Disability and the law

Quickly acquire the practical coverage and guidance you need to understand the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) governs how states and public agencies provide early intervention, special education, and related services to children with disabilities.

Child Protection and Parents with a Learning Disability provides the practical knowledge that professionals need in order to understand common intellectual disabilities and how they might affect parenting capability.

Special Education Law, Sixth Edition, written by Laura Rothstein and Scott F.

This volume studies the implications of the right to inclusive education in human rights law for disability law, policy and practice.

Provides an international comparative study of the implementation of disability rights law and policy focused on the emerging principles of self-determination and personalisation.

Hilfen für Menschen mit BehinderungViele denken im Zusammenhang mit einer Behinderung oder Schwerbehinderung an einen Rollstuhlfahrer, einen blinden oder krebskranken Menschen oder andere Personen mit sichtbaren oder angeborenen Beeinträchtigungen.

This book argues that communities need better planning to be safely navigated by people with mobility impairment and to facilitate intergenerational aging in place.

This is the first collection to examine the legal dynamics of deinstitutionalisation.

Disability, Human Rights, and Information Technology addresses the global issue of equal access to information and communications technology (ICT) by persons with disabilities.

This book examines the extent to which regulatory frameworks for information and communication technologies safeguard the rights of persons with disabilities as citizenship rights.

This book contains a global comparative study of implementation and monitoring mechanisms for national disability strategies.

Integrates research, theory, and practice in supported decision-making and describes implications for supports provision in the disability field.

Introduced in 2008, the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has existed for nearly a decade.

This book provides an overview of the progress and continuing disparities faced by people with disabilities around the world.

This treatise is a detailed article-by-article examination of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).

This book responds to a previously unmet need: unlocking the mysteries of Social Security disability programs and providing medical and mental health clinicians, as well as advocates, with the information necessary to act in the best interests of their clients.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of how to attain equality in the area of disability discrimination.

The concept of reasonable adjustment (alternatively known as reasonable accommodation) is rapidly gaining significance for countries throughout Europe and beyond.

These original essays focus on fundamental issues and practical implications of the relationship between disability and the good human life.

Examines the legislative oversight in the regulation of prenatal and preimplantation testing technologies across a number of jurisdictions.

Persons with disabilities report high levels of harassment worldwide, often based on intersectional characteristics such as race, gender and age.

This book provides a ground-breaking discussion of the human right to make decisions in our own lives.

Every day, large numbers of altruistic individuals, in the absence of any legal duty, provide substantial and essential services for elderly and disabled people.

Written by two nationally recognized experts, this book provides a comprehensive review of the legal and clinical aspects of the death penalty as it relates to intellectual disability.

Righting Educational Wrongs brings together the work of scholars from the fields of disability studies in education and law to examine contemporary struggles around in-clusion and access to education.

This book highlights and responds to core questions related to social inclusion of people with disabilities nationally and internationally.

This is a comprehensive comparative legal, practical and theoretical analysis of workplace inequalities experienced by workers with psychosocial disabilities.

This book analyses the impact of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) on EU non-discrimination law and governance.

Integrates research, theory, and practice in supported decision-making and describes implications for supports provision in the disability field.

This book offers an approach to care and support policy prioritizing gender equality, disability human rights and dignity for all.

This straightforward book explains the introduction of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA) and its code of practice (COP) as part of the Children and Families Act 2014 and the accompanying SEND COP in England.

This is a comprehensive comparative legal, practical and theoretical analysis of workplace inequalities experienced by workers with psychosocial disabilities.

Wounded soldiers, injured workers, handicapped adults, and physically impaired children have all been affected by legislation that reduces their opportunities to live a functional life.

This book discusses American and European policies surrounding deinstitutionalization and community living, including Articles 12 and 19 of the UNCRPD.

This book explores how restrictive copyright laws deny access to information for the print disabled, despite equality laws protecting access.

With genetic technologies advancing rapidly, Aisling de Paor examines the urgent need for an EU-level framework to regulate genetic information.

Explores family policies related to households of children with disabilities, providing an in-depth, evidence-based review of legal, programmatic issues.

This book provides an overview of the progress and continuing disparities faced by people with disabilities around the world.

This book examines the extent to which regulatory frameworks for information and communication technologies safeguard the rights of persons with disabilities as citizenship rights.

The book identifies and analyzes important yet insufficiently explored moral issues in k-12 special education.

These original essays focus on fundamental issues and practical implications of the relationship between disability and the good human life.

This book highlights and responds to core questions related to social inclusion of people with disabilities nationally and internationally.

This collection brings together leading international socio-legal and medico-legal scholars to explore the dilemma of how to support legal capacity in theory and practice.

A guide to real-world applications of The 2010 Americans with Disabilities Act Standards for Accessible Design Applying the ADA helps architects and developers understand better how the rules for eliminating barriers in the built environment apply to everyday life and how to best implement them in the design and construction of a broad variety of buildings and facilities.

Special Education Law, Sixth Edition, written by Laura Rothstein and Scott F.

Examines the legislative oversight in the regulation of prenatal and preimplantation testing technologies across a number of jurisdictions.

Increasing numbers of people with autism and other developmental disabilities are being convicted of sex offences, resulting in draconian and public punishment.