Disability: social aspects

The assessment and treatment of mental health concerns for Deaf individuals has been largely ignored and/or misunderstood by many mental health professionals.

Roughly 54 million people with disabilities live in the U.

The Politics of Autism investigates the truths and fictions of public understanding about autism, questioning apparent realities too sensitive or impolitic to challenge.

The Politics of Autism investigates the truths and fictions of public understanding about autism, questioning apparent realities too sensitive or impolitic to challenge.

Clinicians outside of rehabilitation psychology do not receive training on how to work with clients with disabilities.

Clinicians outside of rehabilitation psychology do not receive training on how to work with clients with disabilities.

The Oxford Handbook of Disability Studies represents a comprehensive state of current research for the field of Disability Studies and Music.

Teaching Music to Students with Autism is a comprehensive resource for everyone who works with students with autism within the music classroom.

Millions of people and their families are affected by mental illness; it causes untold pain and severely impairs their ability to function in the world.

The use of sign language has a long history.

Traditional approaches to vocational rehabilitation, such as skills training classes, job clubs, and sheltered employment, have not been successful in helping people with severe mental illness gain competitive employment.

Winner 2024 Outstanding Recent Contribution in Social Psychology Award, Social Psychology Section, American Sociological Association Winner 2024 Melvin Pollner Prize, Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis Section, American Sociological Association As autism has grown in prevalence, so too have our attempts to make sense of it.

Beyond Bias offers the first scholarly study of contemporary right-wing documentary film and video.

Beyond Bias offers the first scholarly study of contemporary right-wing documentary film and video.

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

When people who interact do not share the same abilities, orientations, or beliefs, the results are often disastrous, leaving everyone involved feeling misunderstood, underappreciated, and resentful.

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.

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.

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

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

Everyone is disabled in some respect, at least in the sense that others can do things that we cannot.

Everyone is disabled in some respect, at least in the sense that others can do things that we cannot.

The senses are used within New Testament texts as instruments of knowledge and power and thus constitute important mediators of cultural knowledge and experience.

Although disability imagery is ubiquitous in the Hebrew Bible, characters with disabilities are not.

Although disability imagery is ubiquitous in the Hebrew Bible, characters with disabilities are not.

The primary aim of this book is to explore the contradiction between widely shared beliefs in the USA about racial inclusiveness and equal opportunity for all and the fact that most churches are racially homogeneous and do not include people with disabilities.

The First World War mangled faces, blew away limbs, and ruined nerves.

The First World War mangled faces, blew away limbs, and ruined nerves.

The primary aim of this book is to explore the contradiction between widely shared beliefs in the USA about racial inclusiveness and equal opportunity for all and the fact that most churches are racially homogeneous and do not include people with disabilities.

People with mental illness commonly describe the stigma and discrimination they face as being worse than their main condition.

Elizabeth Barnes argues compellingly that disability is primarily a social phenomenon--a way of being a minority, a way of facing social oppression, but not a way of being inherently or intrinsically worse off.

Elizabeth Barnes argues compellingly that disability is primarily a social phenomenon--a way of being a minority, a way of facing social oppression, but not a way of being inherently or intrinsically worse off.

For almost a decade, journalists and pundits have been asking why we don't see successful examples of political satire from conservatives or of opinion talk radio from liberals.

For almost a decade, journalists and pundits have been asking why we don't see successful examples of political satire from conservatives or of opinion talk radio from liberals.

If teachers want to educate deaf learners effectively, they have to apply evidence-informed methods and didactics with the needs of individual deaf students in mind.

If teachers want to educate deaf learners effectively, they have to apply evidence-informed methods and didactics with the needs of individual deaf students in mind.

This book takes a nonpathological approach to disability, viewing it as part of diversity rather than as deficit.

This book takes a nonpathological approach to disability, viewing it as part of diversity rather than as deficit.

Guided by developmental cultural psychology, this volume focuses on understandings and responses to disability and stigmatization from the perspectives of educators practicing in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and the United States.

Guided by developmental cultural psychology, this volume focuses on understandings and responses to disability and stigmatization from the perspectives of educators practicing in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and the United States.

A fully updated paperback edition that includes coverage of the key developments of the past two years, including the political controversies that swirled around Facebook with increasing intensity in the Trump era.

A fully updated paperback edition that includes coverage of the key developments of the past two years, including the political controversies that swirled around Facebook with increasing intensity in the Trump era.

Disability as Diversity: Developing Cultural Competence reveals why disability is a cultural experience, rather than merely a medical status.

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

Disability as Diversity: Developing Cultural Competence reveals why disability is a cultural experience, rather than merely a medical status.

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

Disability history exists outside of the institutions, healers, and treatments it often brings to mind.

In a tradition extending from the medieval era to the early twentieth century, visually disabled Japanese women known as goze toured the countryside as professional singers.

Supporting Families of Children with Developmental Disabilities: Evidence-based and Emerging Practices provides a comprehensive review of the empirical evidence on interventions for families of individuals - ranging from post-preschool age to adulthood - with developmental disabilities.

Supporting Families of Children with Developmental Disabilities: Evidence-based and Emerging Practices provides a comprehensive review of the empirical evidence on interventions for families of individuals - ranging from post-preschool age to adulthood - with developmental disabilities.