Disability: Social Aspects

Winner of the DHA 2014 Outstanding Publication Award. Since the end of the 20th century, «disability» has become a new and effective research inst...

The Routledge Companion to Disability and Work explores the realities faced by disabled individuals in the workplace and beyond. Despite enduring s...

Remapping an Ableist World examines the forces shaping our lives in an able capitalist world. It draws on examples including human enhancement and ...

Remapping an Ableist World examines the forces shaping our lives in an able capitalist world. It draws on examples including human enhancement and ...

This book compiles analyses of various political and ideological expressions of class struggle within the ruling capitalist class during the mo-nop...

Forty-five contributions from renowned international specialists in the field provide readers with expert analysis of the core issues related to th...

How can health and social care services better serve people with disabilities? How can we meaningfully challenge ableist practice? What would a tru...

To think of PDA as merely involving demand avoidance is to me akin to thinking of tigers as merely having stripes.This book is a unique window into...

Estimates suggest that up to 20% of employees, customers and clients might have a neurodivergent condition - such as dyslexia, autism, Asperger's, ...

This collection of narratives from autistic adults is structured around their decades of experience of life, covering 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60 and 70...

Exploring contemporary theory and practice surrounding loss and bereavement for people with intellectual disabilities (ID), this book brings togeth...

This insightful book investigates the experiences of seven women with autism as they transition from childhood to adulthood, and how they make sens...

Personalisation means people, their families and carers having choice and control over their support on a day-to-day basis. To deliver personalised...

People with learning difficulties are considerably more likely to experience sexual violence than those without, and for this reason they are often...

Child Protection and Parents with a Learning Disability provides the practical knowledge that professionals need in order to understand common inte...

This book demonstrates very clearly how the personalisation of support and services works in practice. The authors describe how Jennie, a young per...

This best practice guide provides a blueprint for managing seamless transitions between services for young people aged 16-25 with additional needs,...

Challenging existing approaches to autism that limit, and sometimes damage, the individuals who attract and receive the label, this book questions ...

Domestic violence is encountered by disabled women more frequently than non-disabled women, yet disabled women are less likely to receive appropria...

This book provides a comprehensive outline of the major parent training programs for parents of children with intellectual or developmental disabil...

Examining representations of mental difference, this collection focuses on the ways that adaptations (including remakes, reboots, and other example...

Most histories of wounded Civil War veterans construe them as feminized men whose manhood has suffered due to their inability to provide for and ra...

Disability impacts everyone in some way. Approximately 10-20% of the worlds population live with disability, and the associated issues affect not j...

This book focuses on injustices that have taken place to deaf people and the sign language community in Finland from 1900.For decades, memories and...

This book presents research on disabled children and young people in sport, physical activity and physical education settings using empirical data ...

Using an autoethnographic approach, as well as multiple first-person accounts from disabled writers, artists, and scholars, Jan Doolittle Wilson de...

The relationship between metal and disability is distinctive. Persisting across metals sub-genres is a preoccupation with exploring and questioning...

In Bodyminds Reimagined Sami Schalk traces how black women's speculative fiction complicates the understanding of bodymindsthe intertwinement of th...

Disability Justice in Public Health Emergencies is the first book to highlight contributions from critical disability scholarship to the fields of ...

Disability Justice in Public Health Emergencies is the first book to highlight contributions from critical disability scholarship to the fields of ...

In Black Disability Politics Sami Schalk explores how issues of disability have been and continue to be central to Black activism from the 1970s to...

In Black Disability Politics Sami Schalk explores how issues of disability have been and continue to be central to Black activism from the 1970s to...

Conventional wisdom dictates that individuals who learn American Sign Language (ASL) at a young age possess a higher level of proficiency than thos...

In Bodyminds Reimagined Sami Schalk traces how black women's speculative fiction complicates the understanding of bodymindsthe intertwinement of th...

The Routledge Handbook of Visual Impairment examines current debates as well as cross-examining traditionally held beliefs around visual impairment...

When you think of a person with dwarfism, what image springs to mind? Now, hold onto that image and consider how you are expected to respond to it....

When trust breaks down, how do we begin to fix it?Set against the controversial history of genetic research into autism, from the Spectrum 10k stud...

This book explores the tensions between aesthetics, gender, and disability in contemporary digital media installations and performance art.Notions ...