Disability: social aspects

Landmines, cluster-bombs, chemical pollutants, and other remnants of war continue to cause death to humans and damage to the environment long after the guns have fallen silent.

This book presents and examines the challenges and compromises required to deliver inclusivity in the existing commercial-built environment and the socio-economic benefits that could result from successfully delivering it.

Re-Presenting Disability addresses issues surrounding disability representation in museums and galleries, a topic which is receiving much academic attention and is becoming an increasingly pressing issue for practitioners working in wide-ranging museums and related cultural organisations.

This book focuses on the lived realities of disabled mothers to examine how they navigate their multiple competing responsibilities and identities.

For almost sixty years, media technologies have promised users the ability to create sonic safe spaces for themselves-from bedside white noise machines to Beats by Dre's "e;Hear What You Want"e; ad campaign, in which Colin Kaepernick's headphones protect him from taunting crowds.

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.

Draws together evidence that poverty causes serious mental illness and gives recommendations as to what can be done about this.

Meet Maria - a woman with Multiple Sclerosis (MS).

This book explores what happens to people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PIMD) when they reach adulthood.

First published in 1990, this book was the first informed study to focus on care within the voluntary sector.

Research has long substantiated the fact that living with a disability creates significant and complex challenges to identity negotiation, the practice of communication, and the development of interpersonal relationships.

What was it like to be disabled in the Middle Ages?

Some children's 'difficulties' do not present in an obvious way, which makes diagnosis problematic, and access to help unforthcoming.

This book explores the gendered experience of disability.

A mainstay of modern life, the global media gives out information about disabilities that is often inaccurate or negative and perpetuates oppressive stigmas and discrimination.

What is the relevance of feminist ideas for understanding women's experiences of disability?

The Disability Bioethics Reader is the first introduction to the field of bioethics presented through the lens of critical disability studies and the philosophy of disability.

What makes a disease real?

There are more opportunities than ever before for young people with disabilities to participate in sport and adapted physical education.

David Pilgrim PhD is Professor of Health & Social Policy in the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology at the University of Liverpool.

In recent years, the transitioning body has become the subject of increasing scholarly, medical, and political interest.

In The Family Fund, first published in 1980, Bradshaw discusses the introduction of The Family Fund- a grant given to families in response of the discovery of the damages caused by the Thalidomide drug.

This book examines how and why mothers with disabled children became activists.

More than a century of research has sought to identify the causes of stut-tering, describe its nature, and enhance its clinical treatment.

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.

In churches today, those on the autism spectrum are often at best overlooked by neurotypical church members or at worst infantilized.

Some fundamental aspects of the lived body only become evident when it breaks down through illness, weakness or pain.

Exploring issues of disability culture, activism, and policy across the African continent, this volume argues for the recognition of African disability studies as an important and emerging interdisciplinary field.

More than a century of research has sought to identify the causes of stut-tering, describe its nature, and enhance its clinical treatment.

Len Barton's intellectual and practical contribution to the sociology of disability and education is highly significant and widely known.

First published in 1990, this book was the first informed study to focus on care within the voluntary sector.

This is the first book to explore the interplay of disability, gender and violence over the life course from researcher, practitioner and survivor perspectives.

In recent years the concept of 'diversity' has gained a leading place in academic thought, business practice and public policy worldwide.

The Psychology of Blindness and Visual Culture: Towards a New Ecological Model of Visual Impairment advances the debate regarding the inclusion and wellbeing of people with visual impairment (PVI) through looking at the psychological nature of visual culture and its effects on the lived experience.

Drawing upon vivid and harrowing life history narratives of people labelled intellectually disabled, this book examines the ways in which disabled subjects are constituted, regulated, governed, and violated through an account of abjection.

Disability is a complex multidimensional social construct where the type of disability and the level of support of individuals needs to be considered within leisure provision.

"e;This was several times with that damn cribbage board.

The Politics of Age and Disability in Contemporary Spanish Film examines the onscreen construction of adolescent, elderly, and disabled subjects in Spanish cinema from 1992 to the present.

Parties and celebrations can be highly challenging for children and teens on the autism spectrum and they can often feel reluctant to participate.

What are the realities of 'community care' - the unpaid care given by hundreds of thousands of women, often in their own homes - for children and adults who are handicapped or chronically sick, or for frail elderly people?

First published in 1999, this volume examines the inclusion of disabled children as a category of children in need under the Children Act 1989 and as eligible for assessments of need under the NHS and Community Care Act 1990 has drawn renewed attention to the plight of these children and their families.

Many people think that profound disability presents us with a real problem, often because it seems difficult to connect with someone who does not seem to think or act like us.

The adoption of the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (CPRD) by the United Nations in 2006 is the first comprehensive and binding treaty on the rights of people with disabilities.

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.

How can an interdisciplinary investigation into the lives of Black mothers raising autistic children in the UK encourage us to scrutinise systemic barriers and advocate for change?

Drawing on inspirational stories of neurodivergent entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Neurodiversity & Gender provides insights into their respective journeys, challenges, and triumphs, alongside discussions with their allies and members of their ecosystem.

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

The Routledge History of Disability explores the shifting attitudes towards and representations of disabled people from the age of antiquity to the twenty-first century.

Editors Lewiecki-Wilson and Cellio have put together the first book to focus on the intersecting spaces, both cultural and personal, of disability and mothering.