Disability: social aspects Books
Nova Science Publishers Inc Health & Wellness of People with Disabilities:
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Financial Literacy for Youth with Disabilities:
Book SynopsisYouth with disabilities face several challenges as they transition out of high school. In addition to the social and emotional challenges associated with moving out of the guidance and supervision of supportive staff, teachers and friends in schools, and leaving home to enter the workforce, youth must be prepared and be able to navigate an increasingly complex world to obtain and maintain employment over the long-term. Among the most pressing issues for youth with disabilities are the development of knowledge and skills with regards to financial independence, money management and an understanding of asset development strategies. All too often, youth with disabilities live in poverty and face barriers to stable employment opportunities. In addition, government programs with confusing and conflicting eligibility criteria make accessing needed support services extremely difficult which often leads to unsuccessful transitions from school to post-secondary education, employment and independent living. Young people with disabilities may want to learn how to save money and build assets, but getting a job and saving a portion of their income may cause them to lose their disability benefits and other important support services, like health care. In order to address these concerns, comprehensive financial literacy programs customized to meet the needs of youth with all types of disabilities is paramount and in a diverse society such as ours, educators and policymakers should reexamine various cultures'' value systems and recognize the importance of guiding youth/disabilities towards moral decisions on humanistic, rather than purely economic bases. This book explores efficacy and overall adequacy of financial literacy programs for youth with disabilities, and highlights promising practices that have been shown to improve participants'' knowledge of money management and asset development strategies. Additionally, it explores the extent to which the "generic" financial literacy curricula and/or educational programs that target nondisabled youth address the needs of youth with disabilities by highlighting gaps in instructional domains and practices in existing programs. Finally, the implications for future research and policies related to financial literacy and employment for youth with disabilities are discussed.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Learning Disabilities in English Language
Book SynopsisNo single method has proven effective in differentiating between English learner students who have difficulty acquiring language skills and those who have learning disabilities. As a result, schools, districts, and states struggle with this issue. Misidentified students can end up in classrooms or programs mismatched to their needs, which could hamper their educational achievement. Research describes key elements of processes that can help identify and suggest appropriate services for English learner students with learning disabilities, and some states incorporate these elements into operational procedures, guidelines, and protocols. This book describes these key elements to inform policymakers interested in developing more effective procedures for identifying, assessing, and supporting English learner students who may have learning disabilities.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Special Education: Developments, Teaching
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Goose Lane Editions Shut Away: When Down Syndrome Was a Life Sentence
Book SynopsisAn explosive book that exposes the abuses of institutionalization."How many brothers and sisters do you have?" It was one of the first questions kids asked each other when Catherine McKercher was a child. She never knew how to answer it.Three of the McKercher children lived at home. The fourth, her youngest brother, Bill, did not. Bill was born with Down syndrome. When he was two and a half, his parents took him to the Ontario Hospital School in Smiths Falls and left him there. Like thousands of other families, they exiled a child with disabilities from home, family, and community.The rupture in her family always troubled McKercher. Following Bill's death in 1995, and after the sprawling institution where he lived had closed, she applied for a copy of Bill's resident file. What she found shocked her.Drawing on primary documents and extensive interviews, McKercher reconstructs Bill's story and explores the clinical and public debates about institutionalization: the pressure to "shut away" children with disabilities, the institutions that overlooked and sometimes condoned neglect and abuse, and the people who exposed these failures and championed a different approach.Trade Review"A gut-wrenching chronicle of a not-so-distant history, when society warehoused its most vulnerable members. With grace and clarity, McKercher turns in a courageous memoir as she investigates what happened to her baby brother Bill, who was born with Down Syndrome in the 1950s. Sent to a "hospital school" from the age of two, Bill becomes the powerful lens through which McKercher explores her family's experience. Unsentimental and unflinching, Shut Away will make you weep for all the Bills and the crucial lessons humanity cannot afford to ignore from his story." -- Carolyn Abraham, author of The Juggler's Children"McKercher's meticulous research and precise, understated prose creates an unforgettable history of children placed in overcrowded, understaffed, and sometimes violent living conditions, and a searingly honest portrait of a family ruptured by the decision to send Bill away. Above all, Shut Away is a moving portrait of a brother." -- Judy McFarlane, author of Writing with Grace: A Journey Beyond Down Syndrome
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Vintage Publishing Metamorphosis: A Life in Pieces
Book SynopsisA darkly comic and moving reflection on what it means to be human in a world where nothing is certain, from the award-winning Oxford professor'The best book about multiple sclerosis'THE TIMES'An outstanding feat'SUNDAY TIMESWe all have trapdoors in our lives. Sometimes we jump off just in time ... But sometimes we are unlucky. My own trapdoor was hidden in the consulting room of an Oxford neurologist.When the trapdoor opened for Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, he plummeted into a world of MRI scans, a disobedient body and the crushing unpredictability of a multiple sclerosis diagnosis. But, like Alice tumbling into Wonderland, his fall did something else. It took him deep into his own mind: his hopes, his fears, his loves and losses, and the books that would sustain, inform and nourish him as his life began to transform in ways he could never have imagined.From Kafka to Barbellion, this is a literary map of the journey from the kingdom of the well to the land of the sick, and forwards into a hopeful future. It's an ode to great writing, to storytelling, to science and to the power of the imagination.Trade ReviewMetamorphosis is the best book I have read about multiple sclerosis, and that is because it is about so much more... It is simply a beautiful piece of writing. * The Times *A pitch-perfect memoir: stylish, erudite, touchingly honest and darkly funny. -- Jacqueline Wilson, author of The Story of Tracy BeakerAn outstanding feat of bravery and brio... A buoyantly written, piercingly perceptive book. * Sunday Times *A beautiful and devastating portrayal of a life-changing diagnosis... It is what the best writing should be: a book that will stay with you for life. -- Natalie Haynes, author of A Thousand ShipsThe writing is all elegance and wit. * The Times, *2023's Top 50 Non-Fiction Books* *An account of living with multiple sclerosis that is both deeply literary and painfully honest as it charts his journey into ill health. * Financial Times, *Summer Reads of 2023* *Heartening and unexpectedly gripping... An immensely powerful book... It persuasively builds the case for the ability of stories to offer hope and solace; to help us become ourselves, over and over, even in extremis. * Spectator *Written by an entertaining storyteller and offers a rare insight into a situation that few people will have to face, but that it does us good to contemplate. * Mail on Sunday *While this book deals with distress, physical pain and uncertainty, its wry humour and lightness of touch make it anything but a misery memoir... Superb. * Times Literary Supplement *Douglas-Fairhurst has written a memoir that is not miserable. It's funny and raw... Magical: pages speed by, fuelled by the author's formidable intellect. * Financial Times, *Book of the Week* *
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Worth Publishing Care for Dying People with Learning Disabilities:
Book SynopsisThe majority of people with learning disabilities are likely to die whilst living in a service setting. This book, written by practitioners in the field, offers practical advice, and aims to raise the awareness of everyone involved in enabling people with learning disabilities to be treated with respect and dignity as they approach death.Table of ContentsPART 1: WHEN WATER BECOMES A GLOBAL COMMODITY: 1. Mountain Water: A Commodity for Saudi Businessmen; 2. England and Wales: Where It All Began; 3. Two Global Giants; 4. The Water War in Cochabamba; 5. Tucuman, Argentina: A Storm of Protest; 6. Among Poor People in Rosario and Buenos Aires; 7. The Privatization Flagship is Sinking; 8. South Africa: Shezi Stole Water. PART 2: PRIVATE ALTERNATIVES: FOR AND AGAINST: 9. Companies and their Strategies; 10. The World Bank Promotes Private Solutions; 11. Ghana faces Public Private Partnerships; 12. Kenya: Twenty Children Wait for a Well; 13. The Global Water Club; 14. Suez and Veolia: We Do Not Intend to Take Any Risks!; 15. The Protest Movement; 16. Local Authorities Not Ripe For Managing the Process; 17. 'Our Goal: Good Public Options'; 18. 'Too Much Secrecy Around GATS'; 19. An Inexhaustible Source of Information; 20. Public-Public Partnerships; 21. Other Voices and Opinions. PART 3: HOW WATER PRIVATISATION EFFECTS PEOPLE IN THE RICH COUNTRIES: 22. Europe: A Growing Market?; 23. Back to England and Wales. PART 4: People and Corporations; 24. Why Care?; 25. A Revealing Stakeholder Report; 26. Water: An Unlimited Fountain of Engagement
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Transcript Verlag Memoirs of Well-Being: Rewriting Discourses of
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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Transcript Verlag Epilepsy Metaphors – Liminal Spaces of
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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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Non–Visual Landscape – Landscape Planning for
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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Pentagon Press Disability Towards Inclusive India
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.
£26.21
HarperCollins Publishers Normal Schmormal
Book Synopsis The heartwarming and hilarious part-memoir, part-guide from comedian and father-of-six Ashley Blaker, on parenting, adoption and raising children with special needs. Trade Review ADVANCE PRAISE ‘A very funny and honest account of Ashley’s extraordinary ordinary life. There is treasure here for all parents, non-parents and children of parents, and that is surely most people.’Alex Horne ‘Great insights and advice for any parent, from a unique and fascinating family and their brilliantly funny dad.’Katy Brand ‘Absolutely hilarious and yet so poignant. This book is going to both entertain and bring comfort to so many people, giving them hope for the future.’Matt Lucas ‘There’s so much love and good energy in this book. It had me smiling from the very first words.’Adam Hills ‘Normal Schmormal is a laugh-out-loud, touching memoir of advice, where embracing the weird becomes something wonderful. Every parent should have a copy.’Emma Kennedy ‘Hilarious, fascinating, and moving. A very special book about a very special family. I laughed and learned so much.’Elis James ‘This is a must read. Ashley Blaker has a special brand of comic magic. His gift is in making the toughest life challenges seem relatable and even joyous.’Rob Rinder ‘Funny and warm hearted, this book is a godsend for neurodivergent parents like me.’Josie Long ‘Inspirational, moving and massively funny. A beautiful schmeautiful book.’David Schneider ‘Ashley is a superb comic writer and this is a brilliantly funny and often incredibly emotional memoir.’David Walliams ‘Full of love, this book is a unique and uplifting document of a remarkable everyday life. God knows how Ashley found time to write it.’Mark Watson ‘Funny, moving and incredibly useful. This book can teach us all something about parenting.’Lucy Porter ‘A vivid record of a father’s love for his children and a plea for others to follow suit, whatever their kids may be like. A gorgeous book.’Jeremy Dyson ‘Chipped away at my ignorance and made me laugh at the same time. A neat trick.’Mike Wozniak
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HarperCollins In Sickness and in Health
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Oxford University Press Disability as Diversity
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Oxford University Press Disability Stigmatization and Childrens Developing Selves
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Oxford University Press DisabilityAffirmative Therapy
Book SynopsisClinicians outside of rehabilitation psychology do not receive training on how to work with clients with disabilities. Nonetheless, given that people with disabilities comprise over 15% of the population, virtually all clinicians will have clients with disabilities in their practice. Without education or training in disability, clinicians are prone to make errors in estimating the role of disability in the presenting problems and the case formulation. Disability-Affirmative Therapy (D-AT) helps clinicians put the disability of a client into proper focus, without making one of the usual mistakes associated with cross-cultural therapy: overinflating the role of the disability, or underestimating its profound effects. D-AT provides a template for evaluation - nine areas to be discussed with the client - that allows understanding of the client''s lifetime experiences with disability. The template is not a theory of therapy, but an overlay onto the therapist''s own approach, thus having broTable of Contents1. Rationale for Disability-Affirmative Therapy and Definitions 2. What Do We Know about Outpatient Psychotherapy with Persons with Disabilities? (Qualitative and Quantitative Studies) 3. Sample Case: "Sam" 4. D-AT I: Current Disability Status - Disability sequelae and their management 5. D-AT II: Developmental History - disability, medical, educational, and advocacy experiences 6. D-AT III: Models of Disability 7. D-AT IV: Context and Intersectionality -- Interplay of Disability with Other Demographic Variables (gender, age, ethnicity, sexual orientation, socio-economic status) 8. D-AT V: Disability Culture and Community 9. D-AT VI: Microaggressions -- Experiences and Effects 10. D-AT VII: Friendships and Social Interactions 11. D-AT VIII: Affective Prescriptions and Prohibitions Imposed on People with Disabilities 12. D-AT IX: Families and Intimate Relationships 13. D-AT Applied to the Case of "Sam"
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Oxford University Press Disability and Disadvantage
Book SynopsisThis book offers a much-needed investigation of moral and political issues concerning disability, and explores how the experiences of people with disabilities can lead to reconsideration of prominent positions on normative issues. Thirteen new essays examine such topics as the concept of disability, the conditions of justice, the nature of autonomy, healthcare distribution, and reproductive choices. The contributors are Norman Daniels, Ellen Daniels Zide, Leslie P. Francis, Christie Hartley, Richard Hull, Guy Kahane, F. M. Kamm, Rosalind McDougall, Jeff McMahan, Douglas MacLean, Susannah Rose, Anita Silvers, Julian Savulescu, Lorella Terzi, David Wasserman, and Jonathan Wolff.Trade ReviewIn this thoughtfully assembled volume on philosophical issues in disability and disadvantage, editors Kimberley Brownlee and Adam Cureton have brought together an exciting mix of established and up and coming philosophers to address issues ranging from how to understand disability to whether and when to create children with disabilities * Rebecca L. Walker, Mind *Disability studies is an exciting and expanding field within philosophy and bioethics, and anyone interested in this rich area of research will find rewarding reading in this volume * Jeffrey Blustein, Journal of Moral Philosophy *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. The welfarist account of disability ; 2. Disability, adaptation and inclusion ; 3. Vagaries of the natural lottery? Human diversity, disability and justice: A capability perspective ; 4. Disability among equals ; 5. An inclusive contractualism: Obligations to the mentally disabled* ; 6. No talent? Beyond the worst off!: A diverse theory of justice for disability ; 7. Understanding Autonomy in Light of Intellectual Disability ; 8. Respect Without Reason: Relating to Alzheimer's ; 9. Radical cognitive limitation ; 10. Disability, discrimination and irrelevant goods ; 11. Ethical constraints on allowing or causing the existence of people with disabilities ; 12. Impairment, flourishing and the moral nature of parenthood ; 13. Projected disability and parental responsibilities
£41.79
Oxford University Press Deaf Around the World
Book SynopsisDeaf around the World is a compendium of work by scholars and activists on the creation, context, and form of sign languages, and on the social issues and civil rights of Deaf communities. Renowned contributors such as James Woodward, Yerker Andersson, and Paddy Ladd offer new histories and overviews of major topics. Each chapter is followed by a response from a pre-eminent thinker in the field. The volume includes studies of sign languages and Deaf communities in Australia, Brazil, Britain, China, France, Germany, Ghana, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Myanmar, Nicaragua, South Africa, Southeast Asia, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States.Trade Reviewan extremely valuable publication which certainly delivers a global perspective on Deafhood * Sara Louise Wheeler, British Sociological Association *this book is a good example of how sign language research and deaf empowerment can and should go hand in hand, and would have great value as a set text in sign linguistics and deaf studies classes. * Connie de Vos and Nick Palfreyman, Journal of Linguistics *Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION: WHY GO AROUND THE DEAF WORLD? GAURAV MATHUR AND DONNA JO NAPOLI; 1: SIGN LANGUAGE GEOGRAPHY CAROL A. PADDEN; 1 RESPONSE: SOME OBSERVATIONS ON RESEARCH METHODOLOGY IN LEXICOSTATISTICAL STUDIES OF SIGN LANGUAGES JAMES WOODWARD; 2: TWO TYPES OF NONCONCATENATIVE MORPHOLOGY IN SIGNED LANGUAGES GAURAV MATHUR AND CHRISTIAN RATHMANN; 2 RESPONSE: SOME OBSERVATIONS ON FORM-MEANING CORRESPONDENCES IN TWO TYPES OF VERBS IN ASL PAUL DUDIS; 3: SOURCES OF HANDSHAPE ERROR IN FIRST-TIME SIGNERS OF ASL DEBORAH CHEN PICHLER; 3 RESPONSE: MODALITY AND LANGUAGE IN THE SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION OF AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE RUSSELL S. ROSEN; 4: GETTING TO THE POINT: HOW A SIMPLE GESTURE BECAME A LINGUISTIC ELEMENT IN NICARAGUAN SIGNING ANN SENGHAS AND MARIE COPPOLA; 4 RESPONSE: A POINT WELL TAKEN: ON THE TYPOLOGY AND DIACHRONY OF POINTING ROLAND PFAU; 5: ACQUISITION OF TOPICALIZATION IN VERY LATE LEARNERS OF LIBRAS: DEGREES OF RESILIENCY IN LANGUAGE SANDRA K. WOOD; 5 RESPONSE: A CRITICAL PERIOD FOR THE ACQUISITION OF A THEORY OF MIND? CLUES FROM HOMESIGNERS CYRIL COURTIN; 6: INTERROGATIVES IN BAN KHOR SIGN LANGUAGE: A PRELIMINARY DESCRIPTION ANGELA M. NONAKA; 6 RESPONSE: VILLAGE SIGN LANGUAGES - A COMMENTARY ULRIKE ZESHAN; 7: SIGN LANGUAGE HUMOUR, HUMAN SINGULARITIES, AND THE ORIGINS OF LANGUAGE DONNA JO NAPOLI AND RACHEL SUTTON-SPENCE; 7 RESPONSE: GESTURE FIRST OR SPEECH FIRST IN LANGUAGE ORIGINS? ADAM KENDON; 8: BEST PRACTICE FOR COLLABORATING WITH DEAF COMMUNITIES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES AMY WILSON AND NICKSON KAKIRI; 8 RESPONSE: DEAF MOBILIZATION AROUND THE WORLD: A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE YERKER ANDERSSON; 9: HIV/AIDS AND THE DEAF COMMUNITY: A CONVERSATION LEILA MONAGHAN AND DEBORAH KARP; 9 RESPONSE: HIV AIDS AND DEAF COMMUNITIES IN SOUTH AFRICA: A CONVERSATION JOHN MELETSE AND RUTH MORGAN; 10: THE LANGUAGE POLITICS OF JAPANESE SIGN LANGUAGE (NIHON SHUWA) KAREN NAKAMURA; 10 RESPONSE: PLURALIZATION: AN ALTERNATIVE TO JSL HEGEMONY SOYA MORI; 11: SOCIAL SITUATIONS AND THE EDUCATION OF DEAF CHILDREN IN CHINA JUN HUI YANG; 11 RESPONSE: SOCIAL SITUATIONS AND THE EDUCATION OF DEAF CHILDREN IN INDIA MADAN M. VASISHTA; 12: DO DEAF CHILDREN EAT DEAF CARROTS? PAUL SCOTT; 12 FIRST RESPONSE: "WE'RE THE SAME, I'M DEAF, YOU'RE DEAF, HUH!" DONNA WEST
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Oxford University Press Inc Mental Health and Deafness
Book SynopsisThe assessment and treatment of mental health concerns for Deaf individuals has been largely ignored and/or misunderstood by many mental health professionals. In Mental Health and Deafness, Margaret du Feu and Cathy Chovaz seek to rectify this by outlining current issues surrounding mental health and deafness. The book provides valuable information to professionals interested in expanding their knowledge of mental health and deafness, and the authors share their extensive clinical experience with the reader through a variety of case studies. The authors primarily focus on individuals who were born deaf or deafened early in life, but also describe the mental health aspects of acquired deafness and individuals with both deafness and blindness. Mental Health and Deafness begins by describing the historical and social context of deafness, and follows the life journey of a Deaf individual, focusing on parental reactions, language acquisition, and mental health disorders of children, adolescTrade Review...geared toward clinicians such as family physicians, psychologists, psychiatrists, and social workers who have little experience working with Deaf people...readers can expect to come away with a good basic understanding of mental health considerations when working with Deaf patients * Amanda OHearn, Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Chapter 1. Deafness: The Facts ; Chapter 2. Deaf People in Society ; Chapter 3. Deaf Children: The Beginning ; Chapter 4. Psychological Development of Deaf Children ; Chapter 5. Educational Issues ; Chapter 6. Adolescence ; Chapter 7. Deaf Children and Adolescents: Assessment ; Chapter 8. Deaf Children and Adolescents: Mental Health Disorders ; Chapter 9. Deaf Children and Adolescents: Treatment ; Chapter 10. Mental Health of Deaf Adults: Introduction ; Chapter 11. Deaf Adults: Assessment ; Chapter 12. Physical and Organic Disorders & Intellectual Disability ; Chapter 13. Schizophrenia ; Chapter 14. Mood Disorders ; Chapter 15. Other Disorders ; Chapter 16. Deafened People: Mental Health ; Chapter 17. Deafblind People: Mental Health ; Chapter 18. Older Deaf Adults: Mental Health ; Chapter 19. Legal and Forensic Issues ; Chapter 20. Deaf Adults: Treatment ; Chapter 21. Services
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Palgrave Macmillan A Full Life with Autism From Learning to Forming Relationships to Achieving Independence
Book SynopsisIn this ground-breaking book, autism expert Chantal Sicile-Kira and her son Jeremy take on the challenge of planning for the full lifespan. Working together and drawing on the insights of others facing the same challenges, they offer real solutions to a host of difficult questions.Trade ReviewPraise for Autism Life Skills: 'Chantal Sicile-Kira has done a beautiful job of putting the voices of many people on the spectrum into one book.' - Temple Grandin, author of Animals in Translation and Thinking in PicturesTable of ContentsJeremy's Story - Making the Impossible Possible Seeing the Potential of Your Child and Helping Them Realize it Circle of Support - Absolute Necessity of Creating a Support Group Having a Fulfilling Emotional Life Finding the Right Living Arrangements - From In-house Care to Independence The Joy of Learning - Creating the Right Educational Environment Personal Needs: Friends, Relationships, and Love & Sex Search for Normalcy - Gauging Success for Yourself Planning for the Future
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Palgrave Macmillan Contours of Ableism The Production of Disability and Abledness
Book SynopsisChallenging notions of what constitutes 'normal' and 'pathological' bodies, this ambitious, agenda-setting study theoretically reinvigorates disability studies by reconceptualising it as 'studies of ableism' focusing on the practices and formations of able-bodiedness to uncover what it means to be 'able' rather than 'disabled'.Table of ContentsForeword by Professor Dan Goodley PART I: COGITATING ABLEISM The Project of Ableism Internalized Ableism: The Tyranny Within Tentative Disability: Mitigation and its Discontents Love Objects and Transhuman Beasts?: Riding the Technologies PART II: SPECTRES OF ABLEISM The Deaf Trade: Selling the Cochlear Implant Print Media Representations of the 'Unco-operative' Patient: The Case of Clint Hallam Disability Matters: Embodiment, Teaching& Standpoint Pathological Femaleness: Disability Jurisprudence& Ontological Envelopment Disability Harm& Wrongful Life Torts Searching for Subjectivity: The Enigma of Devoteeism, Conjoinment and Transableism Afterword: From Disability Studies to Studies in Ableism?
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Penguin Random House LLC Design Meets Disability The MIT Press
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Reconstructing Motherhood and Disability in the
Book SynopsisExamining mothers of newly diagnosed disabled children within the context of new reproductive technologies and the discourse of choice, this book uses anthropology and disability studies to revise the concept of normal and to establish a social environment in which the expression of full lives will prevail.Trade Review"I think the audience for this book would be very wide from interested lay persons to medical anthropologists/sociologists. Also this is an important topic for medical professionals and public health scholars. It does offer a critical perspective as well – which does not dominate the book - but is very important for many scholars. I also think it is highly readable and would be of interest to students – upper level undergraduates to graduate students (for example I would use this book in my Medical anthropology course - 300 level)." Michael J. Oldani, Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, WhitewaterTable of Contents1: Introduction 2: Doing Everything Right: Choice, Control and Mother Blame 3: Diminished Motherhood 4: Mothers, Doctors and Developmental Delays: On Personhood and the Emplotment of Children’s Lives 5: The Child as Giver: Mothers’ Critique of the Commodification of Babies 6: Mothers, Models, and Disability Rights
£215.09
Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale Unmasking Autism
Book SynopsisA deep dive into the spectrum of Autistic experience and the phenomenon of masked Autism,giving individuals the tools to safely uncover their true selves while broadening society?snarrow understanding of neurodiversity?A remarkable work that will stand at the forefront of the neurodiversity movement.??Barry M. Prizant, PhD, CCC-SLP, author of Uniquely Human: A Different Way of Seeing AutismFor every visibly Autistic person you meet, there are countless ?masked? Autistic people who pass as neurotypical. Masking is a common coping mechanism in which Autistic people hide their identifiably Autistic traits in order to fit in with societal norms, adopting a superficial personality at the expense of their mental health. This can include suppressing harmless stims, papering over communication challenges by presenting as unassuming and mild-mannered, and forcing themselves into situations that cause severe anxiety, all so they aren?t seen as needy or ?odd.?In Unmasking Autism, Dr. Devon Price shares his personal experience with masking and blends history, social science research, prescriptions, and personal profiles to tell a story of neurodivergence that has thus far been dominated by those on the outside looking in. For Dr. Price and many others, Autism is a deep source of uniqueness and beauty. Unfortunately, living in a neurotypical world means it can also be a source of incredible alienation and pain. Most masked Autistic individuals struggle for decades before discovering who they truly are. They are also more likely to be marginalized in terms of race, gender, sexual orientation, class, and other factors, which contributes to their suffering and invisibility. Dr. Price lays the groundwork for unmasking and offers exercises that encourage self-expression, including:?Celebrating special interests?Cultivating Autistic relationships?Reframing Autistic stereotypes?And rediscovering your valuesIt?s time to honor the needs, diversity, and unique strengths of Autistic people so that they no longer have to mask?and it?s time for greater public acceptance and accommodation of difference.In embracing neurodiversity, we can all reap the rewards of nonconformity and learn to live authentically, Autistic and neurotypical people alike.
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iUniverse Yes We Made It The Story of New Horizons how people with severe disabilitiesin a chronic care hospitalworked their way to independence
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iUniverse Independent Living for Physically Disabled People
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iUniverse Getting It Persuading Organizations and Individuals to Be More Comfortable with People with Disabilities
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iUniverse Damn Bunch of Cripples My Politically Incorrect Education in Disability Awareness
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iUniverse Autistic Symphony
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group When the Mind Hears
Book SynopsisThe authoritative statement on the deaf, their education, and their struggle against prejudice.
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Random House Children's Books Helen Keller Courage in the Dark Step Into
Book SynopsisWhen a childhood illness leaves her blind and deaf, Helen Keller's life seems hopeless indeed. But her indomitable will and the help of a devoted teacher empower Helen to triumph over incredible adversity. This amazing true story is finally brought to the beginner reader level.
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AuthorHouse Alpine Achievement A Chronicle of the United States Disabled Ski Team
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AuthorHouse Not Once Not Twice But Three Times Being an Advocate for Childrens Hidden Disabilities and 504 Plans
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Random House Publishing Group Crashing Through The Extraordinary True Story of the Man Who Dared to See
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Wayne State University Press Disability Deformity and Disease in the Grimms Fairy Tales
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Copious Hosting A Theology of Access for People with Disabilities
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