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  • Gaillard in Deaf America

    A Portrait of the Deaf Community, 1917, Henri Gaillard

    by Henri Gaillard, Robert M. Buchanan ...
    Series Book 3 - Gallaudet Classics in Deaf Studies
    In 1917, Henri Gaillard led a delegation of deaf French men to the United States for the centennial celebration of the American School for the Deaf (ASD). The oldest school for deaf students in America, ASD had been cofounded by renowned deaf French teacher Laurent Clerc, thus inspiring Gaillard’s invitation. Gaillard visited deaf people everywhere he went and recorded his impressions in a ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

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  • Understanding Pathological Demand Avoidance Syndrome in Children

    A Guide for Parents, Teachers and Other Professionals

    by Margaret Duncan, Zara Healy, Ruth Fidler, Phil Christie ...
    Series series JKP Essentials
    This straightforward guide offers a complete overview of Pathological Demand Avoidance Syndrome (PDA) and gives practical advice for overcoming the difficulties it poses in a wide range of contexts from diagnosis through to adulthood.Starting with an exploration into the background of PDA that answers many of the immediate questions triggered when a child is first diagnosed, the book goes on to ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

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  • In Dog We Trust (EPUB)

    Stories About Guide Dogs

    by Members and Friends of Guide Dog Users of Canada, Paul A. Bennett (Editor), Penny Leclair (Editor) ...
    It is awe-inspiring to witness the relationship between a blind person and their loyal, hard-working, intelligent, and loving guide dogs. Of course, every guide dog and blind person is different, so their relationships are all different. This short illustrated book recounts twenty-one heart-felt stories about the relationships between blind people and their guide dogs. Some are funny, some are sad ... Read more

    $5.53 USD

  • All You Need to Know About Disability is on Star Trek

    by Ilana Lehmann ...
    How many psychiatric diagnoses can we pin on Lt. Barclay?Did Seven of Nine have autism?How many wheelchairs were there on Star Trek?Did Janeway have an addiction?Who is the most unethical doctor in Starfleet?"All You Need to Know About Disability is on Star Trek" leads the reader on a bold exploration of the future for people with disabilities as portrayed in Star Trek. Even though the connection ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Disability Media Work

    Opportunities and Obstacles

    by Katie Ellis ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book interrogates trends in training and employment of people with disabilities in the media through an analysis of people with disabilities’ self-representation in media employment. Improving disability representations in the media is vital to improving the social position of people with disability, and including people with lived experience of disability is integral to this process. While ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • A Day in the Life of an Autistic Mind

    by Dennis Adonis ...
    When a mother discovered that her twelve-year-old autistic son has defied the rules of science and suddenly began to show signs that the simplest elements of life can help him to escape the clutches of autism; - she swiftly sent her conscience on a life-changing mission to bring his hidden dreams into reality. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Disability and Employer Practices

    Research across the Disciplines

    Edited by Susanne M. Bruyère ...
    This book is about the employment of people with disabilities in the United States and the important role of employer practices. Nearly one in five people report some form of disability, and they are only half as likely to be employed as those without disabilities. With the aging workforce and returning military veterans both contributing to increasing number of disabilities in the workplace, ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • The Accidental Teacher

    Life Lessons from My Silent Son

    by Annie Lubliner Lehmann ...
    "Jonah Lehmann is an accidental teacher of others, including his family and friends. This personal and touching account of Jonah's life is enlightening, especially to those coming to terms with similar challenges with autism and other cognitive disabilities. It was written with love to support research on autism, and I recommend it to anyone and everyone touched by those of us who are different."- ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Psychiatry, Mental Institutions, and the Mad in Apartheid South Africa

    by Tiffany Fawn Jones ...
    Series series African Studies
    In the late 1970s, South African mental institutions were plagued with scandals about human rights abuse, and psychiatric practitioners were accused of being agents of the apartheid state. Between 1939 and 1994, some psychiatric practitioners supported the mandate of the racist and heteropatriarchal government and most mental patients were treated abysmally. However, unlike studies worldwide that ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Deaf to the Marrow

    Deaf Social Organizing and Active Citizenship in Viet Nam

    by Audrey C. Cooper ...
    In Deaf to the Marrow, public anthropologist Audrey C. Cooper examines the social production and transformation of ideas about language, bodies, and state-structured educational institutions in southern Viet Nam. Focusing on the reform period (1986 to the present), Cooper describes the ways that signed-language practices, ideologies, policies, and programming shape and are shaped by Deaf people’s ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Measure of Manliness

    Disability and Masculinity in the Mid-Victorian Novel

    by Karen Bourrier ...
    Series series Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability
    The Measure of Manliness is among the first books to focus on representations of disability in Victorian literature, showing that far from being marginalized or pathologized, disability was central to the narrative form of the mid-century novel. Mid-Victorian novels evidenced a proliferation of male characters with disabilities, a phenomenon that author Karen Bourrier sees as a response to the ... Read more

    $25.89 USD

  • Autism Equality in the Workplace

    Removing Barriers and Challenging Discrimination

    by Janine Booth ...
    Neurodiversity in the workplace can be a gift. Yet only 15% of adults with an autism spectrum condition (ASC) are in full-time employment. This book examines how the working environment can embrace autistic people in a positive way.The author highlights common challenges in the workplace for people with ASC, such as discrimination and lack of communication or the right kind of support from ... Read more

    $17.99 USD