Search results for “[subject: disability]”

• Author(s): Carlson Licia | Matthew C. Murray • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Social WorkThis ground-breaking volume considers what it means to make claims of disability membership in view of the robust Disability ...

• Author(s): Kimberly A. Slimbaugh Esq • Publisher: Independently Published • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published • BISAC: DisabilityYou've worked hard all of your life. Now, your hard work has left you with a disability. Many people in th...

• Author(s): Len Barton • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThe study of disability has traditionally been influenced mainly by medical and psychological models. The aim of this new text, D...

• Author(s): Michael S. Jeffress • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: DisabilityResearch has long substantiated the fact that living with a disability creates significant and complex challenges to identity neg...

• Author(s): Barbara Fawcett • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: DisabilityFeminist Perspectives on Disability provides a unique introduction to the key debates in relation to both feminism and disability. Th...

• Author(s): Julie Smart • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Psychotherapy - CounselingThis introductory text defines and describes disability, while providing concrete practice guidelines and recommendations...

• Author(s): World Health Organization • Publisher: World Health Organization • Publisher Imprint: World Health Organization • BISAC: Health Care DeliveryFollowing the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, attention has focused o...

• Author(s): Ranu Uniyal • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Feminism & Feminist TheoryFrom the Back CoverThis edited volume brings together contributions on disability studies organized around two themes: literary an...

• Author(s): Spencer Bishins • Publisher: Bishins Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Bishins Publishing • BISAC: DisabilityA former Social Security Administration (SSA) disability decision writer goes behind the scenes to show you why it's so diffic...

• Author(s): Per Koren Solvang • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: DisabilityThe concept of disability is actively used by social justice movements and welfare state systems, but it is often rejected by people involved ...

• Author(s): Orsolini | Margherita • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Education & Psychology • BISAC: Special Education - Learning DisabilitiesUnderstanding Intellectual Disability: A Guide for Profess...

• Author(s): Paul T. Jaeger • Publisher: Praeger Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Praeger Publishers • BISAC: DisabilityDisability is rarely considered a social issue. Scholars tend to discuss it in the abstract; medical personnel view it as a hea...

• Author(s): Sandhya Limaye | Christopher J.Johnstone | Misa Kayama • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge India • Subject: Sociology and AnthropologyThis book critically analyses diverse experiences related to disabilit...

• Author(s): Frank M. Robinson • Publisher: Praeger Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Praeger Publishers • BISAC: Public Policy - Social Services & WelfareEveryone can learn new or more effective coping skills and strategies to deal with times ...

• Author(s): Sharon N. Barnartt | Barbara Altman • Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Emerald Group Publishing • BISAC: Public Policy - Social Services & WelfareDisability can be either an ascribed status or an achieved ...

• Author(s): Roland Meinert • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralAlthough the field of disability services and societal understanding of disability issues have advanced in recent decades the...

• Author(s): John Cullinan | Seán Lyons | Brian Nolan • Publisher: Manchester University Press • Publisher Imprint: Manchester University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Social Services & WelfareThis book brings together research relating to t...

• Author(s): I. Glenn Cohen | Carmel Shachar | Anita Silvers • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Medical Law & LegislationHistorically and across societies people with disabilities ...

• Author(s): Stephanie W. Cawthon • Publisher: Tspa the Self Publishing Agency Inc. • Publisher Imprint: Tspa the Self Publishing Agency Inc. • BISAC: DisabilityDisability Is Human is your gentle guide to accessibility through the lens of real, l...

• Author(s): Karen Soldatic • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Public Policy - Social Services & WelfareDisability is of central concern to the developing world but has largely been under-represented in ...

• Author(s): Pouya Farbod • Publisher: Human Rights Press • Publisher Imprint: Human Rights Press • BISAC: People with DisabilitiesWhat if human rights weren't just a theory-but the heartbeat of disability care?Supporting with Heart is a groundbr...

• Author(s): Chalotte Glintborg • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: DisabilityThis book investigates how being diagnosed with various disabilities impacts on identity. Once diagnosed with a disability, there ...

• Author(s): Michael S. Jeffress • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: DisabilityResearch has long substantiated the fact that living with a disability creates significant and complex challenges to identity neg...

• Author(s): Dan Goodley • Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Sage Publications Ltd • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThis updated edition of what is becoming a classic text in the field of disability studies shows us how disability ...

• Author(s): Loretta Crosby • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • BISAC: DisabilityGetting Social Security Disability Benefits: Your 9 Step Individual Action Pl...

• Author(s): Colin Barnes • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThe second edition of this widely used text has been carefully rewritten to ensure that it is up-to-date with cutting-edge debates, ...

• Author(s): Richard C. Simpson • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: CRC Press • Subject: Engineering • BISAC: Industrial Health & SafetyIncorporating Compass Computer Access Assessment software, Computer Access for People w...

• Author(s): John W. Wilde • Publisher: iUniverse • Publisher Imprint: iUniverse • BISAC: Health Care IssuesThe Disability Journey addresses a subject that is at once timely and timeless, since disabilities will always be with us. Inevitably, dis...

• Author(s): Vivek Singh • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge India • Subject: Sociology and AnthropologyThis book explores the concept of disability through a social, political, cultural, religious, and economics lens...

• Author(s): Tom Shakespeare • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: DisabilityGrouped around four central themes - illness and impairment, disabling processes, care and control, and communication and representat...

• Author(s): Gareth M. Thomas • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: DisabilityMany critical analyses of disability address important 'macro' concerns, but are often far removed from an interactional and micro-l...

• Author(s): Ellen A. Brantlinger • Publisher: Auburn House Pub. Co. • Publisher Imprint: Auburn House Pub. Co. • BISAC: DisabilityBrantlinger discusses the current medical and legal trends in sterilization with special emphasis on people with di...

• Author(s): Helen Jones • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Medical, Nursing and Health Sciences • BISAC: MedicalThis essential text presents the core information that all nursing students and apprentices along with ...

• Author(s): Arie Rimmerman • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Family Law - GeneralThis book explores the status and scope of family policies related to households of children with dis...

• Author(s): Michael Rembis • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: HistoryDisability history exists outside of the institutions, healers, and treatments it often brings to mind. It is a history ...

• Author(s): Jackie Gulland • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: CriminologyFrom the Back CoverThis book uses previously unknown archive materials to explore the meaning of the term 'incapable of work' over a hun...