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What has a use in the future, unforeseeably, is radically useless now. What has an effect now is not necessarily useful if it falls through the gaps. In For a Pragmatics of the Useless Erin Manning ……続きを見る

This book explores the societal resistance to accessibility for persons with disabilities, and tries to set an example of how to study exclusion in a time when numerous policies promise inclusion. W……続きを見る

I created this paper in my studies at Husson University and UFred. Hopefully this will be a helpful first look into logotherapy for someone. New to this version: Changed cover picture to comply with……続きを見る

In "Five Lectures on Blindness," Kate M. Foley engages in a profound exploration of the psychological, philosophical, and social ramifications of blindness, moving beyond the physical condition to i……続きを見る

Covering the period from Antiquity to Early Modernity, A Historical Sociology of Disability argues that disabled people have been treated in Western society as good to mistreat and – with the rise o……続きを見る

This is the first book devoted to the cultural history in the pre-modern period of people we now describe as having learning disabilities. Using an interdisciplinary approach, including historical s……続きを見る

Current understandings of ageing and diversity are impoverished in three main ways. Firstly, with regards to thinking about what inequalities operate in later life there has been an excessive preocc……続きを見る

Drawing on her own experiences with late-onset disability and its impact on her sex life, along with her expertise as a cultural critic, Jane Gallop explores how disability and aging work to undermi……続きを見る

Smettetela di definire i disabili persone fuori dal comune: hanno solo più coraggio di vivere questa intensa vita. 続きを見る

La riforma dei servizi per l’impiego e delle politiche attive per il lavoro, con la definizione dei livelli essenziali dei servizi da erogare in particolare ai soggetti fragili e vulnerabili, regola……続きを見る

Grounded in over 50 years of outcome research, this comprehensive textbook focuses on outcomes management and the principles and core strategies for delivering competent and effective therapeutic pr……続きを見る

In the 1820s, several years before Braille was invented, Therese-Adele Husson, a young blind woman from provincial France, wrote an audacious manifesto about her life, French society, and her hopes ……続きを見る

I caregiver familiari sono impegnati in un lavoro di cura imponente, a vari livelli e in momenti diversi della vita, con azioni che vanno dal supporto nelle attività quotidiane, all’accompagnamento ……続きを見る

EPUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This is the first book to challenge the concept of paid work for disabled people as a means to ‘independence’ and ‘self determination’.……続きを見る

Il “Manifesto del Disability Manager” è il documento attraverso il quale la SIDiMa (Società Italiana Disability Manager) intende rendere manifesta la connotazione del Disability Manager, soprattutto……続きを見る

Sophie's Place is a quiet home tucked in the hills of Gordon Town, but inside its walls lives a world of courage, tenderness, and extraordinary resilience. This book invites readers into that world ……続きを見る

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and is freely available to read online. This review systematically explores and assesses the quality of the evidence base for effective and supportive ……続きを見る

In this probing exploration of what it means to be deaf, Brenda Brueggemann goes beyond any simple notion of identity politics to explore the very nature of identity itself. Looking at a variety of ……続きを見る

Benjamin Norton passed away in 2015 at the age of 29. This story focuses on how Ben and his family dealt with Ben’s mental and physical challenges and, sometimes more telling, how our society dealt ……続きを見る

A political biography that reveals new sides to Helen Keller Several decades after her death in 1968, Helen Keller remains one of the most widely recognized women of the twentieth century. But the f……続きを見る

What does the term "reading" mean? Matthew Rubery's exploration of the influence neurodivergence has on the ways individuals read asks us to consider that there may be no one definition. This altern……続きを見る

This book on Deaf made home movies takes readers on a journey through the first fifty years of filmmaking (from 1925 through the 1970s), highlighting how the American Deaf community utilized silent ……続きを見る

A fully updated paperback edition that includes coverage of the key developments of the past two years, including the political controversies that swirled around Facebook with increasing intensity i……続きを見る

For almost a decade, journalists and pundits have been asking why we don't see successful examples of political satire from conservatives or of opinion talk radio from liberals. This book turns that……続きを見る

This book is a critical disability studies examination of the lived experience of chronic pain, engaging with and making a significant contribution to crip theory and the concept of ‘crip time’. Exp……続きを見る

In Canada, social workーboth the profession and the academic disciplineーhas given inadequate attention to individuals living with autism and intellectual and developmental disabilities. This is tru……続きを見る

Imagining anti-ableist liberation beyond the rubrics of access and inclusion In the thirty years since the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law, the lives of disabled people have not ……続きを見る

It’s time to remake the world – the ground-breaking book on what steps we should all be taking for the autistic people in our lives. The modern world is built for neurotypicals: needless noise, brig……続きを見る

In Intoxicated Mel Y. Chen explores the ongoing imperial relationship between race, sexuality, and disability. They focus on nineteenth-century biopolitical archives in England and Australia to show……続きを見る

“I need not tell you that a mighty change has taken place within the last half century, a change for the better,” Alphonso Johnson, the president of the Empire State Association of Deaf-Mutes, signe……続きを見る