Disability: Social Aspects

Teaching Students with Learning Disabilities at Beacon College is a collection of essays written by professors and learning specialists (educationa...

Teaching Students with Learning Disabilities at Beacon College is a collection of essays written by professors and learning specialists (educationa...

In this book, Sarah Mayberry Scott bridges the seemingly insurmountable divide between sound studies and deaf studies by considering the persuasive...

Reveals how knowledge from the margins shapes infrastructuresMinding the gap while using a wheelchair on the London Underground goes beyond a sharp...

Reveals how knowledge from the margins shapes infrastructuresMinding the gap while using a wheelchair on the London Underground goes beyond a sharp...

The largest sources of federal funding for elementary and secondary education are the Elementary and Secondary Act (ESEA), and the Individuals with...

The authors of this book present current research in the study of the performance, impact on life quality and assistance in the activities of daily...

This book is an in-depth look at 12 incredible people with LD and dyslexia whose lives are characterised by major accomplishments and contributions...

Students with disabilities face several longstanding challenges accessing services that may assist them as they transition from high school into po...

This book chronicles the development of the institutional model in Massachusetts with the well-intended beginnings, the decline and subsequent hero...

This book examines the importance of social media and other information technologies in connecting people to job opportunities. Not surprisingly, d...

In recent years, there has been a blossoming use of advanced technologies across a wide range of applications in the general area of health care an...

States and localities have not invested adequate resources, planning, or training to meet architectural and physical access compliance standards re...

The Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program, enacted in 1974, is a needs-based program that provides cash benefits designed to ensure a minimum ...

The use of virtual reality for learning, training, and rehabilitation for people with special needs has been on the rise in recent years. Virtual r...

A collection of compelling, hard-hitting first-person essays, poems, and photos that expose what our punitive social systems do to so many American...

'Groundbreaking ... [provides] a deep history of the invention of the 'normal' mind as one of the most oppressive tools of capitalism. To read it i...

'A masterful intervention that is particularly pertinent for an age of austerity, pandemic, and rising living costs' Robert Chapman, author of Empi...

When bioethicist and professor Ashley Shew became a self-described hard-of-hearing chemo-brained amputee with Crohns disease and tinnitus, there wa...

John Tyes job at British Airways was supposed to be only temporary, a way for him to pass the summer before starting university. Instead, it would ...

Two families at war and Alice finds herself caught in the middle. Can she re-write a story as old as time?When cutbacks force Alice out of her assi...

This is the first book to address the issue of ageing after a long life with disability. It breaks new ground through its particular life course pe...

Losing her smile to synkinesis after unresolved Bells palsy changed how Faye Linda Wachs was seen by others and her internal experience of self. In...

Losing her smile to synkinesis after unresolved Bells palsy changed how Faye Linda Wachs was seen by others and her internal experience of self. In...

Service dogs play an important role in society, assisting their handlers in leading independent, fulfilling lives. These amazing dogs are traine...

'Uncompromising... A masterful writer poised for even more great success' - Forest Whitaker, Academy award-winning actorA memoir, penned with one g...

This treatise is a detailed article-by-article examination of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Each...

Guided by developmental cultural psychology, this volume focuses on understandings and responses to disability and stigmatization from the perspect...

Thomas K Holcomb's highly successful textbook on Deaf culture has been fully revised and updated in this second edition. The changes reflect those ...

AN EXTRAORDINARILY MOVING AND ORIGINAL MEMOIR OF GROWING UP GAY AND DISABLED IN 1980s LONDONSHORTLISTED FOR THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE...

People with disabilities are underrepresented in STEM fields, and all too often, they face isolation and ableism in academia. Uncharted is a collec...

This innovative book places the sensory experiences of autistic individuals within a sociological framework. It instigates new discussions around s...