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Research Anthology on Physical and Intellectual Disabilities in an Inclusive Society, VOL 4 (Hardcover): Information R... Research Anthology on Physical and Intellectual Disabilities in an Inclusive Society, VOL 4 (Hardcover)
Information R Management Association
R11,477 Discovery Miles 114 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Invention of Miracles - Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell's Quest to End Deafness (Paperback): Katie Booth The Invention of Miracles - Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell's Quest to End Deafness (Paperback)
Katie Booth
R533 R503 Discovery Miles 5 030 Save R30 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Research Anthology on Physical and Intellectual Disabilities in an Inclusive Society, VOL 3 (Hardcover): Information R... Research Anthology on Physical and Intellectual Disabilities in an Inclusive Society, VOL 3 (Hardcover)
Information R Management Association
R11,484 Discovery Miles 114 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Held - A Memoir from Cancer Survivor and Amputee (Hardcover): Melissa Eadie Held - A Memoir from Cancer Survivor and Amputee (Hardcover)
Melissa Eadie; Foreword by Angela Donadio
R830 Discovery Miles 8 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Research Anthology on Physical and Intellectual Disabilities in an Inclusive Society, VOL 2 (Hardcover): Information R... Research Anthology on Physical and Intellectual Disabilities in an Inclusive Society, VOL 2 (Hardcover)
Information R Management Association
R11,469 Discovery Miles 114 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Research Anthology on Physical and Intellectual Disabilities in an Inclusive Society, VOL 1 (Hardcover): Information R... Research Anthology on Physical and Intellectual Disabilities in an Inclusive Society, VOL 1 (Hardcover)
Information R Management Association
R11,473 Discovery Miles 114 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Cane Jitsu Defense (Hardcover): Ted H. Gordon Cane Jitsu Defense (Hardcover)
Ted H. Gordon
R1,087 Discovery Miles 10 870 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Don't Waste Your Pain (Hardcover): Shirley Maynard Don't Waste Your Pain (Hardcover)
Shirley Maynard
R814 Discovery Miles 8 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Disabled and Faithful (Hardcover): Moses Macias Disabled and Faithful (Hardcover)
Moses Macias
R529 R489 Discovery Miles 4 890 Save R40 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Xanax Withdrawal & Aging In Residual Schizophrenia (Hardcover): Larry Podsobinski Xanax Withdrawal & Aging In Residual Schizophrenia (Hardcover)
Larry Podsobinski
R967 Discovery Miles 9 670 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
My Cerebral Palsy Memoir - A Behind the Scenes Look (Hardcover): Joshua David Blow My Cerebral Palsy Memoir - A Behind the Scenes Look (Hardcover)
Joshua David Blow
R534 Discovery Miles 5 340 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
10-33 - An Officer Down Steps Back Up (Hardcover): Laurie White 10-33 - An Officer Down Steps Back Up (Hardcover)
Laurie White
R905 R789 Discovery Miles 7 890 Save R116 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Cultural Inclusion (Hardcover): Floyd Morris Cultural Inclusion (Hardcover)
Floyd Morris
R899 R771 Discovery Miles 7 710 Save R128 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Linda - A Full Happy Life (Paperback): Rudy Schouten Linda - A Full Happy Life (Paperback)
Rudy Schouten
R485 Discovery Miles 4 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Against All Odds - Our Life Journey With Autism (Hardcover): Carol Basile Against All Odds - Our Life Journey With Autism (Hardcover)
Carol Basile
R652 R595 Discovery Miles 5 950 Save R57 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Positive Psychology of Personal Factors - Implications for Understanding Disability (Hardcover): Michael L. Wehmeyer, Dana... The Positive Psychology of Personal Factors - Implications for Understanding Disability (Hardcover)
Michael L. Wehmeyer, Dana S. Dunn; Contributions by Erin E. Andrews, Kathleen R. Bogart, Brandon Boring, …
R2,514 Discovery Miles 25 140 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Historically, interventions designed to impact the lives of disabled people were predicated upon deficits-based models of disability. This began to change with the introduction of World Health Organization (WHO) frameworks, particularly the International Classification of Function (ICF), that emphasized that disability could only be understood in the context of interactions among health, environmental factors, and personal factors and by examining the impact of such factors on a person's activities and participation. The ICF identified personal factors as among the elements of a social-ecological model of disability but did not provide an extensive taxonomy of what constitutes such factors. Understanding Disability examines personal factors that come from the field of positive psychology and, as such, to begin to identify and build strengths-based approaches to promoting the full participation, dignity, and well-being of disabled people.

Great Googa Mooga - Multiple Sclerosis Runs in the Family (Hardcover): Joyce Edwards Lee, Richard Edwards Great Googa Mooga - Multiple Sclerosis Runs in the Family (Hardcover)
Joyce Edwards Lee, Richard Edwards
R583 Discovery Miles 5 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
It's Hard Being You - A Primer on Being Happy Anyway (Hardcover): Sharon Emery It's Hard Being You - A Primer on Being Happy Anyway (Hardcover)
Sharon Emery
R677 R609 Discovery Miles 6 090 Save R68 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Education for Children With Disabilities in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (Hardcover): Margarita Schiemer Education for Children With Disabilities in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (Hardcover)
Margarita Schiemer
R1,457 Discovery Miles 14 570 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Becoming Disabled - Forging a Disability View of the World (Hardcover): Jan Doolittle Wilson Becoming Disabled - Forging a Disability View of the World (Hardcover)
Jan Doolittle Wilson
R4,069 R2,866 Discovery Miles 28 660 Save R1,203 (30%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Using an autoethnographic approach, as well as multiple first-person accounts from disabled writers, artists, and scholars, Jan Doolittle Wilson describes how becoming disabled is to forge a new consciousness and a radically new way of viewing the world. In Becoming Disabled, Wilson examines disability in ways that challenge dominant discourses and systems that shape and reproduce disability stigma and discrimination. It is to create alternative meanings that understand disability as a valuable human variation, that embrace human interdependency, and that recognize the necessity of social supports for individual flourishing and happiness. From her own disability view of the world, Wilson critiques the disabling impact of language, media, medical practices, educational systems, neoliberalism, mothering ideals, and other systemic barriers. And she offers a powerful vision of a society in which all forms of human diversity are included and celebrated and one in which we are better able to care for ourselves and each other.

From Wallflowers to Bulletproof Families - The Power of Disability in Young Adult Narratives (Hardcover): Abbye E. Meyer From Wallflowers to Bulletproof Families - The Power of Disability in Young Adult Narratives (Hardcover)
Abbye E. Meyer
R3,150 Discovery Miles 31 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Uses of disability in literature are often problematic and harmful to disabled people. This is also true, of course, in children's and young adult literature, but interestingly, when disability is paired and confused with adolescence in narratives, interesting, complex arcs often arise. In From Wallflowers to Bulletproof Families: The Power of Disability in Young Adult Narratives, author Abbye E. Meyer examines different ways authors use and portray disability in literature. She demonstrates how narratives about and for young adults differ from the norm. With a distinctive young adult voice based in disability, these narratives allow for readings that conflate and complicate both adolescence and disability. Throughout, Meyer examines common representations of disability and more importantly, the ways that young adult narratives expose these tropes and explicitly challenge harmful messages they might otherwise reinforce. She illustrates how two-dimensional characters allow literary metaphors to work, while forcing texts to ignore reality and reinforce the assumption that disability is a problem to be fixed. She sifts the freak characters, often marked as disabled, and she reclaims the derided genre of problem novels arguing they empower disabled characters and introduce the goals of disability-rights movements. The analysis offered expands to include narratives in other media: nonfiction essays and memoirs, songs, television series, films, and digital narratives. These contemporary works, affected by digital media, combine elements of literary criticism, narrative expression, disability theory, and political activism to create and represent the solidarity of family-like communities.

A Family's Journey Through Autism (Hardcover): Maggie Weathersby A Family's Journey Through Autism (Hardcover)
Maggie Weathersby
R781 Discovery Miles 7 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Sub - Inside the Notorious School District of Philadelphia (Hardcover): Clayvon C. Harris Sub - Inside the Notorious School District of Philadelphia (Hardcover)
Clayvon C. Harris
R771 Discovery Miles 7 710 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Growing Up in God's Country - A Memoir (Hardcover): El Mcmeen Growing Up in God's Country - A Memoir (Hardcover)
El Mcmeen
R872 Discovery Miles 8 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Underdogs - Children, Dogs, and the Power of Unconditional Love [Large Print] (Paperback, Large type / large print... The Underdogs - Children, Dogs, and the Power of Unconditional Love [Large Print] (Paperback, Large type / large print edition)
Melissa Fay Greene
R710 R637 Discovery Miles 6 370 Save R73 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

From two-time National Book Award nominee Melissa Fay Greene comes a profound and surprising account of dogs on the front lines of rescuing both children and adults from the trenches of grief, emotional, physical, and cognitive disability, and post-traumatic stress disorder. The Underdogs tells the story of Karen Shirk, felled at age twenty-four by a neuromuscular disease and facing life as a ventilator-dependent, immobile patient, who was turned down by every service dog agency in the country because she was "too disabled." Her nurse encouraged her to tone down the suicidal thoughts, find a puppy, and raise her own service dog. Karen did this, and Ben, a German shepherd, dragged her back into life. "How many people are stranded like I was," she wondered, "who would lead productive lives if only they had a dog?" A thousand state-of-the-art dogs later, Karen Shirk's service dog academy, 4 Paws for Ability, is restoring broken children and their families to life. Long shunned by scientists as a manmade, synthetic species, and oft- referred to as "Man's Best Friend" almost patronizingly, dogs are finally paid respectful attention by a new generation of neuroscientists and animal behaviorists. Melissa Fay Greene weaves the latest scientific discoveries about our co-evolution with dogs with Karen's story and a few exquisitely rendered stories of suffering children and their heartbroken families. Written with characteristic insight, humanity, humor, and irrepressible joy, what could have been merely touching is a penetrating, compassionate exploration of larger questions: about our attachment to dogs, what constitutes a productive life, and what can be accomplished with unconditional love.

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