Disability: Social Aspects

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...

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...