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A wide variety of medical conditions that qualify as disabilities
under the Americans with Disabilities Act are explained in
accurate, non-medical terminology. The book clearly details how the
condition is acquired, what happens in the body to create the
disability, how the person may look or act, what social
accommodations are necessary and helpful, as well as guidelines for
adapting the environment. This book's unique approach to
disabilities will make anyone more comfortable when interfacing
with a person who has a disability. People with disabilities are
gaining access to jobs, education, recreation, and other facets of
everyday life that able-bodied people take for granted. Legally the
barriers are down, but psychologically and sociologically, the
barriers are still in place. With this book, knowledge replaces
uncertainty. Designed as an easy reference book, each medical
condition is treated independently so the reader only needs to
spend a few minutes to gain insight on a particular condition. Also
included are a background chapter on anatomy, accommodating
disabilities, and interrelating with someone who has a disability.
This unique book provides a concise yet comprehensive examination,
in non-medical terms, of a wide range of physical disabilities. The
book emphasizes the source of the condition, the effects on a
person's lifestyle, physical appearance, prospects for recovery or
remission, psychological and social accommodation as well as
environmental accommodations. It is an excellent reference for
anyone who may come in contact with a person who has a physical
disability, including human resource personnel, teachers,
therapists, and people who deal with the general public.
In Disability, Public Space Performance and Spectatorship:
Unconscious Performers, Bree Hadley examines the performance
practices of disabled artists in the US, UK, Europe and Australasia
who re-engage, re-enact and re-envisage the stereotyping they are
subject to in the very public spaces and places where this
stereotyping typically plays out.
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.
This much-needed volume fills an overlooked gap in adult
safeguarding - the digital arena - in providing a comprehensive
overview of policy and practice in supporting vulnerable adults
online. Providing an essential analysis illustrated by recent court
rulings and case studies, the authors advocate for the effective
support of adults with learning disabilities and/or mental capacity
issues in their digital lives without compromising their privacy
and participation rights. The text balances a theoretical
exploration of the tensions between participation and protection,
legislation, human rights, professional biases and social wrongs.
It encourages a critical approach in adopting both a practical and
realistic understanding for policy makers, professionals and
students in social work, law and adult social care.
"Mark has been given twice the gift of life, and this book delivers
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battling illness and overcoming obstacles, LIVE LIFE FROM THE
HEART, is chock full of real-world wisdom and powerful life
principles that will change the way you look at your life and the
challenges you face. In fifty-two easy-to-read chapters, you'll
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This collection reflects on the development of disability studies
in German-speaking Europe and brings together interdisciplinary
perspectives on disability in German, Austrian, and Swiss history
and culture. Ableism remains the most socially acceptable form of
intolerance, with pejoratives referencing disability - and
intellectual disability in particular - remaining largely
unquestioned among many. Yet the understanding, depiction, and
representation of disability is also clearly in a process of
transformation. This volume analyzes that transformation, taking a
close look at attitudes toward disability in historical and
contemporary German-speaking contexts. The volume begins with an
overview of the emergence and growth of disability studies in
German-speaking Europe against the background of the field's
emergence a decade or so earlier in the US and UK. The differences
in timing, methodology, and research concentrations bring into
focus how each cultural context has shaped the field of disability
studies in its multiple and diverse approaches. Building on recent
scholarship that uses a cultural studies approach, the volume's
three sections analyze constructs of disability and ability in
history, memory, and culture. The essays in the history section
examine how the emotions, morality, and power have played into -
and still do play into - the individual's experience of disability.
Those in the memory section grapple with the origins of the Nazi
persecution of people with disabilities, the fight for recognition
of this genocide, and the politics of its commemoration. Finally,
the culture section offers close readings of disability in literary
and filmic texts from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
This unique guidebook presents a comprehensive analysis of the
new Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the most significant
federal civil rights law in almost 30 years, and its impact on over
four million American businesses, state and local governments,
nonprofit associations, 87 percent of America's private sector
jobs, and 22.7 million working-age people with disabilities.
Written by two Washington-based experts on the new federal
mandate, the book relies on extensive interviews with federal
officials and the expert opinion of business leaders, leaders in
the disability community, and the authors of the legislation. Fersh
and Thomas provide a clear analysis of the final federal
regulations and their implications for businesses, nonprofit
associations, state and local governments, and managers and
employers who need to make modifications to physical barriers in
places of public accommodation, such as stores and restaurants, and
in barriers to equal employment in the workplace. The book uses
case histories and Congressional reports and testimony to
illustrate new employment procedures--from applications, testing,
and insurance benefits to job descriptions, reasonable
accommodation, and new rights in telecommunications and public
ground transportation. The social, legislative, and economic
history that led to the laW's enactment is illustrated through
photographs and 18 tables. Included are specific guidelines on how
to interview and work with people with disabilities, containing
specific sections on people who use wheelchairs, and people with
mental retardation, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, hearing and visual
impairments, AIDS, speech impairments, learning disabilities, and
mental illness. Also featured are how to sections for developing a
compliance plan, implementing reasonable accommodation, and how to
create an ADA awareness program for employees. The book explores
the successful use of workers with disabilities in companies over
the last twenty years, and the high costs of unemployment among
working-age people with disabilities in tax revenues and lost
productivity. Leaders and experts, such as I. King Jordan, Ph.D.,
president of Gallaudet University, provide short articles on their
perspective of the ADA.
The fifth edition of The Disability Studies Reader addresses the
post-identity theoretical landscape by emphasizing questions of
interdependency and independence, the human-animal relationship,
and issues around the construction or materiality of gender, the
body, and sexuality. Selections explore the underlying biases of
medical and scientific experiments and explode the binary of the
sound and the diseased mind. The collection addresses physical
disabilities, but as always investigates issues around pain, mental
disability, and invisible disabilities as well. Featuring a new
generation of scholars who are dealing with the most current
issues, the fifth edition continues the Reader's tradition of
remaining timely, urgent, and critical.
This book explores the intricate connections that link the current
digitalization of manufacturing to our daily lives and identities
as members of highly technologized societies. Based on extensive
research on the prosthetics industry in Germany, the USA, Canada,
and Haiti, the author demonstrates the socio-material construction
of users, examining the ways in which the introduction of 3D
printing changes how artificial limbs are designed, manufactured,
distributed and used. Addressing questions surrounding the capacity
of flexible production to afford greater diversity of user roles,
and the likelihood of 3D printing allowing for open-source hardware
and the democratization of production, the author presents a theory
of digitalization that sheds light on the dynamics of industrial
transformation and the future of use. An empirically grounded and
conceptually informed study, The Socio-Material Construction of
Users will appeal to researchers in the fields of sociology,
science and technology studies and organization studies, as well as
readers interested in 3D printing and the digitalization of
society.
The collective volume seeks to respond to these questions by
exploring crip time in disability performance as both a concept and
a phenomenon. Out of time has many different meanings, amongst them
outmoded, out of step, under time pressure, no time left, or simply
delayed. In the disability context it may also refer to resistant
attitudes of living in "crip time" that contradict time as a linear
process with a more or less predictable future. According to Alison
Kafer, "crip time bends the clock to meet disabled bodies and
minds." What does this mean in the disability arts? What new
concepts of accessibility, crip futures, and crip resistance can be
staged or created by disability performance? And how does the
notion of "out of time" connect crip time with pandemic time in
disability performance? The book tackles the topic from two angles:
on the one hand from a theoretical point of view that connects
performance analysis with crip and performance theory, on the other
hand from a practice-based perspective of disability artists who
develop new concepts and dramaturgies of crip time based on their
own lived experiences and observations in the field of the
performing and disability arts. The book gathers different types of
text genres, forms and styles that mirror the diversity of their
authors. Besides theoretical and academic chapters on disability
performance the book also includes essays, poems, dramatic texts,
and choreographic concepts that reflect upon the alternative
knowledge in the disability arts.
As medical insurance costs continue to increase, so do the
numbers of Americans who carry no health insurance. This situation,
exacerbated by federal budgetary pressures, has stepped up the
conflict among all those who have a stake in health benefits: the
government, employers, insurers, health providers, and citizens who
need affordable health care. Westerfield examines the dilemmas
behind the conflict over mandated health care, the strategies
employed, and the costs--both social and economic--that must
ultimately be borne.
In Part I, the author looks at the impact of existing health
care legislation and the vigorously debated issues surrounding the
allocation of benefits to specific groups or for specific needs.
Part II focuses on the conflicting goals of those who must pay for
health care, those who provide it, and those who receive it. The
final part begins by addressing major areas of health care, such as
AIDS, chemical dependency, child care, and mental health care.
Describing the strategies and counterstrategies in the struggle
over benefits and costs, the author stresses that it is those most
in need--the underclass and the underemployed--who are in danger of
becoming the ultimate losers in the battle. This book clarifies and
brings a constructive perspective to bear on an issue of concern to
a large professional audience as well as to special interest groups
representing health care consumers.
Although disability imagery is ubiquitous in the Hebrew Bible,
characters with disabilities are not. The presence of the former
does not guarantee the presence of the later. While interpreters
explain away disabilities in specific characters, they celebrate
the rhetorical contributions that disability imagery makes to the
literary artistry of biblical prose and poetry, often as a trope to
describe the suffering or struggles of a presumably nondisabled
person or community. This situation contributes to the appearance
(or illusion) of a Hebrew Bible that uses disability as a rich
literary trope while disavowing the presence of figures or
characters with disabilities.
Isaiah 53 provides a wonderful example of this dynamic at work. The
"Suffering Servant" figure in Isaiah 53 has captured the
imagination of readers since very early in the history of biblical
interpretation. Most interpreters understand the servant as an
otherwise able bodied person who suffers. By contrast, Jeremy
Schipper's study shows that Isaiah 53 describes the servant with
language and imagery typically associated with disability in the
Hebrew Bible and other ancient Near Eastern literature. Informed by
recent work in disability studies from across the humanities, it
traces both the disappearance of the servant's disability from the
interpretative history of Isaiah 53 and the scholarly creation of
the able bodied suffering servant.
This text provides an analysis of the development and consequences
of disability policies, contrasting policies grounded in medical
definitions of disability with a social model of disability
supported by disability rights campaigners in their pursuit of anti
discrimination legislation. British policies are compared with the
civil rights approach adopted in America and Australia and the
welfare orientated stance of countries like Sweden, and the impacts
of policy on disabled people according to their class, gender, age
and ethnicity are explored.
Long Lives Are for the Rich is the title of a silent ominous
program that affects the lives of millions of people. In all
developed countries disadvantaged and, especially, poor people die
much earlier than the most advantaged. During these shorter lives
they suffer ten to twenty years longer from disabilities or chronic
disease. This does not happen accidentally: health inequalities –
including those between healthy and unhealthy life styles – are
mainly caused by social inequalities that are reproduced over the
life course. This crucial function of the life course has become
painfully visible during its neoliberal reorganization since the
early 1980s. Studies about aging over the life course, from birth
to death, show the inhumane consequences as people get older. In
spite of the enormous wealth that has been piled up in the US for a
dwindling percentage of the population, there has been growing
public indifference about the needs of those in jobs with low pay
and high stress, but also about citizens from a broad middle class
who can hardly afford high quality education or healthcare.
However, this ominous program affects all: recent mortality rates
show that all Americans, including the rich, are unhealthier and
dying earlier than citizens of other developed countries. Moreover,
the underlying social inequalities are tearing the population apart
with nasty consequences for all citizens, including the rich.
Although the public awareness of the consequences has been growing,
neoliberal policies remain tempting for the economic and political
elites of the developed world because of the enormous wealth that
is flowing to the top. All this poses urgent questions of social
justice. Unfortunately, the predominant studies of social justice
along the life course help to reproduce these inequalities by
neglecting them. This book analyzes the main dynamics of social
inequality over the life course and proposes a theory of social
justice that sketches a way forward for a country that is willing
to invest in its greatest resource: the creative potential of its
population.
This volume of essays attempts to identify the shared experiences
of disabled children and examine the key debates about their care
and control. The essays follow a chronological progression while
focusing on the practices in a number of different countries.
Fleeing from Nazi Europe in the late 1930s, Austrian-born Karl
Koenig and his colleagues founded the first Camphill community, for
children with special needs, outside Aberdeen in the north of
Scotland. The seven essays by Koenig in this book explain the
principles behind what would grow to become a worldwide movement.
The insights in this book reveal the inner motivations that drove
Koenig and his team to persevere with their social project, and
help modern-day readers to understand how they succeeded in
building a network that now numbers over one hundred communities in
twenty countries around the world. Includes extensive diary
excerpts, documents and photographs from the Karl Koenig Archive.
Delivers knowledge critical to understanding the multidimensional
aspects of working with varied populations with disabilities.This
is the only introduction to disability book with an
interdisciplinary perspective that offers cross-disability and
intersectionality coverage, as well as a special emphasis on many
unique populations. Comprehensive and reader-friendly, it provides
current, evidence-based knowledge on the key principles and
practice of disability, while addressing advocacy, the disability
rights movement, disability legislation, public policy, and law.
Focusing on significant trends, the book provides coverage on
persistent and emerging avenues in disability studies that are
anticipated to impact a growing proportion of individuals in need
of disability services. Woven throughout is an emphasis on
psychosocial adaptation to disability supported by case studies and
field-based experiential exercises. The text addresses the roles
and functions of disability service providers. It also examines
ethics in service delivery, credentialing, career paths, cultural
competency, poverty, infectious diseases, and family and lifespan
perspectives. Reinforcing the need for an interdisciplinary stance,
each chapter discusses how varied disciplines work together to
provide services addressing the whole person. Active learning is
promoted through discussion boxes, self-check questions, and
learning exercises. Faculty support includes PowerPoints, model
syllabi, test bank, and instructor manual. Purchase includes
digital access for use on most mobile devices or computers. Key
Features: Provides readers with key knowledge and skills needed to
effectively practice in multidisciplinary settings Offers
interdisciplinary perspectives on conceptualization, assessment,
and intervention across a broad range of disabilities and client
populations Underscores the intersectionality of disability to
correspond with trends in education focusing on social justice and
underrepresented populations Includes research and discussion boxes
citing current research activities and excerpts from noted experts
in various human service disciplines Promotes active learning with
discussion boxes, multiple-choice questions, case studies with
discussion questions, and field-based experiential exercises
Includes instructor manual, sample syllabi, PowerPoint slides, and
test bank Identifies key references at the end of chapters and
provides resources for additional information Purchase includes
digital access for use on most mobile devices or computers.
Nearly 20% of the population has a disability. Despite this,
mainstream research often does not explicitly address the
methodological and practical issues that can act as barriers to
disabled people's participation in social research. In this book,
Aidley and Fearon provide a concise, practical introduction to
making it easier for everyone to take part in research. Requiring
no prior knowledge about accessible research methods, the book: *
explains how removing barriers to participation will improve the
quality of the research; * covers the research process from design,
to collecting data, to dissemination and publication; * includes
checklists and further reading, as well as useful examples and
vignettes to illustrate how issues play out in practice. This book
will be invaluable to researchers from a variety of backgrounds
looking to increase participation in their research, whether
postgraduate students, experienced academic researchers,
practitioners or professionals.
Join this mother and educator as she searches to find a more
effective way to teach her child to read. While embarking on a
great adventure of learning she finds strength and wisdom never
imagined.This writing is a reflection of the journey she took; how
she changed the course of her daughter's life and the students she
teaches. It tells of the knowledge she gained and how she is now
sharing her findings with others who are searching for a more
effective and efficient way to teach all children to read at their
highest potential.
This book offers a much-needed investigation of moral and political
issues concerning disability, and explores how the experiences of
people with disabilities can lead to reconsideration of prominent
positions on normative issues. Thirteen new essays examine such
topics as the concept of disability, the conditions of justice, the
nature of autonomy, healthcare distribution, and reproductive
choices. The contributors are Norman Daniels, Ellen Daniels Zide,
Leslie P. Francis, Christie Hartley, Richard Hull, Guy Kahane, F.
M. Kamm, Rosalind McDougall, Jeff McMahan, Douglas MacLean,
Susannah Rose, Anita Silvers, Julian Savulescu, Lorella Terzi,
David Wasserman, and Jonathan Wolff.
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