Meeting the Challenge of Learning Disabilities in Adulthood
by Arlyn J. Roffman
How do adults face the hurdles of learning disabilities (LD) in their professional and personal lives? A group of adults with LD, many of whom also have attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), describe how they've met disability-related challenges at work and at home.
Inspired by the conference "Deaf People in Hitler's Europe, 1933-1945," hosted jointly by Gallaudet University and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1998, this extraordinary collection, organized into three parts, integrates key presentations and important postconference research. Henry Friedlander begins "Part I: Racial Hygiene" by analyzing the assault on deaf people and people with disabilities as an integral element in the Nazi attempt to implement their theories of racial hygi...
These checklists bring together the competency skills necessary to lead an independent life in the community, from basic skills of eating and dressing to using everyday amenities. They provide a basis for assessing and recording progress and for determining the level of support required.
Righting Educational Wrongs (Critical Perspectives on Disability)
by Arlene Kanter
Disabling Mission, Enabling Witness (Missiological Engagements)
by Benjamin T. Conner
In recent decades churches have accommodated people with disabilities in various ways. Through access ramps and elevators and sign language, disabled persons are invited in to worship. But are they actually enfolded into the church's mission? Have the able-bodied come to recognize and appreciate the potential contributions of people with disabilities in the ministry and witness of the church? Benjamin Conner wants to stimulate a new conversation between disability studies and Christian theology...
Show Me What My Friends Can See
by Patricia Mary Sonksen and Blanche Stiff
Rehabilitation & Handicapped Literature, 1982-1985 Update
Concerto for the Left Hand (Corporealities)
by Professor Michael Davidson
They Grow in Silence
Horst Biesold's Crying Hands treats a neglected aspect of the Holocaust: the fate of the deaf in Nazi Germany. His book covers a story that has remained almost unknown. In the United States, even in Germany, few are aware that during the Nazi era human beings-men, women, and children-with impaired hearing were sterilized against their will, and even fewer know that many of the deaf were also murdered.--From the Foreword by Henry Friedlander When the Nazis assumed power in Germany in 1933, they...
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