Bohemian composer Bohuslav Martinu (1890-1959) was exceptionally prolific, composing over 400 imaginative, well-crafted, and diverse pieces, including symphonies, operas, ballet scores, and other orchestral works.
One of the great prophetic figures of our time was Jean Vanier, founder of the L'Arche communities, where those with and without disabilities share life together.
This book develops a care justice framework to critique and disrupt current policies and reframe a policy blueprint for elevating a just organization of care for unpaid family caregivers and underpaid home care workers assisting older adults.
This book presents a timely and innovative exploration of one of the first human rights articles about data production and processing: the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities article 31, 'Statistics and data collection'.
This book is about the social condition of Deaf people, told through a Deaf woman's autobiography and a series of essays investigating how hearing societies relate to Deaf people.
Personalisation in mental health services is a subject that encompasses many areas and meanings, from social inclusion principles through to a simple direct payment, and as such this handbook aims ot assist service users, carers and professionals to work through the themes and issues as related to recovery based mental health care and support.
This book explores the development of modern transatlantic prosthetic industries in nineteenth and twentieth centuries and reveals how the co-alignment of medicine, industrial capitalism, and social norms shaped diverse lived experiences of prosthetic technologies and in turn, disability identities.
This handbook comprises contributions from key staff working with In Control as well as from colleagues drawn from other leading organisations, partners and allies.
First published in 1985, Disability in Modern Children's Fiction presents a case for the inclusion of a planned element in the mainstream curriculum, specifically designed to encourage positive attitudes and actions towards children with special needs, and for utilising the possibilities inherent in fiction for helping all children to explore their thoughts and feelings in this area.
In Delicious Conversations Phoebe Caldwell offers us her personal insights into how we can experience intimacy with those on the autistic spectrum, based on years of experience working in the field.
This book examines how vision impaired walkers experience and engage with the English countryside through five sensory activities: walking, seeing, listening, seeing in the mind's eye, and touching.
This handbook focuses on intervention strategies for anxiety and depression in people with learning disabilities and explores the full range of anxiety and depressive illnesses, capturing manifestation, assessment and biopsychosocial models.
Managers and professionals involved in implementing change, whether it is a strategic change initiative or operational adjustments to day to day practice, this practical resource is to be used as a guide to understanding some aspects of the change process, from a preliminary assessment of the need for change, through to implementation and evaluation.
Es ist der dritte Fall des Ermittlerteams um Carmen Siebert, diagnostizierte Autistin und Polizistin aus Überzeugung und mit Herzblut, und Bernadette Pohlmann.
This book is about people with disabilities (PWDs) and the extraordinary talents they have that can contribute towards the world economy generally and that of Southern and Central Africa in particular.
Disability, Society and Theology: Voices from Africa is the result of a workshop which brought together African theologians, persons with disabilities and disability expertise in the Region to prepare resource materials to enrich the disability study process in the context of the Africa region.
La presente obra tiene como finalidad la divulgación de la discapacidad argentina actualizada describiendo el desarrollo evolutivo desde la construcción biopsicosocial y exponiendo los antecedentes de evolución de alcance legislativo de su acceso a empleo, salud, transporte, accesibilidad, cultura, justicia, comunicación, seguridad social, turismo, educación inclusiva y accesible.
En Argentina la implementación de programas fundados en la educación inclusiva de estudiantes con discapacidad en los niveles de escolaridad obligatoria sigue siendo una deuda del sistema educativo.
MANY DAWNS is about the continuing journey of individuals and organisations in Singapore to improve the quality of life of intellectually disabled people (IDPs) in Singapore.
Millions of people, in the US and other parts of the world, face the grim prospect of losing their driving privileges, their mobility, and to a great extent their freedom, due to a deterioration in their eyesight or a disabling eye disease.
Esta obra se constituye en un trabajo importante en el que se busca aportar a la problematica actual que vive la sociedad, referida a la brecha existente entre el conocimiento cientifico y la realidad, en este caso, en el denominado campo de conocimiento de la discapacidad, resultado posiblemente de la falta de trabajo articulado entre la academia, la sociedad y los tomadores de decisiones a nivel politico.
El evento conmemorativo denominado Tres lustros de estudios sobre desarrollo humano, (dis)capacidades y diversidades en la Universidad Nacional de Colombia (2003-2018) constituye el origen más próximo de este libro.
Este libro, es el resultado de la investigación que reconstruyó y analizó el conjunto de sentidos que conforman el mundo de la persona con discapacidad con el fin de comprender su realidad y, de esta manera, aportar elementos que en el futuro puedan ser utilizados para nuevas investigaciones sobre el tema y el diseño de estrategias más acordes y pertinentes con dicha complejidad, que faciliten a estas personas su integración social y su construcción como sujetos.
El ámbito penitenciario es uno de los contextos institucionales más invisibilizados, desconocidos y discriminados en los países del tercer mundo, y Colombia.
"La medicina contemporánea es capaz de llevarnos hasta edades muy avanzadas, con una alta probabilidad de que sobrevengan enfermedades crónicas e incurables como cáncer, diabetes o demencias.
La discapacidad se consolida de forma muy diversa en cada caso particular, influyendo en ella aspectos de índole personal, familiar, social y del entorno.
Sixteen fractures and eight surgeries caused by brittle bone disease could not stop Ummul Kher from cracking the prestigious IAS exam and joining the civil services.
A large number of people with mobility handicaps have difficulty using transport systems and this number will increase significantly over the coming decades.
This book examines a wide array of labour market and social protection programmes aimed at people with disabilities and analyses the relationship between policies and outcomes across twenty OECD countries.
This is one of the first single-authored books to utilise Critical Disability Studies and the lens of embodiment to comprehensively unveil, explore, and celebrate disability in Ptolemaic Egypt and the Hellenistic world through a critical examination of art, artefacts, texts, and human remains.
Al final de su vida única, Stephen Hawking solo podía mover el párpado de su ojo derecho, pero continuó dando conferencias y renovó una reserva para un vuelo espacial.
