This book provides a comprehensive outline of the major parent training programs for parents of children with intellectual or developmental disabilities (IDD), including Autism Spectrum Disorder.
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.
*Shortlisted for the Michael Ramsay Prize 2019*In this groundbreaking book, Jill Harshaw explores the spiritual experiences of people with profound intellectual disabilities with regard to their capacity to enjoy life-giving spiritual experiences in their own right.
Physical structure, economic expectation or social relationship norms developed within various cultures can either restrict or support the participation of individuals with disabilities in society.
Naming Adult Autism is one of the first critiques of cultural and medical narratives of Autism to be authored by an adult diagnosed with this condition.
A rediscovered modern classic: a life-affirming account of one man's journey into blindness'A gift to the whole of humanity' Cathy RentzenbrinkDays before the birth of his first son, writer and academic John M.
Drawing on the controversial case of Ashley X, a girl with severe developmental disabilities who received interventionist medical treatment to limit her growth and keep her body forever smalla procedure now known as the Ashley TreatmentReconsidering Intellectual Disability explores important questions at the intersection of disability theory, Christian moral theology, and bioethics.
A rich collection of writing from those negotiating disability in their lives - a group whose voices are not heard often enough My body and its place in the world seemed normal to me.
One of the central and novel convictions of the early Christian movement compared to the existing Greco-Roman beliefs was the dogma of bodily resurrection.
No solo covid por Claudio Calzoni Hay enfermedades que priman en los medios y en las redes sociales mientras que otras muchas quedan relegadas y casi olvidadas, como si fueran pasajeras y poco debilitantes.
Not just covidThere are diseases that take precedence in the media and on social media while many others are set aside and almost forgotten, as if they were temporary and not very debilitating.
This collection of papers comprises over ten papers published in recent years, with topics on new phenomena, new problems, new thinking, and new views in the fields of "e;barrier-free communication"e;, "e;new technologies and new media"e;, "e;Internet and society"e;, etc.
Here, Missouri Hall of Famer and sports educator Jim Aziere has crafted a remarkable true story, a classically American story, about an essential part of his youthful struggles and our own, featuring a one-of-a-kind Kansas City parochial high school called De La Salle Academy that flourished in the years between wars--1941-1959--a time of great social strife in our city.
From the Periphery consists of more than thirty first-person narratives of everyday people who describe what it's like to be treated differently by society because of their disabilities.
From the Periphery consists of more than thirty first-person narratives of everyday people who describe what it's like to be treated differently by society because of their disabilities.
Living a life best described as Hunter Thompson meets Indiana Jones, a young man's fortunes are drastically changed by an early diagnosis of Crohn's disease.
Das Buch bietet gedankliche, emotionale sowie praktische Hilfe für Menschen, die erwachsene autistische trans* Personen in ihrer Transition begleiten sowie für Autist:innen, die sich transident wahrnehmen oder die ihre Geschlechtsidentität in Frage stellen.
Critical Theory and Disability explores social and ontological issues encountered by present-day disabled people, applying ideas from disability studies and phenomenology.
Critical Theory and Disability explores social and ontological issues encountered by present-day disabled people, applying ideas from disability studies and phenomenology.
Creating Livable Communities is an outgrowth of the National Council on Disability's (NCD) interest and recent work in the topic of livable communities for people with disabilities.
This insightful and often witty collection of essays charts the making of a reluctant disability activistincluding his commentary for NPR, the New York Times and elsewhere.
Come, Let Me Guide You explores the intimate communication between author Susan Krieger and her guide dog Teela over the 10-year span of their working life together.
Come, Let Me Guide You explores the intimate communication between author Susan Krieger and her guide dog Teela over the 10-year span of their working life together.
Despite being blinded as a child, Jacques Lusseyran went on to help form a key unit of the French Resistance - and survive the Nazis' Buchenwald concentration camp.
Spread out over many years and many different publications, the late author and activist Marta Russell wrote a number of groundbreaking and insightful essays on the nature of disability and oppression under capitalism.
