Disability category: 614 books
Violence Against Women
Vulnerable Populations
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2009
Violence Against Women: Vulnerable Populations investigates under-researched and underserved groups of women who are particularly vulnerable to violent victimization from an intimate male partner. In the past, there has been an understandable reluctance to address this issue to avoid stereotyping...
Managing Their Own Affairs
The Australian Deaf Community in the 1920s and 1930s
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Managing Their Own Affairs explores how Deaf organizations and institutions were forged in Australia during the early 20th century. During this period, deaf people challenged the authority of the dominant welfare organizations, or Deaf Societies, which were largely controlled by hearing people and...
by Dave Sherratt, Melanie Peter
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Learning through play is a well-established principle that underpins much educational practice, yet it is often overlooked in association with children with autistic spectrum disorders. This book considers the wide-ranging benefits of developing play and taking it into drama with these children. The...
by Erez Bitton
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
This first US publication of Erez Bitton, one of Israel's most celebrated poets, recalls the fate of Moroccan Jewish culture with poems both evocative and pure. Considered the founding father of Mizrahi Israeli, a major tradition in the history of Hebrew poetry, Bitton's bilingual collection dramatically...
Disabilities in Nigeria
Attitudes, Reactions, and Remediation
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
The book examines issues of disabilities in Nigeria focusing on attitudes and reactions to people with disabilities within the context of practices perpetuating the treatment of people with disabilities. It contributes to research in the field by advancing discussions on society’s positive engagement...
Deaf Subjects
Between Identities and Places
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
In this probing exploration of what it means to be deaf, Brenda Brueggemann goes beyond any simple notion of identity politics to explore the very nature of identity itself. Looking at a variety of cultural texts, she brings her fascination with borders and between-places to expose and enrich our...
Land of Stone
Breaking Silence Through Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2007
For more than a decade, Karen Chase taught poetry writing to severely incapacitated patients at a large psychiatric hospital outside of New York City. During that time, she began working with Ben, a handsome, formerly popular and athletic young man who had given up speaking and had withdrawn from...
Captain English's Legacy
The Englishton Park Children's Program
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
Captain Englishs Legacy is about a wealthy and concerned Indiana business leader of the early 1900s who leaves the grounds of his summer home in Southeast Indiana as a place to work with indigent children having problems as his final heritage. Years later, on these very grounds, a program working...
Supporting Disabled People with their Sexual Lives
A Clear Guide for Health and Social Care Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
Many health and social care professionals today feel untrained, fearful and ill-equipped to support their disabled patients, clients and service users in their sexual lives. The result is that disabled people can be left feeling frustrated and afraid that their sexual needs will be forever unrecognised...
by John Lee Clark
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
This celebration of short stories, poems, and essays gives us a glimpse into the Deaf signing community, something that literature by hearing authors featuring deaf characters has rarely done. Between these covers, a Deaf couple fights over their son’s language use, an Australian woman joins the...
Just Vibrations
The Purpose of Sounding Good
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
Modern academic criticism bursts with what Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick once termed paranoid readings—interpretative feats that aim to prove a point, persuade an audience, and subtly denigrate anyone who disagrees. Driven by strategies of negation and suspicion, such rhetoric tends to drown out softer-spoken...
by Diana M. Millard
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
First published in 1984, this book focuses on the support and reassurance needed by parents of children with handicaps. It provides a practical guide in relation to daily care and is equally as relevant to professionals, therapists, teachers, doctors and psychologists who must advise parents.
Written...
Reservation
A Quest for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
This book deals with the issue of reservations in educational institutions and public services as a means to secure justice to the backward classes. It takes into account all the relevant provisions of the Constitution in their proper perspective in the light of judicial pronouncements and intellectual...
A Girl and Five Brave Horses (Rediscovered Books)
With linked Table of Contents
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2014
A Girl and Five Brave Horses is the story of Sonora Carver and was the basis for the movie Wild Hearts Can't be Broken. Carver answered the following want ad: Wanted: Attractive young woman who can swim and dive. Likes horses, desires to travel. See Dr. W. F. Carver, Savannah Hotel. From there she...