Phallacies: Historical Intersections of Disability and Masculinity is a collection of essays that focuses on disabled men who negotiate their masculinity as well as their disability.
Phallacies: Historical Intersections of Disability and Masculinity is a collection of essays that focuses on disabled men who negotiate their masculinity as well as their disability.
Deaf around the World is a compendium of work by scholars and activists on the creation, context, and form of sign languages, and on the social issues and civil rights of Deaf communities.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Social Competence of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children addresses the development, assessment, and promotion of social competence in children who are deaf or hard-of-hearing (DHH).
Introduction to American Deaf Culture is the only comprehensive textbook that provides a broad, yet in-depth, exploration of how Deaf people are best understood from a cultural perspective, with coverage of topics such as how culture is defined, how the concept of culture can be applied to the Deaf experience, and how Deaf culture has evolved over the years.
An exploration of early modern accounts of sickness and disability-and what they tell us about our own approach to bodily differenceIn our age of biomedicine, society often treats sickness and disability as problems in need of solution.
A unique resource for rehabilitation engineers, design and building professionals, rehabilitation counselors, gerontologists, psychologists, and other health and mental health professionals, this volume covers the significance and impact of universal design as a change agent for social and health movements.
Integrating current research with the experiences of people with cognitive disabilities, this volume examines how assistive and cognitive support technologies are being harnessed to provide assistance for thinking, remembering, and learning.
This text provides, from a rehabilitation perspective, comprehensive coverage of the dominant theories and techniques related to the occupational development, vocational behavior, and the organizational factors that impact the career development and employment of individuals with disabilities.
How does a patient with sensory disability - such as a hearing or vision impairment, or both - get effective communication from a health care provider?
Violence is an inescapable through-line across the experiences of institutional residents regardless of facility type, historical period, regional location, government or staff in power, or type of population.
This edited book makes an epistemic claim that disability studies' approaches to curriculum are doing more than merely critiquing how privileged knowledge excludes disability from curriculum theory and praxis.
This book centres and explores postcolonial theory, which looks at issues of power, economics, politics, religion and culture and how these elements work in relation to colonial supremacy.
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.
**Winner of the Japanese Toilet Association Incentive Award 2025 in the Technology and R&D Category**It has never been more important for inclusive design research to inform society.
More than being counter to what we must surely endeavour to consider the status quo of honesty, not to mention the pursuit of truth that should still be fundamental in academia and education more broadly, dishonesty involves deceit and thus victimisation, which is to say it tends to be used either against someone or to give someone an unfair advantage.
Due to stigma, self-esteem, or accessibility issues, disabled adults can often find it difficult to navigate the world by themselves, let alone feel comfortable enough in their disabled identity to practice proper self-care.
Due to stigma, self-esteem, or accessibility issues, disabled adults can often find it difficult to navigate the world by themselves, let alone feel comfortable enough in their disabled identity to practice proper self-care.
Youth, Disability, and Resistance offers a powerful account of how young disabled people across Europe are reshaping disability activism and reimagining the future of social change.
Youth, Disability, and Resistance offers a powerful account of how young disabled people across Europe are reshaping disability activism and reimagining the future of social change.
Neurodivergent individuals frequently face distinct challenges within creative fields such as music, literature, performance, media, and the visual arts.
Neurodivergent individuals frequently face distinct challenges within creative fields such as music, literature, performance, media, and the visual arts.
Accompagner et soigner des personnes gravement handicapees mentales soumet les professionnels a des charges d'affects dont ils ne peuvent pas toujours ni en deceler les origines ni en decrire les enjeux qui traversent leurs pratiques.
