Disability: Social Aspects

Disability and Discourse applies and explains Conversation Analysis (CA), an established methodology for studying communication, to explore what ha...

What does it mean to live with life-threatening illness? How does one respond to loss? Freuds Jaw and Other Lost Objects attempts to answer these q...

Leading ethicist and pastoral theologian Brian Brock reflects on the challenge of disability, refuting widely held misconceptions and helping reade...

Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) is a social insurance program that provides benefits to insured workers under the full retirement age w...

Societal research has shown that there is a direct correlation between income disparities and health disparities. In other words: the poorer the po...

Youth with disabilities face several challenges as they transition out of high school. In addition to the social and emotional challenges associate...

This textbook brings together a wide range of expert voices from the field of disability studies and the disabled peoples movement to tackle the es...

Students with Asperger's Syndrome (AS) frequently find the school environment challenging, despite often having a high level of academic ability, b...

Dyslexia is a complex condition that affects not only learning but every part of life. Experience or fear of social stigma can lead people with...

Intensive Interaction is a highly effective approach for communicating and developing social interaction and engagement with difficult-to-reach ind...

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The heartwarming and hilarious part-memoir, part-guide from comedian and father-of-six Ashley Blaker, on parenting, adoption and raisi...

This reflective and evidence-based book will equip students as well as professionals who work with people with learning disabilities in primary, se...

Losing a loved one and coping with the subsequent adjustments that follow are a difficult fact of life, but people with learning disabilities face ...

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The lives of youth with disabilities have changed radically in the past fifty years. Youth who are coming of age right now are the first generation...

The title of this collection of essays, Sex and Disability, unites two terms that the popular imagination often regards as incongruous. The major t...

Imagine a world without sight. Is it dark and gloomy? Is it terrifying and isolating? Or is it simply a state of not seeing, which we have demon...