Disability category: 614 books
Teacher Education for the Changing Demographics of Schooling
Issues for Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2017
The book takes as its premise the argument that diverse learner groups are a fact of demographic change that should be considered foundational in the preparation of teachers rather than be problematized as a challenge. It promotes the idea of teacher education for inclusive education based on a consideration...
Safeguarding Adults and the Law, Third Edition
An A-Z of Law and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
Safeguarding Adults and the Law, now in its third edition, sets this complex area of work within an extensive legal framework and provides many useful pointers for practitioners and students. It is now in an A-Z format, enabling quick reference to a wide range of civil and criminal law, and to legal...
by Sheila Hollins
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2017
Belonging to a community reduces isolation, gives people meaning and purpose, and can equip people to contribute more fully. To belong to a community means that people recognise you for who you are, care for you and miss you when you are not there.
Going to Church can support people to explore...
Normalisation in Practice
Residential Care for Children with a Profound Mental Handicap
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
First published in 1990, this book was the first informed study to focus on care within the voluntary sector. Written with the child in mind, it is a sensitive work which explores the administration, strategy, and problems facing carers in children’s homes, at that time.
Centring on small,...
by Jane Soslow, Neil Soslow
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
Caroline wants to go to the park with her grandfather, but she needs to ask him several times before he understands what she wants.
He keeps thinking shes asking something about the dark or other words that rhyme with park, but he finally gets the gist, and they set out to enjoy the day together.
As...
Meadowlark Economies: Work and Leisure in the Ecosystem
Work and Leisure in the Ecosystem
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
First Published in 2017. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.
Stuttering Meets Sterotype, Stigma, and Discrimination
An Overview of Attitude Research
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Parents and Young Mentally Handicapped Children
A Review of Research Issues
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
First published in 1986, this book reviews research on the role parents play in fostering the early development of children with mental handicaps. Professionals and parents must work together to give such children the chance of living as ordinary lives as possible and here, the author develops a broadly-based...
The Disabled Schoolchild
A Study of Integration in Primary Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
First published in 1973, this book considers the differences between mainstream schools and special educational needs schools, for children with learning disabilities. It contains a wealth of research data, case history material and reference to existing literature, designed to answer many questions...
Female Olympian and Paralympian Events
Analyses, Backgrounds, and Timelines
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
Female Olympian and Paralympian Events is a groundbreaking book that examines women’s sports in the Olympic and Paralympic Games, which have long been underappreciated and under-analyzed. The book begins with a brief background on women’s participation in the Olympic Games and their role relative...
Working Ethics
How to Be Fair in a Culturally Complex World
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2006
Working Ethics sets out an ethical foundation for professionals and for the professions in a modern, culturally complex society. This book will be of interest to anyone who takes seriously their obligations to society as a whole and to the individuals with whom they work.
Richard Rowson puts...
The Mental Health Survival Guide
Managing the Severities of Multi-Mental Health Diagnosis
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
It's a memoir of Brian's severe struggles associated with coping with a multi-mental **health diagnosis and is full of documented skills, tools and tips he developed as an action plan to cope and manage. The first memoir in a series written to manage chronic illness of body and brain. **
Brian...
by John Cradden
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Born deaf, John Cradden grew up as a 'hearing' person with the help of powerful hearing aids - attending fully mainstream schools, learning no sign language, and having no friends who were also deaf. In his late thirties he went almost completely deaf and decided to get a cochlear implant....
Cinderella Spinderella
the international urban fairytale - where you can choose your Cinderella
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Pick your Cinderella, pick your prince, and enjoy a new “spin” on the classic tale!
“Cinderella Spinderella is the first international illustrated ebook for families that uses today’s technology to give a favorite story a modern message of empowerment!”
"It doesn't matter...