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Living Life to the Fullest (Emerald Points)
by Kirsty Liddiard, Sally Whitney-Mitchell, Katy Evans, Lucy Watts, Ruth Spurr, Emma Vogelmann, Katherine Runswick-Cole, and Dan Goodley
This co-authored text critically explores the key findings of the Living Life to the Fullest project – a project that has explored the lives, thoughts, hopes and aspirations of disabled young people living with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions. Written by disabled young people and academic researchers, the book articulates ethical co-production in social research. The prolific contemporary political and theoretical debates about life, death and the human in an age of global precar...
A Sociology of Impairment (Interdisciplinary Disability Studies)
by Mark Sherry
The social model of disability, which uses the impairment/disability binary to focus attention on removing disability, has been called the ’great idea’ of the disability movement. But scholars challenge the impairment/disability dichotomy for being too simplistic and politically inadequate since while it has been incredibly useful in focusing disability activism on the removal of disabling barriers and challenging disablist attitudes, it has stifled discussions of impairment. This book rejects...
Handbook of Disability Studies
by Gary L. Albrecht, Katherine D Seelman, and Michael Bury
Caring for a Disabled Child (Straightforward Guides, #15)
by Abigail Knight
Deaf Children
They called him Owen. Born on January 3, 1960, he was fair and blue-eyed, and he seemed as healthy as his four brothers and sisters. Today Owen lives in a school for the severely disabled near Frankfort, Kentucky. For his parents, Charles and Mary Callanan, the years "since Owen" have brought a continuing struggle to cope and an unending search for answers. They desperately needed information—information they couldn't always find in medical journals or the out-of-date pamphlets displayed in agen...
Dispatches from Disabled Country (Disability Culture and Politics)
by Catherine Frazee
“Disability is not our worst-case scenario – our worst-case scenario would be its annihilation.” This is the starting point for this powerful collection of writing by and about Catherine Frazee, disability activist, Officer of the Order of Canada, and poetic scholar of justice. For Frazee, disability is not something to be dreaded or overcome but a force to be reckoned with – a prism of insight and experience that refracts new light upon our fundamental ideals of justice, beauty, and community...
They Grow in Silence
Disability, like questions of race, gender, and class, is one of the most provocative topics among theorists and philosophers today. This volume, situated at the intersection of feminist theory and disability studies, addresses questions about the nature of embodiment, the meaning of disability, the impact of public policy on those who have been labelled disabled, and how we define the norms of mental and physical ability. The essays here bridge the gap between theory and activism by illuminatin...
Accessibility Disabled World Travels - Tips for Travelers with Disabilities
by Tracey Ingram
Sheltered Employment in Five Member States of the Council of Europe
Disability and Employment in Asia