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Historically, interventions designed to impact the lives of disabled people were predicated upon deficits-based models of disability. This began to change with the introduction of World Health Organ……続きを見る

The pressures Asian Americans feel to be socially and economically exceptional include an unspoken mandate to always be healthy. Nowhere is this more evident than in the expectation for Asian Americ……続きを見る

Seeing through the eyes of others brings new perspective on the place we call home. In Land of Many Shores, writers share their perspectives about life in Newfoundland and Labrador from often- negle……続きを見る

This book presents an up-to-date analysis of women as victims of crime, as individuals under justice system supervision, and as professionals in the field. The text features an empowerment approach ……続きを見る

Autistic people often feel they have to present as neurotypical or perform neurotypical social behaviours in order to fit in. So-called 'masking' is a social survival strategy used by autistic peopl……続きを見る

The Routledge Handbook of Critical Obesity Studies is an authoritative and challenging guide to the breadth and depth of critical thinking and theory on obesity. Rather than focusing on obesity as a……続きを見る

Neste Livro, a pesquisadora da Língua Brasileira de Sinais, Dr.ª Leidiani Reis, descreve e analisa as estratégias referenciais na Libras realizadas por sujeitos surdos, diante das ocorrências de aná……続きを見る

The first social history of disability and difference in American adoption, from the Progressive Era to the end of the twentieth century. Disability and child welfare, together and apart, are major ……続きを見る

Imagining Windmills presents a compilation of scholarly chapters by selected authors of global standing in the arts therapies. This book reflects the theme of the 15th International Conference of th……続きを見る

Este Manual es el más adecuado para impartir la UF0800 "Habilidades de comunicación y promoción de conductas adaptadas de la persona con discapacidad" de los Certificados de Profesionalidad, y cumpl……続きを見る

Este Manual es el más adecuado para impartir la UF0799 "Desarrollo de habilidades personales y sociales de las personas con discapacidad" de los Certificados de Profesionalidad, y cumple fielmente c……続きを見る

Enfin un ouvrage avec un titre franc et direct. Nous avons plutôt tendance à tourner autour du pot quand vient le temps d’aborder le thème de la sexualité en général et encore plus lorsqu’il s’agit ……続きを見る

Le sujet traité par cet ouvrage s’intéresse à la perception qu’ont les parents d’enfants ou adultes handicapés mentaux vis-à-vis des établissements spécialisés. Les témoignages que les familles ont ……続きを見る

Il s’agit d’un travail de cliniciens destiné à des professionnels ou des parents ayant déjà un minimum de connaissances de base sur l’autisme. Il explore et essaie de présenter de manière cohérente ……続きを見る

Given basic commitments to philosophize from lived experience and a shared underlying meliorist impulse, American philosophical traditions seem well-suited to develop nascent philosophical engagemen……続きを見る

While the disability rights movement of recent decades has a rich and well-documented history, it is a history mostly focused on the Global North. Disability in Africa presents an interdisciplinary ……続きを見る

In the German-speaking world there has been a new wave - intensifying since 2007 - of autobiographically inspired writing on illness and disability, death and dying. Nina Schmidt's book takes this w……続きを見る

Funny Peculiar Zsa Zsa, Raquelle, Blanche and Cuba are in quarantine – four disabled women locked down, locked in, shut up and shouted down. While the rest of the nation is in meltdown, it takes a l……続きを見る

Leading Blind without Vision: The Benefits of Hiring the Blind and Visually Impaired is a handbook for human resource professionals and hiring managers who want to bring their organization into the ……続きを見る

How can families of children with disabilities plan for lasting financial security at every stage of life? Find clear answers in The Special Needs Planning Guide, a step-by-step companion for parent……続きを見る

'An engrossing, urgent, and entertaining read. I couldn't put it down' Roddy Doyle ______ Marguerite Penrose's is an extraordinary story of making a great life from complicated beginnings. Marguerit……続きを見る

Do you remember when you were a child in school? Can you picture that one student who was always teased or bullied because he or she seemed “different?” It may have been the way she walked, or the w……続きを見る

Winner of the 2023 Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award Honorable Mention for the 2022 Robert K. Martin Book Prize from the Canadian Association for American Studies (CAAS) ASALH 2023 Book Prize Fin……続きを見る

Uses of disability in literature are often problematic and harmful to disabled people. This is also true, of course, in children’s and young adult literature, but interestingly, when disability is p……続きを見る

★★★★★ "Thoughtful, instructive, profoundly useful-not to mention spit-out-your-drink funny." Timothy J. Hillegonds, author of The Distance Between At the ripe age of forty, when Alexis Paige was fin……続きを見る

As a community volunteer for several years, I have come to know many elderly people, to listen to the stories of their lives, and to witness their needs and complaints.Some are no longer with us, of……続きを見る

Disabling Poverty, Enabling Citizenship, a five year (2008 – 2014) SSHRC funded Community University Research Alliance (CURA) project, has been led by the Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD……続きを見る

Le projet Pauvreté invalidante, citoyenneté habilitante est un projet de recherche quinquennal (2008-2014) des Alliances de recherche des universités-communautés (ARUC), financé par le CRSH et dirig……続きを見る

Studying people’s lives requires acknowledging the multiple entanglements between individual singularity and processes of social patterning. This book testifies how challenging and creative the stud……続きを見る

Based in the philosophy of critical realism, this book employs a range of Margaret Archer’s theoretical concepts to investigate temporal and spatial aspects of Norwegian education. Stemming from Arc……続きを見る