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  • Direct Support from a Manager's Viewpoint

    A Little Day Habilitation Companion

    by Amara M. Kamara ...
    DIRECT SUPPORT from a manager's Viewpoint is about answering the frequent how-to questions of direct support. It offers completely new approaches to working with people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (special needs) by clearly providing readers with understanding of routines, of dealing with challenges arising from individual uniqueness, and of an easy-to-master art of engagement ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • Solitary Courage

    Mona Winberg and the Triumph over Disability

    by Mona Winberg ...
    Solitary Courage is the story of a mother’s tough-love determination, her severely disabled daughter’s astonishing triumphs, and a documentary record of the political battles, organizational conflicts, and human struggles that citizens with disabilities face and fight every day of their lives.Mona Winberg became a pioneer of independent living, and emerged a leading advocate for citizens with ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Too Late to Die Young

    Nearly True Tales from a Life

    by Harriet McBryde Johnson ...
    With a voice as disarmingly bold, funny, and unsentimental as its author, a thoroughly unconventional memoir that shatters the myth of the tragic disabled lifeHarriet McBryde Johnson isn't sure, but she thinks one of her earliest memories was learning that she will die. The message came from a maudlin TV commercial for the Muscular Dystrophy Association that featured a boy who looked a lot like ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Disability and Contemporary Performance

    Bodies on the Edge

    by Petra Kuppers ...
    Disability and Contemporary Performance presents a remarkable challenge to existing assumptions about disability and artistic practice. In particular, it explores where cultural knowledge about disability leaves off, and the lived experience of difference begins. Petra Kuppers, herself an award-winning artist and theorist, investigates the ways in which disabled performers challenge, change and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Managing with Asperger Syndrome

    by Malcolm Johnson ...
    This insider account provides much-needed information about a subject of increasing interest: people with Asperger Syndrome (AS) working in management positions. Johnson draws on his personal experiences to explain how elements such as the working environment, managing staff, group dynamics and office politics can have a profound influence on work performance. He provides useful examples and ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Life as Jamie Knows It

    An Exceptional Child Grows Up

    by Michael Berube ...
    The story of Jamie Bérubé’s journey to adulthood and a meditation on disability in American lifePublished in 1996, Life as We Know It introduced Jamie Bérubé to the world as a sweet, bright, gregarious little boy who loves the Beatles, pizza, and making lists. When he is asked in his preschool class what he would like to be when he grows up, he responds with one word: big. At four, he is like many ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Our Better Angels

    Stories of Disability in Life, Science, and Literature

    by J. David Smith ...
    Do children and adults with disabilities enrich our lives? Far more than most people imagine.Our Better Angels is a testament to the value of individuals with disabilities and the value that society could derive from being more welcoming to and inclusive of them. The reward is the powerful humanizing influence that they can have on others-even some of the most hardened people among us.Colorful, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Reading Sounds

    Closed-Captioned Media and Popular Culture

    by Sean Zdenek ...
    Imagine a common movie scene: a hero confronts a villain. Captioning such a moment would at first glance seem as basic as transcribing the dialogue. But consider the choices involved: How do you convey the sarcasm in a comeback? Do you include a henchman's muttering in the background? Does the villain emit a scream, a grunt, or a howl as he goes down? And how do you note a gunshot without spoiling ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Special Children, Special Risks

    The Maltreatment of Children with Disabilities

    Edited by James Gararino, Patrick E. Brookhouser, Karen J. Authier ...
    Series series Modern Applications of Social Work Series
    How does one investigate a child maltreatment case when the victim is blind, mute, deaf, mentally retarded, or confined to an institution? Special Children, Special Risks presents analysis, recommendations, and related research from social work, psychology, psychiatry, medicine, and education essential for establishing and maintaining safe environments for handicapped children.This book brings ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Changing Social Attitudes Toward Disability

    Perspectives from historical, cultural, and educational studies

    Edited by David Bolt ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Disability Studies
    Whilst legislation may have progressed internationally and nationally for disabled people, barriers continue to exist, of which one of the most pervasive and ingrained is attitudinal. Social attitudes are often rooted in a lack of knowledge and are perpetuated through erroneous stereotypes, and ultimately these legal and policy changes are ineffectual without a corresponding attitudinal change ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Going to Church

    by Sheila Hollins ...
    Belonging to a community reduces isolation, gives people meaning and purpose, and can equip people to contribute more fully. To belong to a community means that people recognise you for who you are, care for you and miss you when you are not there.Going to Church can support people to explore aspects of a church community, and to decide if they want to be part of it. It will also help a church ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Disability and the Welfare State in Britain

    Changes in Perception and Policy 1948–79

    by Jameel Hampton ...
    Created during and after the Second World War, the British Welfare State seemed to promise welfare for all, but, in its original form, excluded millions of disabled people. This book examines attempts in the subsequent three decades to reverse this exclusion. It is the first to contextualise disability historically in the welfare state and under each government of the period. It looks at how ... Read more

    $44.09 USD