Disability: social aspects

Awarded the 2022 American Educational Studies Association Critics' Choice Book Award.

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee on Improving the Disability Decision Process has been working since it first met in January 2005 to develop recommendations to the Social Security Administration (SSA) on how to improve the medical aspects of its disability determination process.

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.

Rapidly growing numbers of mentally ill homeless present a significant challenge for care- givers everywhere.

What does it mean to engage in Deaf Studies and who gets to define the field?

First published in 1977, this book focuses on the disability of spina bifida in children.

Engaging, funny, and unflinching essays about coming of age as a transplant patient and living each day as a giftAdina Talve-Goodman was born with a congenital heart condition and survived multiple operations over the course of her childhood, including a heart transplant at age nineteen.

The Christian gospel compels humanity to embrace deeper ways of being human together that will overcome false divisions and exclusions in search of flourishing and graced communities.

Rapidly growing numbers of mentally ill homeless present a significant challenge for care- givers everywhere.

There has been growing interest in research on disability sport internationally, yet little research has concentrated on the development of disability sport in China.

"e;We each have Skype accounts and use them to discuss [Moby-Dick] face to face.

This concise, integrated introduction to the complex relationship between disability and the media offers a roadmap to the key areas of participation, access and representation.

This book brings much needed attention to disabled anthropologists, making clear that "e;disabled"e; and "e;anthropologist"e; belong together.

This new edition of the milestone book Education, Disability and Social Policy outlines critical debates in education concerning the position and experiences of disabled children and young people within a contemporary policy context.

A crucial contemporary dynamic around children and young people in the Global North is the multiple ways that have emerged to monitor their development, behaviour and character.

Developmental disabilities are the most numerous of disabilities, and they are exceptionally complex.

Efforts to reduce discrimination and increase diversity on campuses, coupled with shrinking budgets causing administrators to devote more resources toward recruiting and retaining students with disabilities, are fuelling an explosion of research in the area of inclusive education.

What can society learn about disability through the way it is portrayed in TV, films and plays?

Employees with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) may be hugely beneficial to a workforce, but it can be difficult for individuals with no formal training to manage these employees successfully.

Disability studies has engaged with discourse analysis in key works both from the UK and the USA.

Comedy and humour have frequently played a key role in disabled people's lives, for better or for worse.

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound and potentially ever-lasting impact on our economy, society, and the way that we live.

The volume addresses the pertinent need to examine childhood trauma revolving around themes of war, sexual abuse, and disability.

Medicine, Health and Being Human begins a conversation to explore how the medical has defined us: that is, the ways in which perspectives of medicine and health have affected cultural understandings of what it means to be human.

This volume puts disability and labour at the centre of historical enquiry.

How can employers develop their hiring processes for neurodivergent people and best support people with diverse neurotypes to thrive in the workplace?

This book enables readers to confidently discuss and understand disability as part of the broader societal conversation on diversity, equity, and inclusion.

With increasing numbers of students with invisible disabilities attending college and university, faculty and staff find themselves faced with new challenges.

In the United States alone, there are roughly three million individuals living with a developmental disability, but less than a third are active in the labor market.

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What is the impact of an infant's diminished hearing on the infant and its parents?

Presenting cutting-edge research and scholarship, this extensive volume covers everything from abstract theorising about the meanings of responsibility and how we blame, to analysing criminal law and justice responses, and factors that impact individual responsibility.

Drawing on rehabilitation publications, novels by both famous and obscure American writers, and even the prosthetic masks of a classically trained sculptor, Great War Prostheses in American Literature and Culture addresses the ways in which prosthetic devices were designed, promoted, and depicted in America in the years during and after the First World War.

Part of Palgrave's Interagency Working in Health and Social Care series, this book explores the policy and practice which frames work with disabled people.

Autism in women and girls is still not widely understood, and is often misrepresented or even overlooked.

This book provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary examination of disability, hate crime and violence, exploring its emergence on the policy agenda.

This book is the first on the history of both physical and mental disabilities in the Middle East and North Africa during Ottoman rule.

The number of older war veterans receiving disability benefits is steadily growing and is predicted to rise in the next decade.

Filling an important gap in design history, Another Modernism examines how domestic space was conceived by the US home economics movement in the first half of the 20th century.

Nominated for the Foundation of Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2018In the UK and beyond, Down's syndrome screening has become a universal programme in prenatal care.

Hearing loss is a common chronic condition which is often poorly recognized but can have multiple negative impacts, not just on the lives of those directly affected, but also those living with them.

The volume addresses the pertinent need to examine childhood trauma revolving around themes of war, sexual abuse, and disability.

Invalid Modernism contributes to an intersectional moment in disability studies by looking at modernist aesthetics through a 'defamiliar body'.

Law relating to mental disorder and to the mentally disordered has rarely been the subject of such extensive and heated debate.

First published in 1988, Quality of Life for Handicapped People examines developments and innovations in research and practice concerning the quality of life for those with disabilities.

What does it mean to engage in Deaf Studies and who gets to define the field?

This is the first book of its kind to feature interdisciplinary art history and disability studies scholarship.

The critical tradition in accounting historiography has come to occupy a prominent place in the discipline's academic scholarship.

The most basic of human rights, the right to life, is the focus of this book.