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Gallaudet University Press,U.S. Paris in America – A Deaf Nanticoke Shoemaker and
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Gallaudet University Press A Phone of Our Own – The Deaf Insurrection
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Rutgers University Press Metamorphosis: Who We Become after Facial
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
£127.30
Rutgers University Press Metamorphosis: Who We Become after Facial
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
£26.35
Rutgers University Press Families We Need: Disability, Abandonment, and
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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Rutgers University Press Families We Need: Disability, Abandonment, and
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
£107.20
Books on Demand Le Courage et la vie
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De Gruyter Vorurteile
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£113.52
Kohlhammer Selbstbestimmte Lebensfuhrung Und Teilhabe:
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£28.90
Kohlhammer Der Umgang Mit Behinderung: Besonderheit Und
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Kohlhammer Schon Immer 'Irgendwie Anders': 12
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Kohlhammer Der Verstellte Blick: Verhaltensauffalligkeiten
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£38.40
Duncker & Humblot Die Durchsetzungsfahigkeit Der Interessenverbande
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£79.92
Campus Verlag Re/imaginations of Disability in State Socialism:
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.
£38.00
Vdf Hochschulverlag AG Accessible research and teaching at universities
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£18.90
Verlag Barbara Budrich Inclusive Localities
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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Oxford University Press Inc Shared Musical Lives Philosophy Disability and
Book SynopsisShared Musical Lives makes the case for the epistemological and ethical significance of musical experience, discussing the concept of sonification in the context of disability in order to challenge and broaden existing conceptions of disability and music and provide new ways of thinking about the philosophies of music and disability.Trade ReviewThis beautiful, profound book explores what happens when we make music together—as composers, improvisers, performers, or listeners. We learn something about ourselves and others and, when the musical worlds we create together include people with disabilities, the knowledge we gain may be ethically important. This is a moving meditation on the power of musical experience to deepen our sense of ourselves and our common humanity. * Joseph Straus, Distinguished Professor of Music, CUNY Graduate Center *This rich and sensitive philosophical discussion of 'musicking' brings to the fore the experience of cognitive disability. Carlson brings her important philosophical work on cognitive disability together with her own experience as a musician to create a broad ranging discussion of the importance of the 'musical we' in recognizing the humanity in the other. At the same time, she cautions us against overgeneralizations and seemingly universalizing claims that are likely to reinstate exclusions and prejudices. This is a wonderful read, full of thoughtful reflection and illuminating examples of 'the sonification' of the subject that shows us how musicking is a means to enlarge our experience of being human. * Eva Feder Kittay, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Emerita, Stony Brook University/SUNY *Shared Musical Lives brings us a source of joy, comfort, and rejuvenation at a time when all of us need a clearer understanding of what it means to be human. Licia Carlson gives us a remarkably humane philosophical meditation on the cultural vibrancy of disability arts and its potential to infuse dignity and meaning into lives often misunderstood and underappreciated. Carlson's book calls us to witness and appreciate the political, ethical, and healing force of music for everyone. * Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Professor of English and Bioethics, Emerita, Emory University *Table of ContentsPandemic Preface Sonification: An Overture Chapter 1: A Brief Taxonomy of Musical Others Chapter 2: Musical Selves Chapter 3: The Epistemic Force of Musical Encounters Chapter 4: Wordlessness is not Worldlessness: A Lyrical Interlude Chapter 5: The Musical We Conclusion: Musical Worlds Index
£91.55
Columbia University Press Mapping Careers with LD and ADD Clients
Book SynopsisA guidebook for career counselors and employers to help them deal productively with LD/ADD adults. This book is useful as a supplementary text for graduate courses in career counseling. It synthesizes the two fields of LD/ADD diagnosis and career assessment into a methodology and provides background knowledge.Table of Contents1: Invisible Handicaps 2: Process and Structure 3: Diagnosis of Language Disability in Adults 4: Memory Problems Visual/Spatial Deficits, and Dyscalculia 5: Emotional and Social Dynamics in the LD Client 6: Cognitive Function in ADD Adults 7: Emotional and Social Dynamics in ADD Adults 8: The Therapeutic Approach to the Career Assessment 9: Methodology for the Career Assessment 10: Personality Assessment of ADD Clients Using the MMPI-2 16 PF, and MBTI Tests 11: Selecting a Good-Fit Job 12: Job Coaching for LD and ADD Clients 13: Case Studies of Clients with Language Disabilities 14: Case Studies of Clients with a Memory Disorder 15: Case Studies of Clients with Attention Deficit Disorder
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Random House USA Inc In a Different Key The Story of Autism
Book SynopsisPULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Sweeping in scope but with intimate personal stories, this is a deeply moving book about the history, science, and human drama of autism.”—Walter Isaacson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Code Breaker “Remarkable . . . A riveting tale about how a seemingly rare childhood disorder became a salient fixture in our cultural landscape.”—The Wall Street Journal (Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Year) The inspiration for the PBS documentary, In a Different Key In 1938, Donald Triplett of Forest, Mississippi, became the first child diagnosed with autism. Beginning with his family’s odyssey, In a Different Key tells the extraordinary story of this often misunderstood condition, from the civil rights battles waged by the families of those who have it to the fierc
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Heinemann USA From Disability to Possibility
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WW Norton & Co The Body Silent
Book SynopsisRobert Murphy was a professor of anthropology at Columbia before he developed a spinal tumour that progressed into quadriplegia. Here, he explores society's fears, myths and misunderstanding about disability, and the effect they have on the disabled person's identity and social standing.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Children with Disabilities
Book SynopsisThis Monograph presents a longitudinal investigation of child development and family well-being during the first decade of life for children with Down syndrome, motor impairment, or developmental delay of uncertain etiology. The findings suggest that changes in selected policies and practices can improve outcomes for children with disabilities and their parentsTable of ContentsAbstract. Part I: Introduction. Part II: The Development of Children with Disabilities and the Adaptation of their Parents: Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Evidence. Part III: The Early Intervention Collaborative Study: Study Design and Methodology. Part IV: Results: Predictors of Functioning and Change in Children's Development and Parent Well-being. Part V: Discussion. Part VI: Implications for Research, Policy, and Practice References. Acknowledgments. Commentary. Authors and Contributors. Statement of Editorial Policy
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Harvard University Press Inside Deaf Culture
Book SynopsisIn this absorbing story of the changing life of a community, the authors of Deaf in America reveal historical events and forces that have shaped the ways that Deaf people define themselves today. Inside Deaf Culture relates Deaf people's search for a voice of their own, and their proud self-discovery and self-description as a flourishing culture.Trade ReviewThis well-organized and clearly written book provides a fascinating inside look at the development of Deaf culture… Padden and Humphries’s presentation of these marvelous insights into the history and development of the language and beliefs of the Deaf should be viewed as a welcome step in the quest to inform the hearing world of the rich and fertile culture of the authors’ beloved community. -- Susan Waltzman * New England Journal of Medicine *Inside Deaf Culture is a fascinating account of the rise of group identity among deaf people… Padden and Humphries shed light on the rise of Deaf schools, social clubs and theaters from the mid-19th to the mid-20th centuries—a history that is unknown to many. -- Jeremy Funk * Christian Century *Carol Padden and Tom Humphries have done it again—and readers everywhere should be grateful. Almost twenty years ago, Padden and Humphries helped transform the nascent and promising field of deaf history with their path-breaking and still relevant book, Deaf in America: Voices from a Culture. In their current work, Padden and Humphries further explore formative ‘cultural moments’ in the deaf community—what they describe as the generative ideas and influences that shape how deaf people identify themselves… This book is a valuable exploration of the deaf community. -- Robert M. Buchanan * American Historical Review *What a bold and courageous book! Carol Padden and Tom Humphries shed light on significant moments in the history of the American Deaf community. They show how struggles for power and dominance have run through their experience for more than a century, from coercive methods of teaching language to efforts of modern science to ‘correct’ and possibly even eliminate deafness—and with it, Deaf culture. -- Glenn Anderson, Professor and Director of Training, University of Arkansas Rehabilitation Research & Training Center for Persons Who Are Deaf or Hard of HearingInside Deaf Culture is a valuable addition to the growing collection of historical material about the Deaf community in the United States of America. It will add much to a better understanding of who we Deaf people are. -- Jack Gannon, author of Deaf HeritageWith writing remarkable for its grace, simplicity, and clarity, Padden and Humphries hold Deaf culture before our eyes for many faceted inspection. This book will be enormously important to ASL teachers, to teachers of Deaf studies, and to Deaf and hearing people who want to understand the Deaf World. -- Harlan Lane, author of A Journey into the Deaf-WorldTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Lens of Culture 1. Silenced Bodies 2. An Entirely Separate School 3. The Problem of Voice 4. A New Class Consciousness 5. Technology of Voice 6. Anxiety of Culture 7. The Promise of Culture 8. Cultures into the Future Notes References Acknowledgments Index
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Square One Publishers Talking with Your Hands Listening with Your Eyes
Book SynopsisAMERICA''S #1 ASL REFERENCE BOOK - OVER 75,000 COPIES SOLD!After English and Spanish, it is the third most common language in North America. Over 22 million people use it to communicate. It has its own beauty, its own unmistakable form, and its own inherent culture. It is American Sign Language (ASL), the language of the deaf.Gabriel Grayson has put together a book that makes signing accessible, easy, and fun. Using almost 1,400 photographs, he has created a comprehensive primer to the techniques, words,and phrases of signing. Each word or phrase is accompanied by a photo or series of photos that show hand and body motions and facial expressions. Along with the images are step-by-step instructions for forming the sign, as well as a helpful ?Visualize? tip that connects the sign with its meaning for easier recall.After examining the fascinating history and nature of both sign language and the deaf community, Talking With Your Hands, Listening With Your Eyesexplains signing basics, covering such topics as handshapes, fingerspelling, signing etiquette, and more. The remaining chapters provide over 1,700 words and phrases. Throughout the book, informative insets focus on fascinating aspects of deaf history, deaf culture, and significant deaf personalities.
£999.99
Jason Aronson Inc. Publishers Bridges of Compassion Insights and Interventions
Book SynopsisIn this text the authors bring the authority of their experience to their ways of integrating an insight-oriented psychodynamic approach with the concrete and structured elements of positive behavioural programming, as illustrated by 19 case-study chapters.
£88.00
Johns Hopkins University Press Difference and Identity A Special Issue of
Book SynopsisThe journal showcases the creative and critical work of renowned physician-writers, leading literary scholars, and medical humanists.Trade ReviewAn eclectic collection that informs, raises issues and creates discussion in the medical humanities and across a range of sub-disciplines. -- Julie Anderson Medical History 2006Table of ContentsPreface: Difference and Identity in MedicinePart I: Dis-AbilityChapter 1. Disability as MasqueradeChapter 2. Meditation, Disability, and IdentityChapter 3. Fat as Disability: The Case of the JewsChapter 4. Response to Section I: Dis-abilityPart II: Dis-SexualityChapter 5. Where the Girls Are: The Management of Venereal Disease by United States Military Forces in VietnamChapter 6. Bug Chasing, Barebacking, and the Risks of CareChapter 7. "Without us all told": Paul Monette's Vigilant Witnessing to the AIDS CrisisChapter 8. Response to Section II: Dis-sexuality: Sexuality and Dis-Sexuality in the International Regime of Human RightsPart III: Dis-EmbodimentChapter 9. Memento Morbi: Lam Qua's Paintings, Peter Parker's PatientsChapter 10. Loss and the Persistence of Memory: "The Case of George Dedlow" and Disabled Civil War VeteransChapter 11. Extrapolating Race in GATTACA: Genetic Passing, Identity, and the Science of RaceChapter 12. Response to Section III: Dis-embodimentContributors
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Beacon Press Enabling Acts The Hidden Story of How the
Book SynopsisThe first major behind-the-scenes account of the history, passage, and impact of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)—the landmark moment for disability rights The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is the widest-ranging and most comprehensive piece of civil rights legislation ever passed in the United States, and it has become the model for disability-based laws around the world. Yet the surprising story behind how the bill came to be is little known. In this riveting account, acclaimed disability scholar Lennard J. Davis delivers the first on-the-ground narrative of how a band of leftist Berkeley hippies managed to make an alliance with upper-crust, conservative Republicans to bring about a truly bipartisan bill. Based on extensive interviews with all the major players involved including legislators and activists, Davis recreates the dramatic tension of a story that is anything but a dry account of bills and speeches. Rather, it’s filled wit
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Teachers' College Press Meeting Families Where They Are Building Equity
Book SynopsisPresents a discussion of how human disability and parental advocacy have been constructed in American society, including recommendations for a more authentically inclusive vision of parental advocacy. The authors provide a cultural-historical view of the conflation of racism, classism, and ableism that have left a deeply entrenched stigma.Table of Contents Acknowledgments vii 1. Constructing Meanings of Human Difference at the Intersections of Identity: Personal and Conceptual Considerations 1 The Authors' Lenses 3 DisCrit: A Lens for Viewing Family and Community Intersections 4 The Co-Construction of Advocacy 8 Overview of the Book 8 Qualitative Vignettes and Authors' Reflections 10 2. Parent Advocacy and the Challenge of Difference 13 Personal Perspectives 14 Goals and Avenues of Advocacy 16 Why Advocacy for the Value of the Child? 18 3. Constructing Race and Disabilities as Intrinsic Differences: A Cultural-Historical View 25 "Intrinsic" Attributions: From the Supernatural to Science 25 Conquest, Slavery, and Colonization: The Intertwining of Race, Disability, and "Normality" 28 Families with Developmentally Disabled Children in the 19th Century 32 The 20th Century: The Hegemony of Intelligence as a Measurable Construct 36 The 20th Century and the Disempowerment of Parents 42 4. Parent Voices Rising: Challenging Constructions of Difference 49 Advocacy and the Judges 49 Parents' Published Narratives 51 The Emergence of Advocacy Organizations 59 Exposing the Institutions 65 5. The Social Construction of Humanness 71 The Meaning of Disability 75 The Painful Contours of Parent Advocacy 77 6. Advocacy Toward the EHA: Converging Interests and Intersections 93 Parent Advocacy: The Law as the Vehicle 93 The Construction of Disability Under the Law 96 The Label as a Negotiating Tool 102 The Label as Exclusion or Confusion 107 7. Parent Advocacy Under the Umbrella of the EHA/IDEA 109 Challenges of Racism, Ethnocentrism, and Context 110 Parent Advocacy: The Law as the Obstacle 125 8. Reframing Advocacy, Repositioning the Advocate 139 De-Constructing Advocacy 140 Revisiting Our Guiding Principles 145 Co-Constructing Advocacy: Developing a New Model 151 Forging Ahead 157 The Next Chapter 158 References 161 Index 175 About the Authors 184
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InterVarsity Press Belonging
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Hay House Inc Spirituality Is for Every Body
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Johns Hopkins University Press Making Computers Accessible
Book SynopsisBridging the history of technology, science and technology studies, and disability studies, this book traces the psychological, cultural, and economic evolution of a consumer culture aimed at individuals with disabilities, who increasingly rely on personal computers to make their lives richer and more interconnected.Trade ReviewShe creatively and thoughtfully brings together three growing areas of historical scholarship: disability rights, technical developments in computing, and users of personal computers. Choice By underlining, once more, how we can come to know the truth about certain claims through empirical and historical inquiries, Petrick's book represents a significant advance in answering questions related to human-machine interaction. MetascienceTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Disability Rights and Technology before the Personal Computer2. Early Personal Computer Accessibility, 1980–19873. Corporate Philanthropy and the National Special Education Alliance4. The Growth of Disability Rights and Accessible Computer Technologies5. Accessibility and Software Applications in the 1990sConclusionNotesA Note on Theory, Method, and SourcesIndex
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Baylor University Press Becoming the Baptized Body
Book SynopsisExplores how baptismal theologies and practices shape Christian imagination, identity, and community. Becoming the Baptized Body demonstrates how theology done together can expansively enliven imagination around baptismal practices and how they intersect with the human experience of disability.Table of Contents Foreword, by John Swinton Introduction 1 Entering the Conversation 2 Drawing from a Multitude of Witnesses 3 The Bible and Baptism 4 A New Creation: Paul and Baptismal Identity 5 Baptismal Liturgy and Disability 6 Practicing and Proclaiming Baptismal Identity 7 Practices of the Baptized Body: Preparation, Testimony, and Reaffirmation Conclusion
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Baylor University Press Bioenhancement Technologies and the Vulnerable
Book SynopsisWhereas the public-facing proponents of bioenhancements tend to come from privileged positions in society, Bioenhancement Technologies and the Vulnerable Body seeks to analyse the nuances of bioenhancement from the perspective of those who are often marginalized in bioethical discussions.Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Fleshly Transhumanism: A Positive Account of Body Modification and Body Enhancement - Adam Pryor 2. The Groaning of Creation: Technological Interventions in Creaturely Suffering - J. Jeanine Thweatt 3. The Tree of Life: Aquinas, Disability, and Transhumanism - Miguel J. Romero and Jason T. Eberl 4. Ontology--Where It Comes in and How It Matters: A Conversation Between Friends - Jonathan Tran and Jeffrey P. Bishop 5. Transfiguring the Vulnerability of Suffering - Kimbell Kornu 6. This is My Body: Faith Communities as Sites of Transfiguring Vulnerability - Wylin D. Wilson 7. The Lame to Walk and the Deaf Hear: Why It Pays for Surveillance Capitalism to Exploit the Disabled - Brian Brock 8. Christian Transhumanism in Context: The Relevance of Race Terri Laws - 9. Disability Justice, Bioenhancement and the Eschatological Imagination - Devan Stahl Epilogue Enhancing Bodies: From What to What?
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Scribner Book Company A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise
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Simon & Schuster The Invention of Miracles
Book SynopsisFinalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Finalist for the Mark Lynton History Prize ';Meticulously researched, crackling with insights, and rich in novelistic detail' (Steve Silberman), this ';provocative, sensitive, beautifully written biography' (Sylvia Nasar) tells the trueand troublingstory of Alexander Graham Bell's quest to end deafness. ';Researched and written through the Deaf perspective, this marvelously engaging history will have us rethinking the invention of the telephone.' Jaipreet Virdi, PhD, author of Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History We think of Alexander Graham Bell as the inventor of the telephone, but that's not how he saw his own career. As the son of a deaf woman and, later, husband to another, his goal in life from adolescence was to teach deaf students to speak. Even his tinkering sprang from his teaching work; the telephone had its origins as a
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Harbour Publishing Cam Tait: Disabled? Hell No! I'm a Sit-Down
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Brookes Publishing Co Including People with Disabilities in Faith
Book SynopsisThis book addresses how faith communities, service providers, and families can work together to support the full participation of individuals with disabilities in the faith community of their choice. Topics include: rationale for including and supporting people with disabilities within a faith community; the importance of collaboration among faith communities, service providers, families, and individuals with disabilities to establish and maintain supports; specific ideas for including individuals with disabilities and for developing a network of religious groups, service providers, and families to make faith communities more inclusive. Carter incorporates the following elements into the book: practical strategies, vignettes, case examples (i.e., model programs), resource lists, and photocopiable forms, checklists, and interview guides.
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Coffee House Press Bleed Through: New and Selected Poems
Book SynopsisGhost texts--the overheard conversation, the remembered line, the daily paper--clamor to enter the poems in Michael Davidson's Bleed Through. Here, the page is a plane for working out aesthetic problems, engaging the reader's intellect and love of beauty. Each new word or phrase calls forth another; attentions create their own nimbus of associations. Davidson's poems are a kind of battleground, where larger philosophical questions are grappled with through the sieve of language and form, but they are also a response to the vital use people make of everyday speech. Faced with hearing loss, he questions the acoustical models--voice, ear, rhyme, rhythm, text--upon which poetry depends and takes as his subject the problems and questions of our cultural history. From "The Second City": in the second cityI live out the dream of the firstliving neither for its access and glamour nor dying from its disregardsimply talking towards the twin spiresof an ancient cathedrallike a person becoming like a personTrade Review"Davidson has created in Bleed Through a beautiful balance between vulnerability, wit, and critique that is utterly entertaining and insightful." --Arcadia Magazine "Michael Davidson's poetry has always been a push-pull experience between total courage and exacting care, as if a fine Swiss watchmaker had suddenly taken up skydiving. It's a heady ride, dedicated at once to both risk & precision, and the pleasures of vertigo, thrill, speed, and terror are never very far. At the end of it, you find yourself surprised at how quiet it all was, up there in the clouds, or just how solid the ground now feels. Bleed Through is a book we have needed for a very long time. What a joy to have it in hand." --Ron Silliman "Michael Davidson refuses to treat history, philosophy, and the lives we live as separate phenomena. The language of intimate experience interrupts that of public atmospheres and vice versa. Heavens and aprons "slightly melt" into each other; Kant is at the mall, while our leaders eat cereal. These poems--many from rare and out of print books--converse as lucid shocks under a critical sun." --Jena Osman "Across a lifetime in poetry, Michael Davidson has plumbed the relationship between the ordinary and the uncanny, and the timeless and the timelessly amusing, within this all-too-mortal coil. His welcome 'new and selected' is rich with those swift turns and exploratory revelations poetry, at its most dynamic, is singularly designed to offer. It is a pleasure indeed to hail his accomplishment." --Michael Palmer
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Shambhala Publications Inc Being the Other One: Growing Up with a Brother or
Book SynopsisWhen there's a disabled child in the family, how are normally developing siblings affected? According to Kate Strohm, a counselor and health educator, siblings of the disabled face particular emotional challenges that are often overlooked. Able siblings commonly struggle with feelings of isolation, grief, anger, and anxiety—and these and other emotional issues can have lifelong effects. Being the Other One is based on the author's own experience (as a sibling of a sister with cerebral palsy) and on extensive interviews she conducted with siblings of all ages. In clear and compassionate terms, Strohm explores the often secret feelings of siblings and offers valuable strategies for coping with the challenges they face. Being the Other One reveals the difficulties faced by siblings at all stages of life, from early childhood through adulthood, when siblings must often assume responsibility for the care of their disabled brothers and sisters. Though the book looks honestly at the many challenges that siblings face, it is full of encouragement and practical strategies. Strohm emphasizes that when siblings are able to clearly identify and openly express their feelings and concerns—and when parents and health professionals offer the needed support—siblings can thrive. This book includes writing exercises for personal exploration and a substantial resources section listing helpful books, organizations, and websites.
£18.90
Temple University Press,U.S. Wheelchair Warrior: Gangs, Disability, and
Book SynopsisThe remarkable story of a disabled manTrade Review"Juette’s story follows his evolution from boy to man, from gang member to wheelchair athlete, and it’s a story of determination and inspiration that will touch everyone who reads it."—BooklistTable of ContentsPreface IntroductionPart I: Beginnings 1. Roots 2. In the Company of Peers 3. Gangs 4. The ShootingPart II: Transitions 5. Road to Recovery 6. Breaking Away 7. A Motley CrewPart III: Resolutions8. Fundamentally Sound 9. Lost and Found 10. The Best of All Victories Conclusion Notes Index
£19.79
Temple University Press,U.S. On the Margins of Citizenship: Intellectual
Book SynopsisThe history of civil rights for people with intellectual disabilities in 20th century AmericaTrade Review“On the Margins of Citizenship is a remarkable book. It has a broad scope, impressively addressing the history of American twentieth-century intellectual disability empirically at the individual, community, and policy level.”—Richard Scotch, Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, University of Texas at Dallas"On the Margins of Citizenship makes an important contribution to the sociology and American history of intellectual disability. It draws together and analyzes the development of legal rights that affect people with this disability. I am especially impressed with Carey's theoretical grounding. It is clear, succinct, and convincing. This is an excellent work that will prove to be important to scholars and activists interested in intellectual disability." —James Trent, Professor of Sociology, Gordon College"Carey carefully summarizes...the continuing problematic issues for people facing intellectual disabilities, while seeking inclusion by changing the definitions of citizenship.... Summing Up: Highly recommended." —CHOICETable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. A Theory of Rights and Disability 3. Setting the Stage: Early Tensions in Citizenship 4. The Feebleminded versus the Nation: 1900–1930s 5. Professionals and the Potentially Productive Citizen 6. The Rise of the Parents’ Movement and the Special Child 7. Creating the Mentally Retarded Citizen 8. The Difficult Road of the 1980s 9. Reimagining Retardation, Transforming Community 10. Conclusion Notes References Index
£25.19
Temple University Press,U.S. On the Margins of Citizenship: Intellectual
Book SynopsisThe history of civil rights for people with intellectual disabilities in 20th century AmericaTrade Review“On the Margins of Citizenship is a remarkable book. It has a broad scope, impressively addressing the history of American twentieth-century intellectual disability empirically at the individual, community, and policy level.”—Richard Scotch, Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, University of Texas at Dallas"On the Margins of Citizenship makes an important contribution to the sociology and American history of intellectual disability. It draws together and analyzes the development of legal rights that affect people with this disability. I am especially impressed with Carey's theoretical grounding. It is clear, succinct, and convincing. This is an excellent work that will prove to be important to scholars and activists interested in intellectual disability." —James Trent, Professor of Sociology, Gordon College"Carey carefully summarizes...the continuing problematic issues for people facing intellectual disabilities, while seeking inclusion by changing the definitions of citizenship.... Summing Up: Highly recommended." —CHOICETable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. A Theory of Rights and Disability 3. Setting the Stage: Early Tensions in Citizenship 4. The Feebleminded versus the Nation: 1900–1930s 5. Professionals and the Potentially Productive Citizen 6. The Rise of the Parents’ Movement and the Special Child 7. Creating the Mentally Retarded Citizen 8. The Difficult Road of the 1980s 9. Reimagining Retardation, Transforming Community 10. Conclusion Notes References Index
£48.00
Brookes Publishing Co Understanding Families: Supportive Approaches to
Book SynopsisToday’s American families are more complex and diverse than ever before—and today s child and family professionals must be fully prepared to meet their needs. Interventionists educators, health care professionals, therapists, and social workers will get the strong foundation they need with the NEW edition of this trusted textbook, a comprehensive guide to working effectively and respectfully with contemporary families.Highly respected experts Marci Hanson and Eleanor Lynch have expanded and updated their bestselling text, weaving in cutting-edge research on social, demographic, and economic changes and connecting the research to best practices in family-centered care. With a strong emphasis on family resilience, this book gets preservice and in-service professionals ready to work with a broad range of families with diverse structures, backgrounds, and circumstances communicate and collaborate effectively with every family they serve support families of children with disabilities advance strong parent–child attachment and interactions match services and supports with each family s desired goals and outcomes address risk factors such as poverty, addiction, and violence promote the mental health of young children and their parents apply human development theories in their work with children defuse common sources of tension between families and professionals With this cornerstone textbook, the new generation of child and family professionals will have the research and practical guidance they need to improve the lives and outcomes of 21st-century families. WHAT’S NEW Timely new information on: Demographic changes in the past decade Cultural and linguistic diversity Economic issues caused by the recession The needs of infants and very young children Infant mental health
£42.70
Brookes Publishing Co Learning Disabilities and Challenging Behaviors:
Book SynopsisWhy do students in Grades K–12 struggle with social and academic skills, and how can teachers help them develop the competence and confidence they need to succeed? Get practical answers in the new edition of this bestselling book, a staple of teacher training since 2001. It’s structured like the popular previous editions: a detailed questionnaire pinpoints each student’s individual strengths and needs, and an updated version of the highly effective Building Blocks model helps educators target 12 school success factors with proven strategies and guidelines they can use right away. Reliable, up-to-date research makes this a perfect preservice textbook, and the classroom-ready strategies are a lifeline for in-service teachers as they work toward better outcomes for struggling students.HELP STUDENTS MASTER 12 BUILDING BLOCKS OF LEARNING: Self-Regulation Behaviour Emotions Resilience Phonological Orthographic Memory Motor Automaticity/Efficiency Verbal Nonverbal Executive Functions WHAT’S NEW: New in-depth information on today’s most critical topics, including school climate, multi tiered systems of support (MTSS), positive behaviour interventions and supports (PBIS), social emotional learning, and student—teacher interactions. You’ll also get fresh contributions from experts on learning disabilities and behaviour challenges, plus lists of helpful apps and other online resources.
£999.99
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Bracing Accounts: The Literature & Cultu
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£96.11
Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc Disability and Identity: Negotiating Self in a
Book SynopsisThe author offers a sweeping examination of disability identity, tracing its history and parsing the shifting forces that have shaped individual and societal understandings of ability and impairment across time. The author focuses on the relationship between societal views and the self-conceptions of people with mental and physical impairments. The author also illuminates the impact of the disability rights movement, life-course dynamics, and race and gender in creating a diversity of disability identities. Her seminal work reveals the remarkable resilience of individuals in the face of profound social and material barriers, at the same time that it enhances our understanding of the construction and experience of “difference” in our changing society. Trade ReviewCHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC BOOK!“A foundational work for those who wish to explore this often-misunderstood topic.... Highly recommended.” —Choice“An important step forward.... This book is a fascinating read for anyone interested in identity theory or disability studies.” —Christopher Johnstone, American Journal of Sociology“Revitalizes interactionist and identity scholarship of decades past while simultaneously paving the way for crucial future advancements theoretically and practically.” —Alex I. Thompson, Symbolic InteractionTable of ContentsStigma and Acceptance over Time. Societal Views and Self-Conceptions. Intersecting Identities Among Women and African Americans with Disabilities. The Disability Rights Movement and Identity Politics. The Diversity of Disability Orientations. Measuring Disability Identity and Orientation. Identity over the Life Course. Disability and Identity: Past, Present, Future.
£26.46
WW Norton & Co About Us: Essays from the Disability Series of
Book SynopsisBoldly claiming a space where people with disabilities tell the stories of their own lives—not other’s stories about them—About Us captures the voices of a community that has for too long been stereotyped and misrepresented. Speaking not only to people with disabilities and their support networks, but to all of us, the authors in About Us offer intimate stories of how they navigate a world not built for them. Echoing the refrain of the disability rights movement, “nothing about us without us,” this collection, with a foreword by Andrew Solomon, is a landmark publication of the disability movement for readers of all backgrounds, communities, and abilities.
£999.99
Counterpoint Easy Street: A Story of Redemption from Myself
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£15.26
