Critical disability studies both questions these existing notions of disability and interrogates how they have become a part of the academic attitude towards the field. As the first comprehensive handbook on critical disability studies, this volume...Loe edasi...
This book details how existing public health emergency responses have failed and still fail to address the multi-faceted needs of disabled people. It analyzes complications in the context of epidemic and pandemic disease and emphasize that vulnerabi...Loe edasi...
This comprehensive textbook provides occupational therapy and science students and practitioners with a complete overview of the key human occupation concepts, as well as a range of perspectives through which occupational therapy and occupational sc...Loe edasi...
This collection explores communication differences in individuals with sensory impairment/loss relevant to health and education students and professionals. This book is a valuable resource for scholars, educators, and clinicians interested in eviden...Loe edasi...
This book provides a comprehensive approach to the perspectives, lived experiences, and socio-cultural beliefs of Indigenous scholars regarding disabilities through a distinctions-based approach....Loe edasi...
Animal-Assisted School Counseling (AASC) is a hands-on resource that provides invaluable information for school counselors interested in partnering with a therapy animal on campus to help students meet social and emotional goals....Loe edasi...
From intergalactic travel to the daily commute, enter this book and be transported to wonderful worlds where art and life intertwine and your ideas of both are upended....Loe edasi...
Advertising Disability invites Cultural Disability Studies to consider how advertising, as one of the most ubiquitous forms of popular culture, shapes attitudes towards disability....Loe edasi...
First published in 1985, the programme described in this book had developed over 25 years at the Royal Newcastle Hospital, Australia. It grew in response to the practical needs of patients who, having been treated by conventional means, were left wi...Loe edasi...
This book brings into conversation ideas from social theory with thick descriptions of the everyday life of a middle-aged man with learning disabilities and autism....Loe edasi...
This book centres and explores postcolonial theory, which looks at issues of power, economics, politics, religion, and culture and how these elements work in relation to colonial supremacy....Loe edasi...
This timely book explores an eco-feminist approach to dance movement psychotherapy, with an emphasis on the posthuman possibilities of differently enabled bodies and fostering social, political and environmental justice....Loe edasi...
Speech and Silence in Contemporary Childrens Literature brings a fresh perspective to a central literary questionWho speaks?by examining a variety of represented silences....Loe edasi...
Disability is history and futurity, culture and society, practice and theory, work and play, an immense desire for life by which body and mind are dragged kicking and screaming into each and every new day....Loe edasi...
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....Loe edasi...
The collective volume seeks to respond to these questions by exploring crip time in disability performance as both a concept and a phenomenon....Loe edasi...
Giving and Taking Voice in Learning Disabled Theatre offers unique insight into the question of voice in learning disabled theatre and what is gained and lost in making performance. It is grounded in the authors eighteen years of making theatre wit...Loe edasi...
Plays of Our Own is the first anthology of its kind containing an eclectic range of plays by Deaf and hard-of-hearing writers. These writers have made major, positive contributions to world drama or Deaf theatre arts....Loe edasi...
This practical resource is designed to help professionals, parents and carers on their journey to independence with children and young people with vision impairments. Easy to dip in and out of, it offers a wealth of practical strategies and activiti...Loe edasi...
This text explores the life of the authors brother who has dealt with the effects of a severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) for over four decades. It recounts the institutional, psychological, and social labyrinths he and his family have navigated fo...Loe edasi...
This book explores how being disabled originates in the physical world, social representations and rules, and historical power relationsthe interplay of which render bodies normal or not....Loe edasi...
Andrew Tillyard had a full and active life until a vehicle crash changed it all. He sustained a serious head injury and was airlifted to the hospital where he worked, having only just survived. In this book, he recounts the raw, uncompromising strug...Loe edasi...
First published in 1986, Handicapping Conditions in Children provides an accessible overview of a wide range of handicapping conditions and their remediation, and gives a balanced perspective on the medical, educational and social issues....Loe edasi...
The Social Exclusion of Incarcerated Women with Cognitive Disabilities presents a theoretical and practical exploration of the links between social exclusion, cognitively disabled women, and incarceration, and how these intersect to create and perpe...Loe edasi...
Your Voice with Dyslexia and other SpLDs is an essential guide to living with the various specific learning difficulties. The book provides readers with a practical guide to expressing and developing ideas and feelings....Loe edasi...
Inclusivity and Equality in Performance Training focuses on neuro and physical difference and dis/ability in the teaching of performance and associated studies. It offers nineteen practitioners research-based teaching strategies, aimed to enhance eq...Loe edasi...
Comprised of chapters written by notable experts in the field, Organizational Behavior Management Approaches for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, provides an up-to-date, comprehensive assessment of OBM-IDD....Loe edasi...
Using sources from a wide variety of print and digital media, this book discusses the need for ample and healthy portrayals of disability and neurodiversity in the media, as the primary way that most people learn about conditions....Loe edasi...
