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This book uses previously unknown archive materials to explore the
meaning of the term 'incapable of work' over a hundred years
(1911-present). Nowadays, people claiming disability benefits must
undergo medical tests to assess whether or not they are capable of
work. Media reports and high profile campaigns highlight the
problems with this system and question whether the process is fair.
These debates are not new and, in this book, Jackie Gulland looks
at similar questions about how to assess people's capacity for work
from the beginning of the welfare state in the early 20th century.
Amongst many subject areas, she explores women's roles in the
domestic sphere and how these were used to consider their capacity
for work in the labour market. The book concludes that incapacity
benefit decision making is really about work: what work is, what it
is not, who should do it, who should be compensated when work does
not provide a sufficient income and who should be exempted from any
requirement to look for it.
In Black Madness :: Mad Blackness Theri Alyce Pickens rethinks the
relationship between Blackness and disability, unsettling the
common theorization that they are mutually constitutive. Pickens
shows how Black speculative and science fiction authors such as
Octavia Butler, Nalo Hopkinson, and Tananarive Due craft new worlds
that reimagine the intersection of Blackness and madness. These
creative writer-theorists formulate new parameters for thinking
through Blackness and madness. Pickens considers Butler's Fledgling
as an archive of Black madness that demonstrates how race and
ability shape subjectivity while constructing the building blocks
for antiracist and anti-ableist futures. She examines how
Hopkinson's Midnight Robber theorizes mad Blackness and how Due's
African Immortals series contests dominant definitions of the
human. The theorizations of race and disability that emerge from
these works, Pickens demonstrates, challenge the paradigms of
subjectivity that white supremacy and ableism enforce, thereby
pointing to the potential for new forms of radical politics.
Out of print for nearly a century, "The World I Live In" is Helen
Keller's most personal and intellectually adventurous work--one
that transforms our appreciation of her extraordinary achievements.
Here this preternaturally gifted deaf and blind young woman closely
describes her sensations and the workings of her imagination, while
making the pro-vocative argument that the whole spectrum of the
senses lies open to her through the medium of language. Standing in
the line of the works of Emerson and Thoreau, "The World I Live In"
is a profoundly suggestive exercise in self-invention, and a true,
rediscovered classic of American literature.
This new edition of "The World I Live In" also includes Helen
Keller's early essay "Optimism," as well as her first published
work, "My Story," written when she was twelve.
Until the recent recognition of Deaf culture and the legitimacy of
signed languages, majority societies around the world have
classified Deaf people as "disabled," a term that separates all
persons so designated from the mainstream in a disparaging way.
Damned for Their Difference offers a well-founded explanation of
how this discrimination came to be through a discursive exploration
of the cultural, social, and historical contexts of these attitudes
and behavior toward deaf people, especially in Great Britain.
Authors Jan Branson and Don Miller examine the orientation toward
and treatment of deaf people as it developed from the 17th century
through the 20th century. Their wide-ranging study explores the
varied constructions of the definition of "disabled," a term whose
meaning hinges upon constant negotiation between parties, ensuring
that no finite meaning is ever established. Damned for Their
Difference provides a sociological understanding of disabling
practices in a way that has never been seen before.
In Black Madness :: Mad Blackness Theri Alyce Pickens rethinks the
relationship between Blackness and disability, unsettling the
common theorization that they are mutually constitutive. Pickens
shows how Black speculative and science fiction authors such as
Octavia Butler, Nalo Hopkinson, and Tananarive Due craft new worlds
that reimagine the intersection of Blackness and madness. These
creative writer-theorists formulate new parameters for thinking
through Blackness and madness. Pickens considers Butler's Fledgling
as an archive of Black madness that demonstrates how race and
ability shape subjectivity while constructing the building blocks
for antiracist and anti-ableist futures. She examines how
Hopkinson's Midnight Robber theorizes mad Blackness and how Due's
African Immortals series contests dominant definitions of the
human. The theorizations of race and disability that emerge from
these works, Pickens demonstrates, challenge the paradigms of
subjectivity that white supremacy and ableism enforce, thereby
pointing to the potential for new forms of radical politics.
Surface Tensions is an expansive, yet intimate study of how people
remake themselves after catastrophic bodily change-the loss of
limbs, the loss of function, the loss or replacement of organs.
Against a sweeping cultural backdrop of art, popular culture, and
the history of science and medicine, Manderson uses narrative
epistemology based on in-depth interviews with over 300 individuals
to show how they re-establish the coherence of their bodies,
identities, and biographies. In addition to offering important new
insights into the care, rehabilitation, and rehabituation of
post-trauma patients, Manderson's work challenges conventional
ideas about the nature of embodiment and is an important
contribution to medical anthropology, disability studies, and
cultural studies.
Autism is a rising epidemic that affects 1 in 68 children. When
Jennifer Noonan's son was diagnosed in 2009, she refused to accept
the conventional wisdom that autism was largely permanent, instead
launching a relentless investigation into the very latest dietary,
immunological, and metabolic research available. "I certainly had
no reason to believe at that time that autism was treatable," she
writes, "but somehow I decided, in my classically pigheaded way,
that it would be." This spirited audacity gave her not only
courage,and ultimately success,in the face of such a devastating
diagnosis, but also a self-aware and darkly funny perspective on
her own faults and struggles over the next six years.With equal
parts defiance, tenacity, and wry humour, No Map to This Country
details one family's journey through the modern autism epidemic,
and the lengths to which a mother will go to heal her family.
Neither a medical manual nor a heartwarming tale of growth,
Noonan's ground-breaking yet profoundly relatable memoir seamlessly
combines cutting-edge research with a gripping and unapologetic
account of her family's fight for recovery.
Amputation need not always signify castration; indeed, in Jack
London's fiction, losing a limb becomes part of a process through
which queerly gendered men become properly masculinized. In her
astute book, Vulnerable Constitutions, Cynthia Barounis explores
the way American writers have fashioned alternative-even
resistant-epistemologies of queerness, disability, and masculinity.
She seeks to understand the way perverse sexuality, physical
damage, and bodily contamination have stimulated-rather than
created a crisis for-masculine characters in twentieth- and early
twenty-first-century literature. Barounis introduces the concept of
"anti-prophylactic citizenship"-a mode of political belonging
characterized by vulnerability, receptivity, and risk-to examine
counternarratives of American masculinity. Investigating the work
of authors including London, William Faulkner, James Baldwin, and
Eli Clare, she presents an evolving narrative of medicalized
sexuality and anti-prophylactic masculinity. Her literary readings
interweave queer theory, disability studies, and the history of
medicine to demonstrate how evolving scientific conversations
around deviant genders and sexualities gave rise to a new model of
national belonging-ultimately rewriting the story of American
masculinity as a story of queer-crip rebellion.
This volume aims to critically engage with constructs and
experiences of disabled sexualities through Africa, Asia, Latin
America and the Caribbean. In doing so, it is hoped that the
questions raised, relfections, analyses and arguments will provide
readers with a catalyst through which to (re)think disabled
sexualities from the perspective of the Global South. What makes
this edited volume unique is besides chapters from emerging
academics and disability activists who either live or work in the
Global South, it also includes personal contributions from disabled
people across the Global South. This volume takes a broad
perspective on disabled sexualities addressing such areas as
gender, race, culture, colonialism, body image, sexual pleasure,
sexuality education, sexual access, sexual and reproductive health
services, queer sexualities, and sexual rights and justice. The
volume will be of interest to international and national
organisations for people with disabilities, gender and sexuality
researchers, health professionals, social workers, academics and
students at all higher education and training institutions
interested in disability, gender queer and sexuality studies.
In this collection of primary sources, Eugene Smelyansky highlights
instances of persecution and violence, as well as those relatively
rare but significant episodes of toleration, that impacted a broad
spectrum of people who existed at the margins of medieval society:
heretics, Jews and Muslims, the poor, the displaced and disabled,
women, and those deemed sexually deviant. The volume also presents
a more geographically diverse Middle Ages by including sources from
Central and Eastern Europe as well as the Mediterranean. Each
document is preceded by a brief introduction and followed by
questions for discussion, making The Intolerant Middle Ages an
excellent entrance into the lives and struggles of medieval
minorities.
Literatures of Madness: Disability Studies and Mental Health brings
together scholars working in disability studies, mad studies,
feminist theory, Indigenous studies, postcolonial theory, Jewish
literature, queer studies, American studies, trauma studies, and
comics to create an intersectional community of scholarship in
literary disability studies of mental health. The collection
contains essays on canonical authors and lesser known and sometimes
forgotten writers, including Sylvia Plath, Louisa May Alcott,
Hannah Weiner, Mary Jane Ward, Michelle Cliff, Lee Maracle, Joanne
Greenberg, Ann Bannon, Jerry Pinto, Persimmon Blackbridge, and
others. The volume addresses the under-representation of madness
and psychiatric disability in the field of disability studies,
which traditionally focuses on physical disability, and explores
the controversies and the common ground among disability studies,
anti-psychiatric discourses, mad studies, graphic medicine, and
health/medical humanities.
Global awareness of autism has skyrocketed since the 1980s, and
popular culture has caught on, with film and television producers
developing ever more material featuring autistic characters. Autism
in Film and Television brings together more than a dozen essays on
depictions of autism, exploring how autistic characters are
signified in media and how the reception of these characters
informs societal understandings of autism. Editors Murray Pomerance
and R. Barton Palmer have assembled a pioneering examination of
autism's portrayal in film and television. Contributors consider
the various means by which autism has been expressed in films such
as Phantom Thread, Mercury Rising, and Life Animated and in
television and streaming programs including Atypical, Stranger
Things, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Community. Across
media, the figure of the brilliant, accomplished, and "quirky"
autist has proven especially appealing. Film and television have
thus staked out a progressive position on neurodiversity by
insisting on screen time for autism but have done so while
frequently ignoring the true diversity of autistic experience. As a
result, this volume is a welcome celebration of nonjudgmental
approaches to disability, albeit one that is still freighted with
stereotypes and elisions.
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Computers Helping People with Special Needs
- 16th International Conference, ICCHP 2018, Linz, Austria, July 11-13, 2018, Proceedings, Part II
(Paperback, 1st ed. 2018)
Klaus Miesenberger, Georgios Kouroupetroglou
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The two-volume set LNCS 10896 and 10897 constitutes the refereed
proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computers
Helping People with Special Needs, ICCHP 2018, held in Linz,
Austria, in July2018. The 101 revised full papers and 78 short
papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 356
submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical
sections: Web accessibility in the connected world; accessibility
and usability of mobile platforms for people with disabilities and
elderly persons: design, development and engineering; accessible
system/information/document design; accessible e-learning -
e-learning for accessibility/AT; personalized access to TV, film,
theatre, and music; digital games accessibility; accessibility and
usability of self-service terminals, technologies and systems;
universal learning design; motor and mobility disabilities: AT,
HCI, care; empowerment of people with cognitive disabilities using
digital technologies; augmented and alternative communication
(AAC), supported speech; Art Karshmer lectures in access to
mathematics, science and engineering; environmental sensing
technologies for visual impairment; 3D printing in the domain of
assistive technologies (AT) and do it yourselves (DIY) AT; tactile
graphics and models for blind people and recognition of shapes by
touch; access to artworks and its mediation by and for visually
impaired people; digital navigation for people with visual
impairments; low vision and blindness: human computer interaction;
future perspectives for ageing well: AAL tools, products, services;
mobile healthcare and m-health apps for people with disabilities;
and service and information provision.
This book provides a diverse range of basic information and
practical advice for adults with dyspraxia. Colley is able to
describe in detail the impact that coordination and motor learning
difficulties can have on many everyday activities, including
cooking, shopping, sewing, gardening and swallowing medicines. This
book provides a very readable, comprehensive and useful resource
for adults with dyspraxia and their carers. It might also be useful
for clinicians who are new to the field and have limited practical
experience.' - British Journal of Occupational Therapy 'This
concise and interestingly written handbook is aimed at helping
dyspraxic adults to understand their condition and its impact on
work, study, social relationships and leisure activities. It
contains practical tips on everyday living, including voice
control, body language, cooking, study skills, driving and
self-care. Especially fascinating are the accounts by four
dyspraxic adults of their own experiences. I would recommend the
book to teachers and parents, student therapists and clinicians
(especially those working in a multidisciplinary setting) who need
an insight into developmental dyspraxia as experienced by
adolescent and adult clients and an overview of the help
available.' - Speech and Language Therapy in Practice For people
with Developmental Dyspraxia, everyday life can pose a multitude of
problems. Tasks the majority of people would find simple can often
be taxing and fraught with difficulty. Living with Dyspraxia was
written to help all adults with Dyspraxia tackle the everyday
situations that many people take for granted. It is full of
practical advice on everything from getting a diagnosis to learning
how to manage household chores. Important topics are addressed,
such as self-esteem, whether to disclose your condition within the
workplace, how to communicate more effectively and also how
Dyspraxia often interacts with other conditions, such as Dyslexia,
ADHD and Asperger's Syndrome. This practical resource will be of
use to adults with Dyspraxia, the professionals and families
members who come into contact with them as well as those who simply
wish to learn more about Dyspraxia.
Disabled children's lives have often been discussed through medical
concepts of disability rather than concepts of childhood. Western
understandings of childhood have defined disabled children against
child development 'norms' and have provided the rationale for
segregated or 'special' welfare and education provision. In
contrast, disabled children's childhood studies begins with the
view that studies of children's impairment are not studies of their
childhoods. Disabled children's childhood studies demands ethical
research practices that position disabled children and young people
at the centre of the inquiry outside of the shadow of perceived
'norms'. The Palgrave Handbook of Disabled Children's Childhood
Studies will be of interest to students and scholars across a range
of disciplines, as well as practitioners in health, education,
social work and youth work.
* What is the relevance of feminist ideas for understanding women's
experiences of disability? * How can the social model of disability
be developed theoretically? * What are the key differences between
Disability Studies and medical sociology? In answer to these
questions, this book explores and develops ideas about disability,
engaging with important debates in disability studies about what
disability is and how to theorize it. It also examines the
interface between disability studies, women's studies and medical
sociology, and offers an accessible review of contemporary debates
and theoretical approaches. The title Female Forms reflects two
things about the book: first, its use of disabled women's
experiences, as told by themselves, to bring a number of themes to
life, and second, the author's belief in the importance of feminist
ideas and debates for disability studies. The social model of
disability is the book's bedrock, but the author both challenges
and contributes to social modelist thought. She advances a
materialist feminist perspective on disability, producing a book
which is of multi-disciplinary relevance. Female Forms will be
useful to the growing number of students on Disability Studies
courses, as well as those interested in women's studies, medical
sociology and social policy. It will also appeal to those studying
or working in the health and social care professions such as
nursing, social work, occupational therapy and physiotherapy.
AspergerWorld is a fascinating, part-autobiographical book written
by Joely Williams, a young woman with Asperger's syndrome. It aims
to inspire and empower those on the autistic spectrum, and teach
them the joy of self-acceptance. AspergerWorld shares Joely's
journey: from the challenges she faced as a child, to successfully
completing her education, to her current role as an autism
activist. It also contains invaluable advice for both parents and
professionals on how to best support those with autism. Most
importantly, it aims to educate, igniting what Joely calls 'a
positive rainbow of change' into the heart of the autistic
community.
Challenging existing approaches to autism that limit, and sometimes
damage, the individuals who attract and receive the label, this
book questions the lazy prejudices and assumptions that can
surround autism as a diagnosis in the 21st Century. Arguing that
autism can only be understood through examining 'it' as a socially
or culturally produced phenomenon, the authors offer a critique of
the medical model that has produced a perpetually marginalising
approach to autism, and explain the contradictions and difficulties
inherent in existing attitudes. They examine and dispute the
scientific validity of diagnosis and 'treatment', asking whether
autism actually exists at the biological level, and question the
value of diagnosis in the lives of those labelled with autism. The
book recognises that there are no easy answers but encourages
engagement with these essential questions, and looks towards
service provision and practice that moves beyond a reliance on
all-encompassing labels. This unique contribution to the growing
field of critical autism studies brings together authors from
clinical psychiatry, clinical and community psychology, social
sciences, disability studies, education and cultural studies, as
well as those with personal experiences of autism. It is essential
and challenging reading for anyone with a personal, professional or
academic interest in 'autism'.
The Story of My Life (1903) is the autobiography of Helen Keller.
Written while she was an undergraduate student at Radcliffe College
in Cambridge, Massachusetts, The Story of My Life was a joint
effort between Keller, her teacher Anne Sullivan, and Anne's
husband John Macy. "Gradually I got used to the silence and
darkness that surrounded me and forgot that it had ever been
different, until she came-my teacher-who was to set my spirit free.
But during the first nineteen months of my life I had caught
glimpses of broad, green fields, a luminous sky, trees and flowers
which the darkness that followed could not wholly blot out. If we
have once seen, 'the day is ours, and what the day has shown.'"
After losing her hearing and sight as an infant, Helen Keller
received a life-changing education from her dedicated teacher Anne
Sullivan, herself vision impaired. As she learned to communicate
through signs, she found an innate determination to surpass the
expectations of those around her, eventually becoming the first
deafblind person to obtain her Bachelor of Arts. Her autobiography
is a rich retelling of the first twenty-one years of Keller's life,
a period marked by tragedy and miracle alike, shaping her into one
of the twentieth century's leading civil rights activists and
public speakers. With a beautifully designed cover and
professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Helen Keller's
The Story of My Life is a classic of American literature reimagined
for modern readers.
From workplace accidents to polio epidemics and new waves of
immigration to the returning veterans of World War II, the first
half of the twentieth century brought the issue of disability-what
it was, what it meant, and how to address it-into national focus.
Out of the Horrors of War: Disability Politics in World War II
America explores the history of disability activism, concentrating
on the American Federation of the Physically Handicapped (AFPH), a
national, cross-disability organization founded during World War II
to address federal disability policy. Unlike earlier disability
groups, which had been organized around specific disabilities or
shared military experience, AFPH brought thousands of disabled
citizens and veterans into the national political arena, demanding
equal access to economic security and full citizenship. At its
core, the AFPH legislative campaign pushed the federal government
to move disabled citizens from the margins to the center of the
welfare state. Through extensive archival research, Audra Jennings
examines the history of AFPH and its enduring legacy in the
disability rights movement. Counter to most narratives that place
the inception of disability activism in the 1970s, Jennings argues
that the disability rights movement is firmly rooted in the
politics of World War II. In the years immediately following the
war, leaders in AFPH worked with organized labor movements to
advocate for an ambitious political agenda, including employer
education campaigns, a federal pension program, improved access to
healthcare and education, and an affirmative action program for
disabled workers. Out of the Horrors of War extends the arc of the
disability rights movement into the 1940s and traces how its terms
of inclusion influenced the movement for decades after, leading up
to the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
This book brings together research relating to the economics of
disability in Ireland. It addresses a range of issues of relevance
to the economic circumstances of people with disabilities,
considering topics such as social inclusion, poverty, the labour
market, living standards and public policy. It also considers
issues of specific relevance to children, working-age adults and
older people with disabilities, providing important evidence that
can help improve disability policies, services and supports. Each
chapter presents a clear and relatively non-technical treatment of
the specific topic under consideration, making it accessible to a
greater number of interested readers. In doing so, it provides an
important addition to our knowledge and understanding of the
economics of disability and will serve as a useful and up-to-date
resource for a range of interested parties both in Ireland and
internationally. -- .
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