Disability category: 614 books
Upcycling Sheltered Workshops
A Revolutionary Approach to Transforming Workshops into Creative Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
At a time when the traditional sheltered workshop model has fallen under rightful criticism, and a new paradigm for disability programming is not yet in place, Upcycling Sheltered Workshops offers a revolutionary alternative. As many push to dismantle sheltered workshops, Susan Dlouhy and Patty Mitchell...
by Robert A. Scott
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
The disability of blindness is a learned social role. The various attitudes and patterns of behavior that characterize people who are blind are not inherent in their condition but, rather, are acquired through ordinary processes of social learning. The Making of Blind Men is intended as a systematic...
Deaf to the Marrow
Deaf Social Organizing and Active Citizenship in Viet Nam
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
In Deaf to the Marrow, public anthropologist Audrey C. Cooper examines the social production and transformation of ideas about language, bodies, and state-structured educational institutions in southern Viet Nam. Focusing on the reform period (1986 to the present), Cooper describes the ways that signed-language...
Invincible
Stories of Hope and Courage by Individuals with Disabilities
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
The book is a collection of stories that reflects the lives of disabled individuals across the globe. Each story is narrated by a courageous individual who refused to be defined and shaped by a label or a medical diagnosis. These individuals chose life and living instead of doom and gloom. They are...
Imagining Autism
Fiction and Stereotypes on the Spectrum
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
A disorder that is only just beginning to find a place in disability studies and activism, autism remains in large part a mystery, giving rise to both fear and fascination. Sonya Freeman Loftis’s groundbreaking study examines literary representations of autism or autistic behavior to discover what...
Comedy and the Politics of Representation
Mocking the Weak
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2018
This edited collection explores the representations of identity in comedy and interrogates the ways in which “humorous” constructions of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, religion, class and disability raise serious issues about privilege, agency and oppression in popular culture. Should there be...
Disabled Women and Domestic Violence
Responding to the Experiences of Survivors
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Domestic violence is encountered by disabled women more frequently than non-disabled women, yet disabled women are less likely to receive appropriate services, and there has been little research on their experiences and how this problem can be addressed.
This book, drawing on the first UK national...
by Silent.
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
dear reader,
this is more of my mind.. still on disability.
i always keep a notepad handy, as external brain dump.
if i don't write it down it'll roll around, endlessly. or i forget it, immediately.
this collection is comprised of thots which i did(n't) share elsewhere, and perhaps should(n't)...
Visual Impairment and Work
Experiences of Visually Impaired People
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
This book traces the development of paid work for visually impaired people in the UK from the 18th century to the present day. It gives a voice to visually impaired people to talk about their working lives and documents the history of employment from their experience, an approach which is severely...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
Individuals with disabilities that impede their range of motion often have difficulty accessing technologies. With the use of computer-based assistive technology; devices, tools, and services can be used to maintain and improve the functional capabilities of motor disabilities. Assistive Technologies...
Beep
Inside the Unseen World of Baseball for the Blind
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
In Beep, David Wanczyk illuminates the sport of blind baseball to show us a remarkable version of America’s pastime. With balls tricked out to squeal three times per second, and with bases that buzz, this game of baseball for the blind is both innovative and intense. And when the best beep baseball...
by Douglas W Martin, Robert J Barth, James B Talmage
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Complex Regional Pain Syndrome is a controversial issue in medicine. This book provides the most up to date universal review of the construct known as CRPS. The authors review the history of the diagnosis and offer an evidence based criticism regarding the development of the CRPS nomenclature. Chapters...
Community-Oriented Health Services
Practices Across Disciplines
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
Grounded in a transdisciplinary approach, this groundbreaking text provides extensive, evidence-based information on the value of communities as the primary drivers of their own health and well-being. It describes foundational community health concepts and procedures and presents proven strategies...
Learning Difficulties and Sexual Vulnerability
A Social Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
People with learning difficulties are considerably more likely to experience sexual violence than non-disabled people, and for this reason they are often described as 'vulnerable'. However, the use of this label can in fact increase risk.
This book argues that by seeing adults with learning...