Handicap and Integration
Equal Opportunities for Disabled Graduates (Hobsons Casebooks)
'Oliver Sacks is a perfect antidote to the anaesthetic of familiarity. His writing turns brains and minds transparent' - Observer When Oliver Sacks, a physician by profession, injured his leg while climbing a mountain, he found himself in an unusual position - that of patient. The injury itself was severe, but straightforward to fix; the psychological effects, however, were far less easy to predict, explain, or resolve: Sacks experienced paralysis and an inability to perceive his leg as his own,...
Winner of the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing Award 2021 In 2016, a United Nations report found the UK government culpable for 'grave and systematic violations' of disabled people's rights. Since then, driven by the Tory government's obsessive drive to slash public spending whilst scapegoating the most disadvantaged in society, the situation for disabled people in Britain has continued to deteriorate. Punitive welfare regimes, the removal of essential support and services, and an...
In this remarkable and incisive work, Sharon Betcher analyzes our world and God's embodied presence in the light of her own disability and the insight it affords. She claims disablement as a site of powerful social and religious critique and reflection. With searing honesty, she reveals how our culture, only recently tolerant and supportive of disabled people, still fears them. The presence of disabled persons stands as a rebuke to our images of body and health, to the distorted values of our co...
Politics of Visual Language: Deafness, Language Choice, and Political Socialization
by James Roots
Enabling Mathematics Learning of Struggling Students (Research in Mathematics Education)
This book provides prospective and practicing teachers with research insights into the mathematical difficulties of students with learning disabilities and classroom practices that address these difficulties. This linkage between research and practice celebrates teachers as learners of their own students’ mathematical thinking, thus contributing an alternative view of mathematical progression in which students are taught conceptually. The research-based volume presents a unique collaboration amo...
Curating Access
This book is an interdisciplinary collection of twenty-four essays which critically examine contemporary exhibitions and artistic practices that focus on conceptual and creative aspects of access. Oftentimes exhibitions tack on access once the artwork has already been executed and ready to be installed in the museum or gallery. But what if the artists were to ponder access as an integral and critical part of their artwork? Can access be creative and experimental? And furthermore, can the curato...
Observations d'Un Sourd Et Muet, Sur Un Cours Elementaire d'Education Des Sourds Et Muets (Ed.1779) (Sciences)
by Pierre Desloges
Community and Independent Living for Adults with Down Syndrome (Down Syndrome Issues & Information)
by Roy Brown, Patricia Brown, and Patrick McGinley
"Summary" - This book discusses community and independent living for adults with Down syndrome. In many ways it follows on and links to a previous book in this series, Families of adults with Down syndrome. It describes the ways adults have moved from family home to community residential living, and in so doing discusses the development of an independent home life integrated with the local community. We have provided examples of people, who vary in their ability levels, along with the successes...
Transition to Employment (Down Syndrome Issues & Information)
by Angus Capie, Anna Contardi, and Diane Doehring
The period when anyone leaves school and seeks further education and employment is a challenging time for all young people, but it can provide additional challenges for young people with Down syndrome and their families. This book discusses in a straightforward manner the range of situations that young people face at this time. It opens by noting that families must accept the challenge of "letting go" if their young person is to grow. Most families find this difficult at some stage, and this tas...
Sheila Hocken was born in 1946 into a family who were all blind or partially-sighted. Emma, a chocolate-brown labrador, gave her freedom to travel and was outstandingly intuitive in realizing her needs. An operation in 1975 gave Sheila her sight, and this is her seventh book. Emma is no longer alive, but stories of her intelligence survive in this book about her canine family, and once again we read of the antics of Teak, Mocha, Bracken, Buttons, Pip, Psyche and Katy. The author talks about trai...
God, Suffering, and Disability: A Trinitarian Theodicy of the Cross utilizes both Christological and pneumatological perspectives of Luther's theology of the cross to address the complexities of suffering and disability. Through the lens of the cross, the God who suffers enables humans to "call a thing what it is" by recognizing the suffering that often accompanies disability. Rather than asking "why" the Triune God allows people to suffer, this theodicy of disability focuses on "where" the Fath...
'Sacks is rightly renowned for his empathy . . . anyone with a taste for the exotic will find this beautifully written book highly engaging' - Sunday Times Always fascinated by islands, Oliver Sacks is drawn to the Pacific by reports of the tiny atoll of Pingelap, with its isolated community of islanders born totally colour-blind; and to Guam, where he investigates a puzzling paralysis endemic there for a century. Along the way, he re-encounters the beautiful, primitive island cycad trees - and...