Disability category: 614 books
Rethinking Madness
Towards a Paradigm Shift in Our Understanding and Treatment of Psychosis
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
As the research continues to accumulate, we find that the mainstream understanding of schizophrenia and the other related psychotic disorders has lost virtually all credibility. We've learned that full recovery is not only possible, but may actually be the most common outcome given the right conditions....
Pig Pills Inc
The Anatomy of an Academic and Alternative Health Fraud
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
The bizaree story of Truehope/Synergy and their vitamin concoction E M Power Plus that is alleged to "cure" all mental illnesses. The history from the inception, the raid of their headquarters by the RCMP, their ongoing battle with the Canadian government and some of the horror stories from those who tried the "cure".
The Lives of Chang and Eng
Siam's Twins in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
Connected at the chest by a band of flesh, Chang and Eng Bunker toured the United States and the world from the 1820s to the 1870s, placing themselves and their extraordinary bodies on exhibit as "freaks of nature" and "Oriental curiosities." More famously known as the Siamese...
Inclusion or Illusion?
Educational Provision for Primary School Children with Mild General Learning Disabilities
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2009
The aim of Inclusion or Illusion is to provide readers with an understanding of educational provision in our primary schools for children with Mild General Learning Disabilities (MGLD) (over half the school-going special needs population). It is a book is for teachers, student teachers, policy makers...
by Katheryn Maddox Haddad
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Handicapped? Wanting to do good works for others anyway?
Too busy to add good works to your already cluttered life?
What do you say when a friend’s relative dies?
Wonder how to handle gossip, baby showers, mean bosses, etc. in the work place?
Do the poor in other countries bother you?
Want to teach...
by David H. Hendrickson
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
“I realize how fortunate I was to spend the first half of my life with a passion, thanks to my hockey career. It took me a while to realize it, but now I feel fortunate to have lived the second half of my life with a purpose.”
– Travis Roy
The dream goes from euphoric reality to tragic...
Disabled Students in Education
Technology, Transition, and Inclusivity
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
There can be little doubt that the rapid technological developments that have characterized the decades since the middle of the 19th century have given great scope for improving the quality of life of disabled people. Disabled Students in Education: Technology, Transition, and Inclusivity reports...
by Tiffany Fawn Jones
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
In the late 1970s, South African mental institutions were plagued with scandals about human rights abuse, and psychiatric practitioners were accused of being agents of the apartheid state. Between 1939 and 1994, some psychiatric practitioners supported the mandate of the racist and heteropatriarchal...
What I Know
Lessons from my 30 years of Quadriplegia
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
At 11:15 p.m. on Friday, September 23, 1983, the life of 18-year-old Barbara Turnbull changed drastically. Three armed robbers burst into the Mississauga Becker's store where she was working the late shift, shooting her and severing her spinal cord. Turnbull almost lost her life, but survived a quadriplegic....
From Career Woman to Crippled and Beyond
A Journey of Loss, Longing, Learning and Laughter
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
This book takes a first-hand look at the struggles of two women working to break through the glass ceiling. But at the height of their careers, they crash due to illness. The way they initially broke through the glass ceiling and then crashed down to earth and rebuilt their identities is a good reading...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
Forty-five contributions from renowned international specialists in the field provide readers with expert analysis of the core issues related to the welfare state, including regional depictions of welfare states around the globe. The second edition of the Routledge Handbook of the Welfare State combines...
by Michael Mandelstam
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
This short guide cuts through the confusing mass of legislation to provide a concise and jargon-free explanation of current community care practice and the law.
In clear and simple language, it explains the legislation directly relevant to practitioners, including: rules about how people in...
by Robert Rushton
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
This eBook describes numerous afflictions, their modern treatment, and their Ancient Treatment before the invention of antibiotics. It also has some stories and anecdotes to enliven the text.
Show of Hands
A Natural History of Sign Language
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Most scholarly speculation on the origin of human language has centered around speech. However, the growing understanding of sign languages on human development has transformed the debate on language evolution. David F. Armstrong’s new book Show of Hands: A Natural History of Sign Language casts...