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• Author(s): Jennifer L. Erkulwater • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Social Services & WelfareThe recent history of the American welfare state has been viewed with di...

• Author(s): Nicole Markotic • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Literary and filmic depictions of the disabled reinforce an "ableist" ideology that classifies ...

• Author(s): Roderick Nicolson | Angela Fawcett • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: NeuropsychologyA unique overview of research on dyslexia and an account of the underlying causes at cognitive, brain, and neural system...

• Author(s): Jl Schatz | Amber E. George • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Disability A mainstay of modern life, the global media gives out information about disabilities that is often inac...

• Author(s): Susanne M. Bruyère • Publisher: Labor and Employment Research Association • Publisher Imprint: Labor and Employment Research Association • BISAC: People with DisabilitiesNearly three decades after the passage of the Americans with Di...

• Author(s): Derrick Armstrong • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Special Education - Physical DisabilitiesRecent legislation - the 1981 and 1993 Education Acts - have emphasized the need for parents to work...

• Author(s): Charles R. Callanan • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Parenting - General

• Author(s): Terry Thomason | Jr. Burton John F. | Douglas E. Hyatt • Publisher: Labor and Employment Research Association • Publisher Imprint: Labor and Employment Research Association • BISAC: Labor & EmploymentThis volume examines question...

• Author(s): Jacob Stratman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Disability is a growing reality. According to the United States Census Bureau, approximately 57 million people--19 perc...

• Author(s): Susanne M. Bruyere • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial RelationsThis book is about the employment of people with disabilities in the United States and the important role of employer p...

• Author(s): Guy Cumberbatch | Ralph Negrine • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: DisabilityFirst published in 1992, Images of Disability on Television examines the frequency and nature of disability on British and Ameri...

• Author(s): Marja Evelyn Mogk • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General This collection of 19 new essays by 21 authors from the United States, the UK, Canada, Australia and India fo...

• Author(s): William Roth • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Medical - General As William Roth was taking his first steps, members of his family were caught up in the Nazi Holocaust. At age ...

• Author(s): Irene Ingersoll • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Schools - Levels - Higher The demanding workload and fast pace of college often overwhelm students. Without access to the righ...

• Author(s): Kay Harris Kriegsman | Sara Palmer • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Children with Special NeedsIf you have a child with a physical disability, how can you plan y...

• Author(s): Edlyn Vallejo Peña • Publisher: Toplight Books • Publisher Imprint: Toplight Books • BISAC: Psychopathology - Autism Ten autistic self-advocates share their experiences with alternative forms of communication such as rapid prompting ...

• Author(s): Edward D. Berkowitz | Larry DeWitt • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Social Services & WelfareThe Other Welfare offers the first comprehensive history of ...

• Author(s): Meryl Alper • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Social AspectsHow communication technologies meant to empower people with speech disorders—to give voice to the voiceless—are still subject to disempo...

• Author(s): Ronald E. Nomeland | Melvia M. Nomeland • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Disability The deaf community in the West has endured radical changes in the past centuries. This work...

• Author(s): Zaira Cattaneo | Tomaso Vecchi • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: OphthalmologyAn investigation of the effects of blindness and other types of visual deficit on cognitive abilities. Can a blind person see?...

• Author(s): G. Thomas Couser • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Reference"My primary concern is with the ethics of representing vulnerable subjects--persons who are liable to exposure by ...

• Author(s): Maria Cristina Galmarini • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Russia - General"Doesn't an educated person--simple and working, sick and with a sick child--do...

• Author(s): Laurence B. Leonard • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: SpeechThe landmark reference in the field, completely updated: a comprehensive treatment of a disorder that is more prevalent than autism.Chil...

• Author(s): Ruth Bienstock Anolik • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General The Gothic mode, typically preoccupied by questions of difference and otherness, consistently imagines the Other...

• Author(s): Karen Nakamura • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & Social"This is a terrific book: moving, clear, and compassionate. It not only illustrates the w...

• Author(s): Karen Nakamura • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Mental Health"This is a terrific book: moving, clear, and compassionate. It not only illustrates the way psychiatric illness ...

• Author(s): David L. Porter • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This book profiles 24 athletes who overcame seemingly insurmountable medical odds to attain athletic success. Each pro...

• Author(s): Rick Swaine • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Few baseball fans are aware of the number of players with disabilities who have succeeded in the majors. Much o...

• Author(s): Claire L. Shaw • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Russia - GeneralIn Deaf in the USSR, Claire L. Shaw asks what it meant to be deaf in a culture that was founded on a radicall...

• Author(s): Roger S. Gottlieb • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Religion, Politics & StateRoger S. Gottlieb is internationally known for his groundbreaking stud...

• Author(s): Roger S. Gottlieb • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Religion, Politics & StateRoger S. Gottlieb is internationally known for his groundbreaking stud...

• Author(s): John W. Krakauer | S. Thomas Carmichael • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: NeuroscienceAn account of the neurobiology of motor recovery in the arm and hand after stroke by two experts in the field. Stroke ...

• Author(s): Helen Irlen • Publisher: Tarcherperigee • Publisher Imprint: Tarcherperigee • BISAC: GeneralThis new edition of Reading by the Colors includes significant breakthroughs and new applications for use with the Irlen Method to aid in the...

• Author(s): Chris Kaposy • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsAn argument that more people should have children with Down syndrome, written from a pro-choice, disability-positive perspecti...

• Author(s): Gloria Paris • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This dramatic memoir recounts one woman's experience with skeletal tuberculosis, which she contracted at the age of five ...

• Author(s): Michael G. Kammen • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775)From the Back CoverFrom the beginning, what has given our culture its distincti...