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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.
In austerity Britain, disabled people have been recast as worthless
scroungers. From social care to the benefits system, politicians
and the media alike have made the case that Britain's 12 million
disabled people are nothing but a drain on the public purse. In
Crippled, journalist and campaigner Frances Ryan exposes the
disturbing reality, telling the stories of those most affected by
this devastating regime. It is at once both a damning indictment of
a safety net so compromised it strangles many of those it catches
and a passionate demand for an end to austerity, which hits hardest
those most in need.
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. -- .
This book is a result of an output of a Commission of the World
Leisure and Recreation Association (WLRA) to examine the role of
leisure and education for leisure activities among people with
special needs living in the community, and requiring social or
health services outside hospital. It provides a conceptual and
practical framework for understanding the role of leisure education
for community development with a special emphasis on special
populations. It will also serve the reader as a foundation for
developing models and programs for leisure education within
community settings.
Takes the recent wave of German autobiographical writing on illness
and disability seriously as literature, demonstrating the value of
a literary disability studies approach. In the German-speaking
world there has been a new wave - intensifying since 2007 - of
autobiographically inspired writing on illness and disability,
death and dying. Nina Schmidt's book takes this writing seriously
as literature,examining how the authors of such personal narratives
come to write of their experiences between the poles of cliche and
exceptionality. Identifying shortcomings in the approaches taken
thus far to such texts, she makes suggestions as to how to better
read their narratives from the stance of literary scholarship, then
demonstrates the value of a literary disability studies approach to
such writing with close readings of Charlotte Roche's
Schossgebete(2011), Kathrin Schmidt's Du stirbst nicht (2009),
Verena Stefan's Fremdschlafer (2007), and - in the final,
comparative chapter - Christoph Schlingensief's So schoen wie hier
kanns im Himmel gar nicht sein! Tagebuch einer Krebserkrankung
(2009) and Wolfgang Herrndorf's blog-cum-book Arbeit und Struktur
(2010-13). Schmidt shows that authors dealing with illness and
disability do so with an awareness of their precarious subject
position in the public eye, a position they negotiate creatively.
Writing the liminal experience of serious illness along the borders
of genre, moving between fictional and autobiographical modes, they
carve out spaces from which they speak up and share their personal
stories in the realm of literature, to political ends. Nina Schmidt
is a postdoctoral researcher in the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate
School of Literary Studies at the Freie Universitat Berlin.
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Computers Helping People with Special Needs
- 15th International Conference, ICCHP 2016, Linz, Austria, July 13-15, 2016, Proceedings, Part II
(Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)
Klaus Miesenberger, Christian Buhler, Petr Penaz
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The two volume set LNCS 9758 and 9759, constitutes the refereed
proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computers
Helping People with Special Needs, ICCHP 2015, held in Linz,
Austria, in July 2016. The 115 revised full papers and 48 short
papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 239
submissions. The papers included in the second volume are organized
in the following topics: environmental sensing technologies for
visual impairments; tactile graphics and models for blind people
and recognition of shapes by touch; tactile maps and map data for
orientation and mobility; mobility support for blind and partially
sighted people; the use of mobile devices by individuals with
special needs as an assistive tool; mobility support for people
with motor and cognitive disabilities; towards e-inclusion for
people with intellectual disabilities; At and inclusion of people
with autism or dyslexia; AT and inclusion of deaf and hard of
hearing people; accessible computer input; AT and rehabilitation
for people with motor and mobility disabilities; HCI, AT and ICT
for blind and partially sighted people.
Setting a case study of deaf people's leisure practices in
north-west England within a wider examination of communal deaf
leisure across Britain, this book offers new insights into a
misunderstood and misrepresented community. Available for the first
time in paperback, the book provides a detailed analysis of deaf
people's leisure during the second half of the twentieth century,
which questions perceptions of deafness as a disability,
investigates the importance of shared leisure in community
formation more generally and examines the ways in which changing
patterns of socialisation are affecting British society. Although
focusing on the British deaf community, the concepts and principles
explored in this book can be applied across a wide range of social,
cultural and ethnic groups. This book draws upon a wide range of
subject areas and will consequently be of interest to students and
academics working in the fields of disability, history, community
and cultural minority studies, sport, leisure and regional studies.
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Many people are shocked upon discovering that tens of thousands of
innocent persons in the United States were involuntarily
sterilized, forced into institutions, and otherwise maltreated
within the course of the eugenic movement (1900-30). Such social
control efforts are easier to understand when we consider the
variety of dehumanizing and fear-inducing rhetoric propagandists
invoke to frame their potential victims. This book, now available
in paperback, details the major rhetorical themes employed within
the context of eugenic propaganda, drawing largely on original
sources of the period. Early in the twentieth century the term
'moron' was developed to describe the primary targets of eugenic
control. This book demonstrates how the image of moronity in the
United States was shaped by eugenicists. This book will be of
interest not only to disability and eugenics scholars and
historians, but to anyone who wants to explore the means by which
pejorative metaphors are used to support social control efforts
against vulnerable community groups. -- .
Disability Rhetoric is the first book to view rhetorical theory and
history through the lens of disability studies. Traditionally, the
body has been seen as, at best, a rhetorical distraction; at worst,
those whose bodies do not conform to a narrow range of norms are
disqualified from speaking. Yet, Dolmage argues that communication
has always been obsessed with the meaning of the body and that
bodily difference is always highly rhetorical. Following from this
rewriting of rhetorical history, he outlines the development of a
new theory, affirming the ideas that all communication is embodied,
that the body plays a central role in all expression, and that
greater attention to a range of bodies is therefore essential to a
better understanding of rhetorical histories, theories, and
possibilities.
In After War Zoe H. Wool explores how the American soldiers most
severely injured in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars struggle to build
some kind of ordinary life while recovering at Walter Reed Army
Medical Center from grievous injuries like lost limbs and traumatic
brain injury. Between 2007 and 2008, Wool spent time with many of
these mostly male soldiers and their families and loved ones in an
effort to understand what it's like to be blown up and then pulled
toward an ideal and ordinary civilian life in a place where the
possibilities of such a life are called into question.
Contextualizing these soldiers within a broader political and moral
framework, Wool considers the soldier body as a historically,
politically, and morally laden national icon of normative
masculinity. She shows how injury, disability, and the reality of
soldiers' experiences and lives unsettle this icon and disrupt the
all-too-common narrative of the heroic wounded veteran as the
embodiment of patriotic self-sacrifice. For these soldiers, the
uncanny ordinariness of seemingly extraordinary everyday
circumstances and practices at Walter Reed create a reality that
will never be normal.
Law and Neurodiversity offers invaluable guidance on how autism
research can inform juvenile justice policies in Canada and the
United States. In Canada, the diversion of youth away from formal
processing has fostered community-based strategies for serving
those with autism. US policies rely more heavily on formal
responses, often employing juvenile custody facilities. Building on
a rigorous exploration of how assessment, rehabilitation, and
community re-entry differ between the two countries, Law and
Neurodiversity offers a much-needed comparative analysis of autism
and juvenile justice policies on both sides of the forty-ninth
parallel.
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. -- .
An electronic version of this book is also available under a
Creative Commons (CC-BY-NC-ND) license, thanks to the support of
the Wellcome Trust. Coalmining was a notoriously dangerous industry
and many of its workers experienced injury and disease. However,
the experiences of the many disabled people within Britain's most
dangerous industry have gone largely unrecognised by historians.
This book looks at British coal through the lens of disability,
using an interdisciplinary approach to examine the lives of
disabled miners and their families. A diverse range of sources are
used to examine the economic, social, political and cultural impact
of disability in the coal industry, looking beyond formal coal
company and union records to include autobiographies, novels and
existing oral testimony. It argues that, far from being excluded
entirely from British industry, disability and disabled people were
central to its development. The book will appeal to students and
academics interested in disability history, disability studies,
social and cultural history and representations of disability in
literature. -- .
Within the domains of criminal justice and mental health care,
critical debate concerning 'care' versus 'control' and 'therapy'
versus 'security' is now commonplace. Indeed, the 'hybridisation'
of these areas is now a familiar theme. This unique and topical
text provides an array of expert analyses from key contributors in
the field that explore the interface between criminal justice and
mental health. Using concise yet robust definitions of key terms
and concepts, it consolidates scholarly analysis of theory, policy
and practice. Readers are provided with practical debates, in
addition to the theoretical and ideological concerns surrounding
the risk assessment, treatment, control and risk management in a
cross-disciplinary context. Included in this book is recommended
further reading and an index of legislation, making it an ideal
resource for students at undergraduate and postgraduate level,
together with researchers and practitioners in the field.
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