The Routledge Handbook of Disability Activism (Routledge International Handbooks)
The onslaught of neoliberalism, austerity measures and cuts, impact of climate change, protracted conflicts and ongoing refugee crisis, rise of far right and populist movements have all negatively impacted on disability. Yet, disabled people and their allies are fighting back and we urgently need to understand how, where and what they are doing, what they feel their challenges are and what their future needs will be. This comprehensive handbook emphasizes the importance of everyday disability a...
AWKWOODS Daniel Oliver’s dyspraxic adventures in participatory performance
by Daniel Oliver
Human Rights and Disabled Persons (Human Rights Study S., #6)
by United Nations
MacArthur Inventarios del Desarrollo de Habilidades Comunicativas (Inventarios)
by Lydia Fegan, Anne Rauch, Donna Jackson-Maldonado, Elizabeth Bates, Donna J Thal, Virginia A. Marchman, Larry Fenson, Tyler Newton, and Barbara Conboy
People with disabilities have special needs, and these are are now being met and recognized by an increasingly wide community. This book has been written to meet the lack of readily available information which might provide an introduction to the issues facing the disabled and their service providers. This book covers the following: history; disability, handicap and impairment; demography, legislation; equal opportunities; support services; assistive technology; employment; education; leisure; t...
Involving Disabled People in Community Care Planning
by Catherine Bewley and Caroline Glendinning
Working with People (King Edward's Hospital Fund S.)
by Robert J Maxwell, Victor Morrison, and Victor Morris
Residential Care of Handicapped Persons Under the Age of 65 in England and Wales (House of Commons Papers, No. 46 (Session 1998-99))
A Double Challenge
“We each have Skype accounts and use them to discuss [Moby-Dick] face to face. Once a week, we spread the worded whale out in front of us; we dissect its head, eyes, and bones, careful not to hurt or kill it. The Professor and I are not whale hunters. We are not letting the whale die. We are shaping it, letting it swim through the Web with a new and polished look.”—Tito Mukhopadhyay Since the 1940s researchers have been repeating claims about autistic people's limited ability to understand lan...
Disabled Veterans in History (Corporealities: Discourses of Disability)
Disabled Veterans in History explores the long-neglected history of those who have sustained lasting injuries or chronic illnesses while serving in uniform. The contributors to this volume cover an impressive range of countries in Europe and North America as well as a wide sweep of chronology from the Ancient World to the present. The essays address the emergence of "veteran" as a political category with unique privileges and entitlements and of disabled veterans as a special project--and indeed...
Local Authority Services in Rural England (Rural Information S.)
by Rita Hale and Anna Capaldi
Non-Visual Landscape - Landscape Planning for People with Vision Problems
by Angeliki Koskina and Nikolas Hasanagas
Landscape 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...
Behind the Disability You'll See Me
by Norma V Pitts and Betty Butlin
Oxford Handbook of Deaf Studies, Language, and Education
by Marc Marschark and Patricia Elizabeth Spencer