Sheltered Employment in Five Member States of the Council of Europe
Disability and Employment in Asia
Complete Directory for People with Disabilities, 2013 (Complete Directory for People with Disabilities )
Openings to the infinite ocean (Swarthmore Lecture)
by Tom Shakespeare
Picturing Disability (Critical Perspectives on Disability)
by Robert Bogdan
Midget, feeble-minded, crippled, lame, and insane: these terms and the historical photographs that accompany them may seem shocking to present-day audiences. A young woman with no arms wears a sequined tutu and smiles for the camera as she smokes a cigarette with her toes; a man holds up two prosthetic legs while his own legs are bared to the knees to show his missing feet. The photos were used as promotional material for circus sideshows, charity drives, and art galleries. They were found on be...
New Horizons in Sport for Athletes with a Disability, Vol. 1
by Gudrun Doll-Tepper
This volume maps out the development perspectives of paralympic sport. The second edition of the International Paralympic Committee's VISTA Conference series comprised 60 contributions by international experts. Held at the German Sport University in Cologne, the event brought together scientists, coaches, athletes and administrators from over 40 countries who addressed all major issues of paralympic sport - sport performance (including exercise physiology, advances in training techniques, and te...
I Felt Like Running Away
by David Bamford, Huw Griffiths, and George Kernohan
Meeting Part M and Designing Lifetime Homes
Pain and Shock in America – Politics, Advocacy, and the Controversial Treatment of People with Disabilities
by Jan Nisbet
The first book to be written on the Judge Rotenberg Center and their use of painful interventions to control the behavior of children and adults with disabilities. For more than forty years, professionals in the field of disability studies have engaged in debates over the use of aversive interventions (such as electric shock) like the ones used at the Judge Rotenberg Center. Advocates and lawyers have filed complaints and lawsuits to both use them and ban them, scientists have written hundreds...
In The Lives of Jessie Sampter, Sarah Imhoff tells the story of an individual full of contradictions. Jessie Sampter (1883–1938) was best known for her Course in Zionism (1915), an American primer for understanding support of a Jewish state in Palestine. In 1919, Sampter packed a trousseau, declared herself “married to Palestine,” and immigrated there. Yet Sampter’s own life and body hardly matched typical Zionist ideals. Although she identified with Judaism, Sampter took up and experimented wit...
For undergraduate and graduate introductory courses in Mental Retardation and intellectual disabilities in special education, psychology, social work, and social sciences programs. The eighth edition of this classic text again fulfills its goal of providing an introduction to intellectual disabilities that is readable and comprehensive, and which reflects the broad array of stories associated with this disability. The authors combine a developmental approach-discussing their subject as it evolve...
'I'm a hero. It's easy to be a hero. If you don't have hands or feet, you're either a hero or dead.' So begins Ruben Gallego's shocking account of his bleak life in the Soviet Union's network of hidden orphanages.Ruben was born in Moscow in 1968 with severe cerebral palsy. His grandfather, the head of Spain's Communist Party, found his disability unbearable and banished him to a state orphanage, telling Ruben's mother that her son had died. Communist Russia's much vaunted welfare system claimed...
This is the story, in words and pictures, of Blind Veterans UK, an organization that was founded 100 years ago by Sir Arthur Pearson, who was himself blind, during the First World War, in order to bring hope and practical help to British and Allied servicemen blinded in the service of their country. It also tells of how light from the torch which Pearson lit in 1915 spread to all corners of the earth, to which his beloved St Dunstaners returned, having 'graduated' from the mother organization i...
A behind-the-scenes account of the passing of the ADA—the moment when millions of Americans won their civil rights The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is the widest-ranging and most comprehensive piece of civil rights legislation ever passed in the United States, and it has become the model for disability-based laws around the world. Yet the surprising story behind how the bill came to be is little known. In this riveting account, acclaimed disability scholar Lennard J. Davis delivers th...
Falling in Love (Books Beyond Words)
by Sheila Hollins, Wendy Perez, and Adam Abdelnoor
Considering Chang and Eng's body in America from the nineteenth century to the present