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Book Synopsis'A revolution is underway in how we think about human variation. It has the potential to transform the social and political landscape, sweeping away walls and fences that stop so many people from fully participating. Psychotherapy should be in the vanguard of this revolution, but it isn't,' writes Nick Totton in this bold analysis of human difference. His aim is to challenge and also help the reader who self-defines as 'normal'- be they talking therapist, body therapist, client or anyone else - to interrogate their own normality, and hopefully to relinquish the word and all the privileges it brings. It is time, he writes, 'to dismantle that identity, pull down that statue, abandon that high plinth and rest on the solid ground of difference'. Then, he argues, psychotherapy practitioners may be in a position to learn from their clients how best to work with them.The book addresses differences of bodily capacity, gender and lifestyle differences, differences of skin colour and neuro differences. It also tackles differences between the human and non-human beings who inhabit the Earth. Totton's call is for recognition that we share this planet, and that creating standards of 'normality' leads to exclusion as well as inclusion, with all the psychological and other harms that brings.Trade Review'Clinically, this book is a must-read. Nick Totton wants therapists to be aware of their destructive potential if they fail to manage the idea of normality in their work – and in their lives. Some readers might protest that they are just too sophisticated to believe in any such notion. They are wrong. If we are honest, we are often servants of the normal. We ignore the shadow implications when we refer to ‘appropriateness’ or ‘maturity’ or ‘individuation’ or ‘the depressive position’. Crucially, we need to see through the idea of tolerance to recognise that difference and plurality is all there is. Totton has managed once again to blend theory and practice to the benefit of clinicians of all levels of experience. The book is a call for discussion and for action lest we continue to do damage while seeking to do good.'-- Professor Andrew Samuels, author of Persons, Passions, Psychotherapy, Politics -- 'In this radical and beautifully emancipatory work, Nick Totton dismantles the concept of ‘normal people’, shows how the cultural construction of ‘normality’ lurks at the root of multiple forms of social power inequality and alienation, and makes a compelling case for abandoning the whole notion that anyone is ‘normal’ so that we can more fully embrace human variation and equality. Although Totton is a noted psychotherapist and concludes each section of the book with insights on integrating these ideas into therapy, Different Bodies is really for everyone – a must-read for students and professionals in the social sciences, for educators and managers, and for anyone who’s ever thought of themselves as ‘normal’ or worried that they weren’t. Written in clear, friendly, accessible language, this book is a crowning achievement of Totton’s long and brilliant career – a book with the power to change lives and help us to usher in a better tomorrow.' -- Nick Walker, PhD, author of Neuroqueer Heresies -- 'This groundbreaking book offers a necessary re-orientation for body psychotherapy that challenges from the inside notions to do with normativity. I read it with relief, finding in it anchors and stepping stones to explore what inclusivity means from an embodied intersectional perspective. I appreciate the searingly enfleshed way Totton challenges us to look at our biases, reminding us that the main site of oppression is in our bodies, and that our cognitive bias towards the normative body has to be resolutely unpacked so that there is a possibility of critiquing and changing our own somaticism and normativism. I see this work as essential reading for psychotherapy students. It will be on our reading list for sure.' -- Anne Marie Keary , Course leader, Body and Intersectionality, Minster Centre, London -- 'In Different Bodies, Nick Totton takes the bubbling concerns, challenges, identified and unidentified blindspots in perceptions of bodies, gathers the threads and pulls the whole concept of embodiment forward in one agile movement. This book is deft, provocative and refreshingly alive in its engagement with the fast-developing field of thinking about diversity. This is an astute synthesis of ethics, therapy, social justice, philosophy, feminism, queer thinking, anti-racism, disability theory, neurodiversity research, literature, political analysis, ecology and much more… Totton manages the extraordinary feat of being both erudite – with a stunningly broad range of references – and yet very down to earth and clear in his writing. He addresses the complexities, contradictions, and the endemic prejudices that have shaped our modern culture. But – to use his image – he is willing to pull down the statue. He re-examines the foundations and proposes – with humility and full acknowledgement of others’ contributions – new ways of thinking and languaging around many aspects of diversity. This is a book everyone needs to read – it goes so wide that I guarantee no one can say they understand all this or they have heard it before. Nick Totton brings into the foreground the voices of a dynamic, articulate, colourful, rebellious and celebratory countermovement. This is a radical updating of what embodiment means and can be.' -- Roz Carroll, co-editor of What is Normal? Psychotherapists Explore the Question -- 'Different Bodies is an invitation and clarion call to go beyond questioning and reflecting into a far deeper and more vulnerable place of confronting our own pictures and ways of processing. Nick brings everything he has to this invitation – his passion, strength, determination to understand more, his humility and his humanity. He also brings a compassionate understanding of how he, you, they and I can struggle to embrace our much-needed relational development. I experience his book as inviting me into the unknown, over and over. It is a glorious and difficult challenge, framed in the honouring of many writers, thinkers and activists and moving what is seen as the marginal to the centre. I am deeply grateful for Nick's critique and his support for us all to do better.' -- Carmen Joanne Ablack, President of European Association for Body Psychotherapy and Director of Psychotherapy Gestalt Centre London -- 'Nick challenges our concepts of normality, normal bodies, normal brains, normal genders and invites us to examine ourselves, rather than focus on others. Exploring gender and neurodiversity is very on-point, and for therapists this is absolutely essential reading right now. The book is informative and challenging. Heartily recommended! Especially if you are cisgender, heterosexual and neurotypical.' -- Dominic Davies, trainer, clinical sexologist and practice consultant, founder of Pink Therapy -- 'Nick Totton’s Different Bodies is a welcome contribution to psychotherapy. It invites us to question what counts as normal and how ideas about normality impact psychotherapeutic work with clients. Using critical race theory, disability studies, queer theory, transgender studies, body and animal studies, Totton asks what it means to be human. He advocates for a turn to animals and animal studies along with nature to displace ‘human supremacy’ in the psychotherapeutic encounter. This book will be of interest to psychotherapists interested in ethics, environmentalism. and social justice. It will also appeal to those who live by choice, or necessity, outside and apart from white, masculine, cisgender, able-bodied, and heterosexual ideas about normality.' -- Sheila L. Cavanagh, Professor at York University, OntarioTable of ContentsIntroduction, Part 1 - Making a difference, 1. Normality creates difference, 2. Able - to do what? 3. Every body is different (differently) Implications for Therapy - Part 1, Part 2 - Other-wise, 4. Bodies of thought, 5. Different other-wisdoms, 6. Every body is other-wise, Implications for Therapy - Part 2, Part 3 - Becoming plural, 7. Gender trouble, 8. No one is just one, 9. Multiple choice, Implications for Therapy - Part 3, Part 4 - Becoming animal, 10. Homo superior? 11. Joining In, 12. Unseparate, Implications for Therapy - Part 4, Conclusion

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Book SynopsisMore than a century of research has sought to identify the causes of stuttering, describe its nature, and enhance its clinical treatment. By contrast, studies directly focused upon public and professional attitudes toward stuttering began in the 1970s. Recent work has taken this research to new levels, including the development of standard attitude measures; ad­dressing the widely reported phenomena of teasing, bullying, and discrimination against people who stutter; and attempting to change public opinion toward stuttering to more accepting and sensitive levels.Stuttering Meets Stereotype, Stigma, and Discrimination: An Overview of Attitude Research is the only reference work to date devoted entirely to the topic of stuttering attitudes. It features comprehensive review chapters by St. Louis, Boyle and Blood, Gabel, Langevin, and Abdalla; an annotated bibliography by Hughes; and experimental studies by other seasoned and new researchers. The book leads the reader through a maze of research efforts, emerging with a clear understanding of the important issues involved and ideas of where to go next. Importantly, the evidence base for stuttering attitude research extends beyond research in this fluency disorder to such areas as mental illness, obesity, and race. Thus, although of interest primarily to those who work, interact, or oth­erwise deal with stuttering, the book has potential for increasing under­standing, ameliorating negative attitudes, and informing research on any of a host of other stigmatized conditions.

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Book SynopsisPaul W. Ogden has dedicated his life to educating young deaf and hard of hearing people and raising awareness of what it means to be deaf in a hearing world. He has taught and mentored a generation of teachers, and his classic volume, The Silent Garden, has served as a guide for parents and educators for over thirty years. Now he tells his personal story of challenges faced and lessons learned, revealing that the critical, guiding factors for him have always been language and successful communication. Born in a time when many deaf children had no access to language, Paul learned spoken and written language skills at a young age through the painstaking efforts of his mother. His tight-knit family, which included one deaf and two hearing older brothers, facilitated open and constant communication using a variety of methods. His father was a pastor who was involved in the civil rights movement. Despite the family's closeness, his father struggled with depression, an illness that would take the life of one of Paul's brothers. As a student at a residential deaf school where the use of American Sign Language (ASL) was suppressed, Paul continued to build on the speech and lipreading skills he had learned at home. He returned home for high school and graduated as co-valedictorian unaware of the standing ovation he received as he walked to the podium. Following a rewarding experience as an undergraduate at Antioch College, Paul went on to earn a PhD from the University of Illinois, a rare accomplishment for a deaf person at that time. During his graduate studies, he finally had the opportunity to learn ASL. As an award-winning professor of Deaf Studies at California State University, Fresno, he successfully petitioned for the university to recognize ASL as a language, and he established the Silent Garden program, which has grown into a flourishing provider of training and resources to support the Deaf community. In My Life of Language, Paul offers eloquent reflections on both the joyful and difficult periods of his life as he navigated relationships, faced discrimination, questioned his faith, and found great happiness in his marriage.

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Book SynopsisFrench Deaf culture is regarded as a major influence on the formation of other Deaf cultures around the world, notably American Deaf culture. In Elements of French Deaf Heritage, Ulf Hedberg and Harlan Lane document the development of Deaf culture in France by way of Deaf schools, Deaf associations, private and professional networks, publishing, and the arts. This highly visual work captures these forces from the late 18th century through the end of the 19th century, when cultural formation began to shift to cultural maintenance. Encyclopedic in scope, this examination of the evolution of Deaf ethnicity in France aims to disseminate an extensive amount of archival information, now available for the first time in the English language.Trade Review"Readers can relish the richness of French Deaf heritage by reading about early Deaf founders of schools, teachers, artists, writers, and publishers who formed Deaf associations, Deaf congresses and Deaf presses. Maps, tables, and photographic illustrations (both black-and-white and color) enhance the book’s encyclopedic format. An appendix titled 'Ethnicity in the Deaf-World' offers a primer on the book's underlying premise that Deaf minorities constitute unique ethnic groups worldwide...Highly recommended. All readers." -- J. F. Andrews * CHOICE Reviews *

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Book SynopsisLosing her smile to synkinesis after unresolved Bell’s palsy changed how Faye Linda Wachs was seen by others and her internal experience of self. In Metamorphosis, interviewing over one hundred people with acquired facial difference challenged her presumptions about identity, disability, and lived experience. Participants described microaggressions, internalizations, and minimalizations and their impact on identity. Heartbreakingly, synkinesis disrupts the ability to have shared moments. When one experiences spontaneous emotion, wrong nerves trigger misfeel and misperception by others. One is misread by others and receives confusing internal information. Communication of and to the self is irrevocably damaged. Wachs describes the experience as a social disability. People found a host of creative ways to reinvigorate their sense of self and self-expression. Like so many she interviewed, Wachs experiences a process of change and growth as she is challenged to think more deeply about ableism, identity, and who she wants to be.Trade Review“Metamorphosis is an important contribution to sociology of the body, critical disability, and sociology of emotion scholarship, as well as being of interest and use to anyone interested in understanding more about the nuts and bolts of face-to-face communication; Wachs is a gifted writer.”— Travers, author of The Trans Generation: How Trans Kids (and Their Parents) are Creating a Gender Revolution “Metamorphosis is a groundbreaking, nuanced study of the experience of facial paralysis (FP) and synkinesis. This is the first academic book on synkinesis or facial paralysis, and Wachs is the perfect person to write it.”— Kathleen Bogart, director of the Disability and Social Interaction Lab at Oregon State UniversityTable of ContentsContents 1 When Life Gives You Lemons…. Interview Lots of Other People Also With Lemons 2 Theorizing Change: Culture, Identity, and the Face 3 Microaggressions, Internalizations, and Contested Ideological Terrain 4 It's My Face—Why That Matters 5 Disrupted Selves 6 Someone I Would Rather Be 7 Walking Away: The Challenge of Change Acknowledgments Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisLosing her smile to synkinesis after unresolved Bell’s palsy changed how Faye Linda Wachs was seen by others and her internal experience of self. In Metamorphosis, interviewing over one hundred people with acquired facial difference challenged her presumptions about identity, disability, and lived experience. Participants described microaggressions, internalizations, and minimalizations and their impact on identity. Heartbreakingly, synkinesis disrupts the ability to have shared moments. When one experiences spontaneous emotion, wrong nerves trigger misfeel and misperception by others. One is misread by others and receives confusing internal information. Communication of and to the self is irrevocably damaged. Wachs describes the experience as a social disability. People found a host of creative ways to reinvigorate their sense of self and self-expression. Like so many she interviewed, Wachs experiences a process of change and growth as she is challenged to think more deeply about ableism, identity, and who she wants to be.Trade Review“Metamorphosis is an important contribution to sociology of the body, critical disability, and sociology of emotion scholarship, as well as being of interest and use to anyone interested in understanding more about the nuts and bolts of face-to-face communication; Wachs is a gifted writer.”— Travers, author of The Trans Generation: How Trans Kids (and Their Parents) are Creating a Gender Revolution “Metamorphosis is a groundbreaking, nuanced study of the experience of facial paralysis (FP) and synkinesis. This is the first academic book on synkinesis or facial paralysis, and Wachs is the perfect person to write it.”— Kathleen Bogart, director of the Disability and Social Interaction Lab at Oregon State UniversityTable of ContentsContents 1 When Life Gives You Lemons…. Interview Lots of Other People Also With Lemons 2 Theorizing Change: Culture, Identity, and the Face 3 Microaggressions, Internalizations, and Contested Ideological Terrain 4 It's My Face—Why That Matters 5 Disrupted Selves 6 Someone I Would Rather Be 7 Walking Away: The Challenge of Change Acknowledgments Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisSet in the remote, mountainous Guangxi Autonomous Region and based on ethnographic fieldwork, Families We Need traces the movement of three Chinese foster children, Dengrong, Pei Pei, and Meili, from the state orphanage into the humble, foster homes of Auntie Li, Auntie Ma, and Auntie Huang. Traversing the geography of Guangxi, from the modern capital Nanning where Pei Pei and Meili reside, to the small farming village several hours away where Dengrong is placed, this ethnography details the hardships of social abandonment for disabled children and disenfranchised, older women in China, while also analyzing the state’s efforts to cope with such marginal populations and incorporate them into China’s modern future. The book argues that Chinese foster families perform necessary, invisible service to the Chinese state and intercountry adoption, yet the bonds they form also resist such forces, exposing the inequalities, privilege, and ableism at the heart of global family making.Trade Review"Families We Need is a brilliant and warmly empathic book. Written with grace and lucidity, it elevates readers’ understanding of the need for family, and of how neediness can be a source of strength, and even abundance."— Kathie Carpenter, Author of Life in a Cambodian Orphanage "Raffety’s work provides a rare and precious view on foster care and other kinship practices in mountainous Southwest China, showing us their deep entanglements with forces of urbanization and globalization. It reveals how life-transforming care could emerge where the most vulnerable individuals encounter each other, quietly resisting the deeply-seated biases of ableism, classism, and even imperialism. The book exemplifies the most empathic and humanizing type of ethnography."— Zhiying Ma, Assistant Professor at The University of Chicago "Raffety’s work provides a rare and precious view on foster care and other kinship practices in mountainous Southwest China, showing us their deep entanglements with forces of urbanization and globalization. It reveals how life-transforming care could emerge where the most vulnerable individuals encounter each other, quietly resisting the deeply-seated biases of ableism, classism, and even imperialism. The book exemplifies the most empathic and humanizing type of ethnography."— Zhiying Ma, Assistant Professor at The University of Chicago "Families We Need is a brilliant and warmly empathic book. Written with grace and lucidity, it elevates readers’ understanding of the need for family, and of how neediness can be a source of strength, and even abundance."— Kathie Carpenter, Author of Life in a Cambodian OrphanageTable of ContentsPrologue Glossary of People, Places, and Concepts Introduction: Needy Kinship 1 Abandonment, Affinity, and Social Vulnerability 2 Fostering (Whose) Family? 3 Needy Alliances 4 Envying Kinship 5 Replaceable Families? 6 Disruptive Families Conclusion: Families We Need Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSet in the remote, mountainous Guangxi Autonomous Region and based on ethnographic fieldwork, Families We Need traces the movement of three Chinese foster children, Dengrong, Pei Pei, and Meili, from the state orphanage into the humble, foster homes of Auntie Li, Auntie Ma, and Auntie Huang. Traversing the geography of Guangxi, from the modern capital Nanning where Pei Pei and Meili reside, to the small farming village several hours away where Dengrong is placed, this ethnography details the hardships of social abandonment for disabled children and disenfranchised, older women in China, while also analyzing the state’s efforts to cope with such marginal populations and incorporate them into China’s modern future. The book argues that Chinese foster families perform necessary, invisible service to the Chinese state and intercountry adoption, yet the bonds they form also resist such forces, exposing the inequalities, privilege, and ableism at the heart of global family making.Trade Review"Families We Need is a brilliant and warmly empathic book. Written with grace and lucidity, it elevates readers’ understanding of the need for family, and of how neediness can be a source of strength, and even abundance."— Kathie Carpenter, Author of Life in a Cambodian Orphanage "Raffety’s work provides a rare and precious view on foster care and other kinship practices in mountainous Southwest China, showing us their deep entanglements with forces of urbanization and globalization. It reveals how life-transforming care could emerge where the most vulnerable individuals encounter each other, quietly resisting the deeply-seated biases of ableism, classism, and even imperialism. The book exemplifies the most empathic and humanizing type of ethnography."— Zhiying Ma, Assistant Professor at The University of Chicago "Raffety’s work provides a rare and precious view on foster care and other kinship practices in mountainous Southwest China, showing us their deep entanglements with forces of urbanization and globalization. It reveals how life-transforming care could emerge where the most vulnerable individuals encounter each other, quietly resisting the deeply-seated biases of ableism, classism, and even imperialism. The book exemplifies the most empathic and humanizing type of ethnography."— Zhiying Ma, Assistant Professor at The University of Chicago "Families We Need is a brilliant and warmly empathic book. Written with grace and lucidity, it elevates readers’ understanding of the need for family, and of how neediness can be a source of strength, and even abundance."— Kathie Carpenter, Author of Life in a Cambodian OrphanageTable of ContentsPrologue Glossary of People, Places, and Concepts Introduction: Needy Kinship 1 Abandonment, Affinity, and Social Vulnerability 2 Fostering (Whose) Family? 3 Needy Alliances 4 Envying Kinship 5 Replaceable Families? 6 Disruptive Families Conclusion: Families We Need Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book on end of life examines how to include people with intellectual and developmental disability in the inevitability of dying and death. Comprising 17 chapters, it addresses challenging and under-researched topics including suicide, do-not-resuscitate, advance care planning, death doulas and accessible funerals. Topics reflect everyday community, palliative care, hospice and disability services.The book proposes that the rights of people with disabilities should be supported up to and after their death. Going beyond problem identification, the chapters offer positive, evidence-supported responses that translate research to practice, together with practice examples and resources grounded in lived experience. The book is applicable to readers from the disability field, and mainstream health professionals who assist people with disability in emergency care, palliative care or end-of-life planningTable of ContentsChapter 1: Current and New Developments in Death, Dying and End-Of-Life Care Policies and Practices.- Chapter 2: Experience of End-of-Life Issues by People with Intellectual Disability.- Chapter 3: Suicide and Autism: A Lifespan Perspective.- Chapter 4: Advance Care Planning with and for People who have Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.- Chapter 5: Decision-Making at the End of Life: Challenges and Opportunities for People with Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities in Residential Homes in Germany.- Chapter 6: How People with Intellectual Disability are Dying and Implications for Quality Care.- Chapter 7: Living and Dying Well with Dementia.- Chapter 8: Building shared end-of-life supports and cross-training for hospice/palliative and intellectual disability services providers.- Chapter 9: Supporting People with Intellectual Disability at End of Life: Moral Distress among Staff Caregivers During COVID-19.- Chapter 10: Accessible Funerals and People with Intellectual Disability.- Chapter 11: End-of-Life Doulas and People Living with Intellectual and Developmental Disability.- Chapter 12: Palliative and End-of-Life Care for Children with Intellectual Disabilities.- Chapter 13: End-of-life Issues and Support Needs of People with Profound Intellectual and Multiple Disability.- Chapter 14: The Process of Dying.- Chapter 15: Use of Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders.- Chapter 16: Positioning the Issues: An Agenda for Future End-of-life Research, Policy and Practice.- Chapter 17 End-of Life Resources.

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Book SynopsisThis book outlines the development of the Trace R&D Center as an institution for furthering accessible and assistive technologies. The book walks readers through the Center’s nascent attempts to solve individual challenges with augmentative communication devices through contemporary efforts to establish global frameworks and infrastructures for accessibility. This book is premised on the Center’s mission to maximize the potential of people with disabilities by harnessing evolving technologies while at the same time dismantling the barriers created by those same technological advancements. Readers will learn how this has been done in the past and why this practice should be a fundamental and integrated feature in new technology planning and implementation. The book touches on pre-internet technologies before exploring the huge implications of, first, the personal computer and, second, the Internet. In parallel with the massive growth in scale rendered by the launch of the Web, the book traces the expansion of the Center’s focus from the individual to the universal, particularly in working to establish accessibility standards and infrastructures. Learning from the successes and failures of the Center, the book outlines many past challenges and future directions for the development of technologies for people with disabilities from the research and industry perspectives.Table of ContentsTrace Center Origin and Evolution.- Augmentative Communication (1971–).- Pre-Internet/Pre-Web Summative Information (1970s–1990s).- Computer Access (1980–).- Electronic Consumer Products and General Accessibility (1990–).- Web Access (1990–).- Telecommunication Access (1990–).- Kiosks and Information—Transaction Machine Access (1999–).- Accessibility Infrastructure (2010 –).- Move to University of Maryland (2016).- Elements that Have Defined the Trace Center.- Some Lessons Learned from Trace’s First 50 Years.- Trace’s Focus for the Next Decade(s) (2021–).

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Book Synopsis This report reviews international research into the barriers to play for children with disabilities. The authors come from different disciplinary backgrounds, in Sociology, Social Policy, Anthropology, Occupational Health and Education and bring different concerns to this review. They are united, however, in their adoption of a rights-based perspective. The UNCRC and UNCRPD emphasise the right to play for children with disabilities. Play is vital for child development. The problem of 'play deprivation' for many children with disabilities is very real. Yet the right to, and value of 'play for the sake of play', for fun and recreation, must not be forgotten in relation to the lives of children with disabilities. The focus in this report is upon barriers to play that exist beyond the minds and bodies of individual children, within a 'disabling' environment. Barriers include those associated with the design of the built environment, social attitudes and professional practices. The report maps an agenda for further research in this area, emphasising the need for participatory methodologies that capture the views and voices of children with disabilities, their friends and families, on this important issue of play. ABSTRACTING & INDEXING Barriers to Play and Recreation for Children and Young People with Disabilities is covered by the following services: Baidu ScholarBarnes & NobleBayerische StaatsbibliothekBDSBoDBowker Book DataCNKI Scholar (China National Knowledge Infrastructure)DimensionsDOAB (Directory of Open Access Books)EBSCOElsevier – Scopus BooksExLibrisGoogle BooksGoogle ScholarNavigaReadCubeSemantic ScholarTDOne (TDNet)WorldCat (OCLC)X-MOLAdditionally, the proceedings volume is registered and indexed in the Crossref database and accessible on Amazon.

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Book SynopsisAn interdisciplinary survey of disability in socialist states throughout global history. In Re/imaginations of Disability in State Socialism, an interdisciplinary group of scholars examines how disability has been conceptualized and treated in socialist states throughout global history. Drawing on intersectional theories that set disability in conversation with other identity categories such as race, age, gender, and sexuality, this book offers a unique approach to this crucial issue.

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Book SynopsisBirgit Schuhmacher analysiert typische Exklusionsrisiken von Menschen mit Demenz und zeigt auf, wie der in menschenrechtlicher, aber auch in systemtheoretischer Hinsicht universal zu denkende Anspruch auf Inklusion für sie umgesetzt werden kann. Die Autorin untersucht den Bedeutungsgehalt der Begriffe Inklusion, Integration und Teilhabe in unterschiedlichen Disziplinen. In Bezug auf Demenz werden Ausgrenzung und Einbeziehung im (hohen) Alter, in der Familie, im Sozialraum, in rechtlicher Hinsicht und am Ende des Lebens diskutiert.Table of ContentsSozialgeschichte der Demenz.- Demenz als Behinderung des Alters.- Inklusion, Integration oder Teilhabe?.- Container-Begriff Inklusion.- Sozialraum und Demenz

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Book SynopsisWhich theoretical and methodological approaches of contemporary cultural criticism resonate within the field of disability studies? What can cultural studies gain by incorporating disability more fully into its toolbox for critical analysis? Culture - Theory - Disability features contributions by leading international cultural disability studies scholars which are complemented with a diverse range of responses from across the humanities spectrum. This essential volume encourages the problematization of disability in connection with critical theories of literary and cultural representation, aesthetics, politics, science and technology, sociology, and philosophy. It includes essays by Lennard J. Davis, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Dan Goodley, Robert McRuer and Margrit Shildrick.

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Book SynopsisAs the body politics of life writing in the United States change, illness and disability memoirs receive considerable attention. Although these narratives are framed by a lack of health, they abundantly present health and do so beyond its binary relationship to the pathological. This book departs from previous scholarship by bringing into focus the writers' representations of cure, recovery, and healing as well as their reluctance to bring closure to their narratives and align their stories with traditional notions of health. These memoirs thus partake in the construction of alternative narratives of illness and disability.

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Book SynopsisBetween 1990 and 2015, American literature saw the emergence of a new corpus of epilepsy metaphors which tackle the stigma of epilepsy within three areas: society, body, and language. Eleana Vaja introduces concepts such as protometaphors, relational metaphors, epileptic texts, and metastability to categorize and examine these foci further. Applying philosophy as well as "hard sciences" (i.e. mathematics, medicine, physics) to disability studies, her study of selected works by Siri Hustvedt, Thom Jones, Reif Larsen, Dennis Mahagin, Audrey Niffenegger, Rodman Philbrick, and Lauren Slater shows how epilepsy metaphors redefine the notion of the "liminal" and the "normal".

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Book SynopsisLandscape is the impression given by a place. The five senses construct five landscapes: there is not only the visual landscape but also non-visual landscapes such as smell, touch, sound ("sound-scape"), and taste landscapes. The visual landscape is experienced by most people, while the remaining four non-visual landscapes mainly construct the non-visual world of the blind. In their innovative study, Angeliki Koskina and Nikolas Hasanagas explore this non-visual world on an empirical basis. What land-scapes do blind people prefer? Is the natural or built environment most attractive for them? How differently do blind people perceive the landscape" compared to sighted people? Which feelings does the landscape evoke in blind people, and which values do they attach to these feelings? How satisfied do they feel with the urban or natural landscapes where they live? Spatial Planning and Land-scape Design for handicapped people constitute a much-discussed academic and social issue. Koskina's and Hasanagas' study in the Anthropology of Senses and in Landscape Sociology can be used as an aid tool for planners and designers as well as researchers in various areas such as Architecture, Medicine, Social Sciences, or Psychology.Table of ContentsIndex of Diagrams, Figures, and Tables Preface 1. Introduction 2. Methodology 3. Results and Discussion 4. Conclusions, Suggestions, and Limitations Summary References Appendix

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Book SynopsisInternationale Entwicklungen und Impulse fordern dazu auf, Bildungssysteme gerecht und inklusiv auszugestalten. Das vorliegende Buch greift dies auf und fokussiert das häufig unscharf diskutierte Verhältnis zwischen inklusiver Bildung und Bildungsgerechtigkeit. Durch die Zusammenstellung von aktuellen Forschungsergebnissen und theoretischen Beiträgen aus mehreren europäischen Ländern zu dem Thema schaffen die Autor*innen einen übergreifenden Diskussionsrahmen.Table of ContentsMel Ainscow, Gottfried Biewer, Vera Moser: Preface – International Perspectives on Inclusion and Educational Justice Simone Seitz, Petra Auer, Rosa Bellacicco: Introduction – In the Light of Educational Justice: International Perspectives on Inclusion Part I: Conceptualisations Underpinning Research on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Mai-Anh Boger: Political Ontologies of Difference and Their Trilemmatic Structure Anja Tervooren: The Social Category of ‘Disability’ as a Desideratum of Intersectional Childhood Studies Alessandra Imperio, Simone Seitz: Positioning of Children in Research on Assessment Practices in Primary School Michaela Kaiser, Simone Seitz: Giftedness and Achievement within Discourses Part II: Educational Justice within Different Education Systems – Some Empirical Evidence Simone Seitz, Francesca Berti, Catalina Hamacher: Throughout the Day on the Way to More Educational Justice? Children’s Voices on All Day-primary Schooling Petra Auer: On the Inclusiveness of the Education System in a Multination State from the Perspective of Primary School Children and Teachers’ Values Rosa Bellacicco, Silver Cappello: Evidence on Analysis and Reflections of Available Statistical Data in Italy Joanne Banks, Silver Cappello, Heidrun Demo, Rune Hausstätter, Simone Seitz: Funding Models of Inclusion in an International Perspective Part III: Doing Inclusion – Doing Difference Valentina Migliarini: Inclusive Education from the DisCrit Perspective Anna Frizzarin: Adolescents’ Attitudes Towards and Representation of Otherness Petra Auer, Rosa Bellacicco, Dario Ianes: Individual Education Plans as Instruments and Practices for Inclusion: Problems and Dilemmas Heidrun Demo: Conclusion – The Challenge of Integrating Antinomies Around Inclusive Education About the Authors Index of Terms

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Book SynopsisThe contributions in this book shed critical light on the shaping, negotiation, and creation of inclusive conditions of local authorities and localities. The authors analyse policy programs and reflect on their inclusive or exclusive effects in European and non-European contexts. Despite a number of global effects, which come about through supra-locally made decisions and influence the scope of action on the ground, many contributions emphasize the crucial role of the municipal level for a successful realisation of inclusion.

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Book SynopsisBringing the disabled into the mainstreaming process of development will ensure sustainable development and inclusive growth of the country. Their full proof empowerment is the key to the philosophy of inclusion and basic lever of fundamental human rights. Being a democratic country it is our utmost responsibility to provide them all required facilities according to the Kautilayan notion of good governance. The book deals with those pertinent issues in a comprehensive manner and come out with diverse level of policy suggestions.

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Book SynopsisOne in every six persons in Asia and the Pacific has some form of disability. This amounts to 650 million men, women and children. The number is expected to rise over the next decades due to population ageing, natural disasters, chronic health conditions, road traffic injuries, poor working conditions and other factors. This publication presents the region and world with the first regional comprehensive progress report on participation of persons with disabilities in development opportunities. It derives its substance from the midpoint review of the current Asian and Pacific Decade of Persons with Disabilities, 2013-2022, and the implementation of the Incheon Strategy to "Make the Right Real" for Persons with Disabilities in Asia and the Pacific. It provides policymakers across different ministries, as well as civil society and persons with disabilities, with the chance to reflect on the current status of disability-inclusive development in the region, and set forward a path ensuring that persons with disabilities are included and empowered across all dimensions of sustainable development.

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Book SynopsisDisability-inclusive development is an essential condition for a sustainable future. In 2015, the United Nations adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, pledging to leave no one behind in the global efforts to realize the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Without the world's one billion persons with disabilities - 15% of the world population - being included as both agents and beneficiaries of development, these Goals will never be achieved. Yet, persons with disabilities are still invisible and often left behind. This United Nations flagship report is the first publication to address, at the global level, the nexus between disability and the Sustainable Development Goals. It is also the first global analysis based on an unprecedented amount of data, legislation and policies from over 100 countries to understand the socio-economic circumstances of persons with disabilities and the challenges and barriers they face in their daily lives. This report examines new areas, like the role of access to energy to enable persons with disabilities to use assistive technology, for which no global research was previously available. And explores the linkages between the Sustainable Development Goals and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities as well as other international relevant norms and standards relating to disability. Against the backdrop of all the available evidence, the report identifies good practices and recommends urgent actions to be taken for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals by, for and with persons with disabilities. The e-book for this publication has been converted into an accessible format for the visually impaired and people with print reading disabilities. It is fully compatible with leading screen-reader technologies such as JAWS and NVDA.

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Book SynopsisAfter all, awareness and understanding are what lead to acceptance. Something to make this world a more inclusive and isspeshal place.

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Book SynopsisEveryone has the right a standard of living adequate for ... health and well-being..., including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of ... sickness, disability, widowhood, old age.... Universal Declaration of Human Rights , Articles 2, 22, and 25. There are an estimated one billion people, or 15 percent of the world's population, living with a disability, according to the World Health Organization. Despite this, people with disabilities face barriers to inclusion and their needs are often given low priority. Women and children with disabilities are particularly vulnerable to discrimination. They experience multiple discriminationboth from their disability and their age or gender. In many parts of the world, it is common practice to isolate, abuse, and deny basic human rights to these particularly vulnerable groups.

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