Disability and the law

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

2009 wurde die UN-Behindertenrechtskonvention zur gleichberechtigten Teilhabe an der Gesellschaft verabschiedet.

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

The Legal Aid Society's mission is to advance, defend, and enforce the legal rights of low-income and otherwise vulnerable people in order to secure for them the basic necessities of life.

Parental Learning Disability and Children's Needs explores how to effectively assess children in families where one or more parent has a learning disability.

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

This volume offers a rare mix of interpretive chapters and primary sources that will be of value to anyone interested in learning about important disability-related issues and exploring the perspectives of disabled people.

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

In 1988, Sandi and Larry Zobrest sued a suburban Tucson, Arizona, school district that had denied their hearing-impaired son a taxpayer-funded interpreter in his Roman Catholic high school.

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.

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

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.

Disabled people have played a key role in reshaping EU governance, leveraging times of reform to enhance their societal and legislative standing.

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

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

Das UNO-Übereinkommen über die Rechte von Menschen mit Behinderungen (UNO-BRK) gehört zu den Kernabkommen des internationalen Menschenrechtsschutzes.

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

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 considers the governance of autistic defendants and offenders in the UK courts.

The French version of this book was the winner of the 2022 Grand Prix de la Protection Sociale.

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

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

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.

Nolo's Guide to Social Security Disability covers the criteria for getting disability benefits for back problems, heart and cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, autoimmune diseases, mental issues like depression and anxiety, and 200 more medical conditions.

Depression is amorphous.

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

Depression is amorphous.

La monografía que se presenta al lector es un completo estudio de la discapacidad por enfermedad mental tras la reforma operada por la Ley 8/2021, de 2 de junio, por la que se reforma la legislación civil y procesal para el apoyo a las personas con discapacidad jurídica (LRLCYP).

Das Recht auf Selbstbestimmung und Teilhabe prägt die Gesetzgebung für Menschen mit Behinderungen.

Everyone likes to make speculations about Scrounger.

Behinderungsbedingte Aufwendungen sind oft hoch.

Debbie Purdy doesn't want to die.

Este libro destaca la importancia de leyes nacionales y análogas provinciales que contribuyen con la capacitación y difusión de los derechos de las personas con discapacidad.

Este libro pretende desarticular el modelo médico de la discapacidad, que está sostenido por una concepción médica que asocia toda discapacidad a "enfermedad".

La presente obra tiene como finalidad la divulgacion de la discapacidad argentina actualizada describiendo el desarrollo evolutivo desde la construccion biopsicosocial y exponiendo los antecedentes de evolucion de alcance legislativo de su acceso a empleo, salud, transporte, accesibilidad, cultura, justicia, comunicacion, seguridad social, turismo, educacion inclusiva y accesible.

Working Ethics sets out an ethical foundation for professionals and for the professions in a modern, culturally complex society.

Working Ethics sets out an ethical foundation for professionals and for the professions in a modern, culturally complex society.