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  • Perfectly Able

    How to Attract and Hire Talented People with Disabilities

    by Lighthouse International ...
    More than 22 million of the almost 173 million working-age individuals in the United States have one or more disabilities. Perfectly Able offers practical guidance for companies large and small on how to hire and retain talented and motivated people from within this largely untapped pool of potential employees. Illustrated with enlightening personal stories, this one-of-a-kind book provides ... Read more

    $9.49 USD

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  • Win Your Social Security Disability Case

    Advance Your SSD Claim and Receive the Benefits You Deserve

    by Benjamin Berkley ...
    Win Your Social Security Disability Case provides step-by-step information to successfully obtain and keep receiving Social Security Disability benefits. All the necessary forms and sample letters required to appeal an unfavorable decision will be provided, along with over 30 medical questionnaires that will assist the treating doctor to establish that his or her patient is disabled.Topics to be ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Disabled People and the Right to Life

    The Protection and Violation of Disabled People’s Most Basic Human Rights

    Edited by Luke Clements, Janet Read ...
    The most basic of human rights, the right to life, is the focus of this book.'Human rights' has increasingly come to be seen as a significant framework, both to aid understanding of the experiences of those who face oppression, and to underpin social, legal and political measures to counter it. Disabled People and the Right to Life uses this framework to explore how disabled people’s right to life ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Quick Guide to Community Care Practice and the Law

    by Michael Mandelstam ...
    Series series Quick Guides Social & Health Care Law & Practice
    This short guide cuts through the confusing mass of legislation to provide a concise and jargon-free explanation of current community care practice and the law.In clear and simple language, it explains the legislation directly relevant to practitioners, including: rules about how people in need get an assessment from local authorities; the assessment of need itself; eligibility for actually ... Read more

    $25.39 USD

  • Community Care Practice and the Law

    Fourth Edition

    by Michael Mandelstam ...
    This fourth edition of Community Care Practice and the Law has been fully updated to reflect the rapid and continuing legal, policy and practice changes affecting community care.It provides comprehensive and jargon-free explanations of community care legislation, as well as other areas of law directly relevant to practitioners, including the NHS, disabled facilities grants and housing adaptations, ... Read more

    $69.69 USD

  • The Development of Disability Rights Under International Law

    From Charity to Human Rights

    by Arlene S. Kanter ...
    The adoption of the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (CPRD) by the United Nations in 2006 is the first comprehensive and binding treaty on the rights of people with disabilities. It establishes the right of people with disabilities to equality, dignity, autonomy, full participation, as well as the right to live in the community, and the right to supported decision-making and ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Restoring Voice to People with Cognitive Disabilities

    Realizing the Right to Equal Recognition before the Law

    by Anna Arstein-Kerslake ...
    Series series Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series
    The right to make decisions is important for every individual. It allows us to express ourselves, discover our likes and dislikes, and lead our lives in the way we desire. People with cognitive disability have historically been denied this right in many different ways - sometimes informally by family members or carers, and other times formally by a courtroom or other legal authority. This book ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Keywords for Disability Studies

    Edited by Rachel Adams, Benjamin Reiss, David Serlin ...
    Series Book 7 - Keywords
    Introduces key terms, concepts, debates, and histories for Disability StudiesKeywords for Disability Studies aims to broaden and define the conceptual framework of disability studies for readers and practitioners in the field and beyond. The volume engages some of the most pressing debates of our time, such as prenatal testing, euthanasia, accessibility in public transportation and the workplace, ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults and the Law

    by Michael Mandelstam ...
    The protection of vulnerable adults is a fast emerging area of work for local authorities, the NHS and other agencies. Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults and the Law, sets this within a comprehensive legal framework. The relevant law and guidance is extensive. It includes Department of Health guidance (No Secrets), human rights, the regulation of health and social care providers, the barring of carers ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Disabling Barriers

    Social Movements, Disability History, and the Law

    by Benjamin Isitt, Ravi Malhotra ...
    Series series Disability Culture and Politics
    Disabling Barriers analyzes issues relating to disability at different moments in Canadian and American history. In this volume, legal scholars, historians, and disability-rights activists demonstrate that disabled people can change their social status by transforming the political and legal discourse surrounding disablement.Employing tools from the fields of law and history, this original ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Disability Law and Human Rights

    Edited by Peter Blanck, Eilionóir Flynn ...
    This handbook provides a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art review of the current and emerging research and policy on disability law.Bringing together a team of respected and experienced experts, the handbook offers a range of jurisdictional and multidisciplinary perspectives. The authors consider historical and contemporary, as well as comparative perspectives of disability law. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Blackstone's Guide to the Equality Act 2010

    Edited by John Wadham, David Ruebain, Anthony Robinson, Susie Uppal ...
    Series series Blackstone's Guides
    The Equality Act 2010 was an extremely significant reform of UK discrimination law, consolidating the existing complex mass of statutory provisions into one statute. The Act brought new rights against discrimination and imposed new duties on employers, service providers and public authorities, and also introduced a new socio-economic duty on public authorities to reduce the inequalities of outcome ... Read more

    $94.49 USD