Disability: Social Aspects

Virtual rehabilitation has been the focus of considerable research for many years, but the recent upsurge in consumer-ready virtual reality hardwar...

At least one in seven people are thought to be neurodivergent. So what exactly is neurodiversity? What does 'executive functioning' mean? What are ...

Naming Adult Autism is one of the first critiques of cultural and medical narratives of Autism to be authored by an adult diagnosed with this condi...

The collective social history of deaf people in America has yet to be written. While scholars have focused their attention on residential schools f...

Disability: The Basics is an engaging and accessible introduction to disability which explores the broad historical, social, environmental, economi...

Historically, interventions designed to impact the lives of disabled people were predicated upon deficits-based models of disability. This began to...

The second edition of this widely used text has been carefully rewritten to ensure that it is up-to-date with cutting-edge debates, evidence, and p...

In Crip Spacetime, Margaret Price intervenes in the competitive, productivity-focused realm of academia by sharing the everyday experiences of disa...

In Crip Spacetime, Margaret Price intervenes in the competitive, productivity-focused realm of academia by sharing the everyday experiences of disa...

Reflects the most significant and fundamental shifts in the experience of disability in human history With the release of its eighth edition, thi...

This book provides a comprehensive investigation of housing issues for disabled people from a social model perspective. Documenting historical and ...

Disability is not our worst-case scenario our worst-case scenario would be its annihilation. This is the starting point for this powerful collecti...

Intersex and/as/is/with disability. The connections between intersex and disability deserve nuanced attention if we are to strengthen intersex huma...

How do students with learning disabilities or emotional and behavioral disorders fare in adulthood? Are their rates of employment, graduation from ...

Disability can be either an ascribed status or an achieved status and its combination with other statuses will affect the person's social experienc...

Physical structure, economic expectation or social relationship norms developed within various cultures can either restrict or support the particip...

By focusing on the politics of disability as a pillar of Czechoslovak identity, The Politics of Disability in Interwar and Socialist Czechoslovakia...

The second edition of this landmark textbook is distinguished by its pioneering approach to encompassing disability and aging policies under one um...

Emerging disabilities are disabling conditions that are new to medical science, often medically debated, and lacking in known etiology; or those in...

Experiencing Disability Stigma in Ghana: Impact on Individuals and Caregivers explores the roots of disability stigma and discrimination in Ghana a...

Into the twenty-first century, millions of disabled people and people experiencing mental distress were segregated from the rest of society and con...

Outlining the key developments of the Disability Hate Crime policy agenda, Seamus Taylor brings together a unique consideration of the theoretical ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound and potentially ever-lasting impact on our economy, society, and the way that we live. In response to this...

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound and potentially ever-lasting impact on our economy, society, and the way that we live. In response to this...