There has recently been a resurgence of interest in problem or challenging behaviours in people with severe learning difficulties (severe or profound mental handicaps) with the shift to community care. This study provides a comprehensive summary of applied behavioural approaches to understanding and treating aggressive, destructive and self-injurious behaviours shown by people with severe learning difficulties. Emphasis is placed throughout the book upon the need for researchers and practitioner...
National Disability Council (House of Commons Papers, No. 971 (Session 1997-98))
by David Grayson
An eye-opening portrait of the diverse disability community as it is today and how attitudes, activism, and representation have evolved since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). In Disability Pride, disabled journalist Ben Mattlin weaves together interviews and reportage to introduce a cavalcade of individuals, ideas, and events in engaging, fast-paced prose. He traces the generation that came of age after the ADA reshaped America, and how it is influencing the future. He...
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...
A Mismatch of Salience brings together a range of Damian Milton's writings that span more than a decade. The book explores the communication and understanding difficulties that can create barriers between people on the autism spectrum and neurotypical people. It celebrates diversity in communication styles and human experience by re framing the view that autistic people represent a `disordered other' not as an impairment, but a two-way mismatch of salience. It also looks at how our current knowl...
The Routledge International Handbook of Mad Studies (Routledge International Handbooks)
By drawing broadly on international thinking and experience, this book offers a critical exploration of Mad Studies and advances its theory and practice. Comprised of 34 chapters written by international leading experts, activists and academics, this handbook introduces and advances Mad Studies, as well as exploring resistance and criticism, and clarifying its history, ideas, what it is, and what it can offer. It presents examples of mad studies in action, covering initiatives that have been ta...
A collection of immersive and hard-hitting essays, poems, and photography that provide an honest reckoning with economic hardship in the US—and the systems that perpetuate it.Alissa Quart and David Wallis, assembles the experiences of Americans who are living on the edge. A grocery store worker describes the job of an “essential worker” during the pandemic; a veteran details his experience with homelessness and the comprehensive approach to care that would have helped him. One writer recounts th...
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))
Acts of Conspicuous Compassion investigates the relationship between performance culture and the cultivation of charitable sentiment in America, exploring the distinctive practices that have evolved to make the plea for charity legible and compelling. From the work of 19th-century melodramas to the televised drama of transformation and redemption in reality TV's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Acts of Conspicuous Compassion charts the sophisticated strategies employed by various charity movement...
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...
Imagine a common movie scene: a hero confronts a villain. Captioning such a moment would at first glance seem as basic as transcribing the dialogue. But consider the choices involved: How do you convey the sarcasm in a comeback? Do you include a henchman's muttering in the background? Does the villain emit a scream, a grunt, or a howl as he goes down? And how do you note a gunshot without spoiling the scene? These are the choices closed captioners face every day. Captioners must decide whether...