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
Be Yourself (Inspire Positivity Journaling, #13)
by Suzie Love Reynolds
Why is the sexuality of people with intellectual disabilities often deemed “risky” or “inappropriate” by teachers, parents, support staff, medical professionals, judges, and the media? Should sexual citizenship depend on IQ? Confronting such questions head-on, Already Doing It exposes the “sexual ableism” that denies the reality of individuals who, despite the restrictions they face, actively make decisions about their sexual lives. Tracing the history of efforts in the United States to limit t...
Featuring contributed chapters from experts within the discipline, Fundamentals of Clinical Rehabilitation Counseling provides readers with a vast range of knowledge and skills to help them work effectively with individuals with disabilities. The text familiarizes readers with chief concepts and prepares them to move into expanded explorations of these topics as they continue their education and training within the field. The textbook opens with an overview of the historical context of clinical...
La Iniciacion Deportiva Para Personas Con Ceguera y Deficiencia Visual
by Alfonso Gutierrez Santiago
This book presents the outcomes of a field action project at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS). Project Chunauti (English translation: Project Challenge) focused on a group of intellectually disabled, orphan children who were survivors of abuse, exploitation and neglect, and describes their journey toward empowerment. It offers a vision and a reproducible, adaptable model for rehabilitation that can foster the social re-integration of intellectually disabled orphans at institutions....
Disability and Mobile Citizenship in Postsocialist Ukraine Disability and Mobile Citizenship in Postsocialist Ukraine
by Dr Sarah D Phillips
Sarah D. Phillips examines the struggles of disabled persons in Ukraine and the other former Soviet states to secure their rights during the tumultuous political, economic, and social reforms of the last two decades. Through participant observation and interviews with disabled Ukrainians across the social spectrum-rights activists, politicians, students, workers, entrepreneurs, athletes, and others-Phillips documents the creative strategies used by people on the margins of postsocialist societie...
Stress in Parenting a Disabled Child (Social Work Monographs)
by Elizabeth Mutch
Improved Public Transport for Disabled People (Central Research Unit Papers)
A History of Disability (Corporealities: Discourses of Disability)
by Henri-Jacques Stiker
In addressing Western discourse on disability, Stiker examines the cultural assumption that equality/sameness/similarity is always desired by those in society and asserts his own view that difference is not only acceptable but desirable and necessary'
Community Care (Confident Living)