Disability: Social Aspects

The inspiring life story of a young boy stricken with polio who, through sheer grit, the drive to achieve, and love of the military, overcomes chil...

Assessing the social integration of people with disabilities in an intra-culturally valid yet cross-culturally replicable and comparative manner is...

From Unlikely Mavericks, To Movers And ShakersIn Chasing The Impossible, Rachelle Rutherford, the CEO of Kids On The Move, unravels the gripping st...

THE POWERFUL MEMOIR FROM HARRY POTTER STUNTMAN DAVID HOLMES, WITH A FOREWORD BY DANIEL RADCLIFFE: AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW! As stunt double to D...

As stunt double to Daniel Radcliffe in the Harry Potter film franchise, stuntman David Holmes helped to move J.K. Rowling's era-defining story from...

Sixteen fractures and eight surgeries caused by brittle bone disease could not stop Ummul Kher from cracking the prestigious IAS exam and joining t...

The Story of What Is Broken Is Whole collects for the first time fifty years of writing by Puerto Rican Jewish feminist and radical thinker Aurora ...

The Story of What Is Broken Is Whole collects for the first time fifty years of writing by Puerto Rican Jewish feminist and radical thinker Aurora ...

Although the field of disability services and societal understanding of disability issues have advanced in recent decades there remain controversia...

Disability is of central concern to the developing world but has largely been under-represented in global development debates, discourses and negot...

This book is about the social condition of Deaf people, told through a Deaf womans autobiography and a series of essays investigating how hearing s...

Deaf people are usually regarded by the hearing world as having a lack, as missing a sense. Yet a definition of deaf people based on hearing loss o...

Young people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) often feel uncomfortable and anxious in social situations, but socializing with classmates and co...

This book sets out to restore the concept of healing to its place within and beyond pain medicine, in chapters authored by keynote speakers to the...

Defining the role of a job coach, this book sets out EU-wide training standards for helping people with disabilities gain and maintain meaningful e...

Making new friends at work can be tricky - it's tough to predict how people will react to certain situations. This 'choose your own response' book ...

Risk Assessment in People with Learning Disabilities, Second Edition reflects legislative updates made over the past decade while continuing to dem...

The long-awaited essay collection from one of the most influential voices in disability activism that detonates a bomb in our collective understand...