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This interdisciplinary collection of essays addresses the theoretical, practical and legal dimensions of equality for persons with disabilities. The issues covered include the central problem of def……続きを見る

Introduces key ideas and offers a sense of the new frontiers and questions in the emerging field of disability media studies Disability Media Studies articulates the formation of a new field of stud……続きを見る

The United States is home to more than 54 million people with disabilities. This book looks at public transit and transportation systems with a focus on new and emerging needs for individuals with d……続きを見る

Phallacies: Historical Intersections of Disability and Masculinity is a collection of essays that focuses on disabled men who negotiate their masculinity as well as their disability. The chapters co……続きを見る

The aim of Inclusion or Illusion is to provide readers with an understanding of educational provision in our primary schools for children with Mild General Learning Disabilities (MGLD) (over half th……続きを見る

With social and community services coming under increasing pressure as austerity continues, Unfinished Business examines how social policy has operated in Ireland and how it has been affected by con……続きを見る

Selbstbestimmte Lebensführung und Teilhabe im Gemeinwesen - das sind zentrale Themen einer breit geführten Auseinandersetzung im Bereich der Behindertenhilfe bzw. der Sozialen Arbeit bei Behinderung……続きを見る

Nils Jent (49) überlebte mit achtzehn Jahren einen Motorradunfall. Als er aus dem Koma erwachte, konnte er sich nicht bewegen, war blind geworden und hatte seine Sprechfähigkeit verloren. Schritt fü……続きを見る

First Published in 2017. The author shares their feelings about enjoying and preserving the natural environment, yet this book also reveals a conflict in values that the most committed ecologist mus……続きを見る

The current literature regarding employment among persons with disabilities produces research results dependent on definitions of work disability, the discipline within which research takes places, ……続きを見る

The disability of blindness is a learned social role. The various attitudes and patterns of behavior that characterize people who are blind are not inherent in their condition but, rather, are acqui……続きを見る

One of the perennial political/philosophical questions concerns whether it is ever justifiable for a third party to paternalistically restrict an adult’s freedom to ensure their own, or society’s, b……続きを見る

Inspired by the author’s personal experience of sustaining acquired brain injury (ABI), this path-breaking book explores the (re)construction of identity after ABI. It offers a way of understanding ……続きを見る

In Deaf to the Marrow, public anthropologist Audrey C. Cooper examines the social production and transformation of ideas about language, bodies, and state-structured educational institutions in sout……続きを見る

Nach ihrem Studium will Nicole die Welt bereisen. Dabei begegnen ihr so viel Elend und Armut, dass sie ihre geplante Karriere und ihr Leben im Wohlstand komplett in Frage stellt. In Neu-Delhi gründe……続きを見る

This book brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines to address critical perspectives on Chinese language social media, internationalizing the state of social media studies beyond the An……続きを見る

How does one investigate a child maltreatment case when the victim is blind, mute, deaf, mentally retarded, or confined to an institution? Special Children, Special Risks presents analysis, recommen……続きを見る

This book is a study detailing what happens to people and what life is like in a rehabilitation program. The program discussed is embedded in an institution, called ""Farewell Hospital"" by the auth……続きを見る

The mapping, control and subjugation of the human body and mind were core features of the colonial conquest. This book draws together a rich collection of diverse, yet rigorous, papers that aim to e……続きを見る

“All too often,” wrote disabled architect Ronald Mace, “designers don’t take the needs of disabled and elderly people into account.” Building Access investigates twentieth-century strategies for des……続きを見る

The book examines issues of disabilities in Nigeria focusing on attitudes and reactions to people with disabilities within the context of practices perpetuating the treatment of people with disabili……続きを見る

Este es un manual de Psicología y Psicología Social dirigido a expertos en ciencias del deporte, psicólogos, técnicos y educadores interesados en introducirse y profundizar en el ámbito de la activi……続きを見る

Praise for the First Edition: "This is an excellent book, but the best parts are the stories of the disabled, which give readers insights into their struggles and triumphs." Score: 94, 4 Stars–-Dood……続きを見る

Disabling Barriers analyzes issues relating to disability at different moments in Canadian and American history. In this volume, legal scholars, historians, and disability-rights activists demonstra……続きを見る

Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities provides a unique contribution not currently available in the professional literature by addressing the experiences and perspectives of families living wi……続きを見る

This publication will help all service providers to ensure that disabled children and young people with additional support needs can access services and lead a life as part of their local community,……続きを見る

Print version of the book includes free access to the app (web, iOS, and Android), which offers interactive Q&A review plus the entire text of the print book! Please note the app is included with pr……続きを見る

In this innovative and important study, Heather Tilley examines the huge shifts that took place in the experience and conceptualisation of blindness during the nineteenth century, and demonstrates h……続きを見る

The Routledge History of Disability explores the shifting attitudes towards and representations of disabled people from the age of antiquity to the twenty-first century. Taking an international view……続きを見る

Disabled women represent one of the most marginalised minority groups in the world, hence they are largely silent while their sexuality is ignored, suppressed, forbidden and buried underneath the ca……続きを見る