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Interdisciplinary Disability Studies Serie de eBooks

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  • Organizing the Blind

    The case of ONCE in Spain

    de Roberto Garvía ...
    Series series Interdisciplinary Disability Studies
    This book is a case study which narrates the history of the National Organization of the Spanish Blind (ONCE), established in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War. Contrary to other affluent countries where most blind people live on welfare benefits, the Spanish blind enjoy full employment. Furthermore, the average income of the Spanish blind is higher than that of the sighted. Why is this so? Why ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

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  • Cockeyed

    de Ryan Knighton ...
    On his 18th birthday, Ryan Knighton was diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP), a congenital, progressive disease marked by night-blindness, tunnel vision and, eventually, total blindness. In this penetrating, nervy memoir, which ricochets between meditation and black comedy, Knighton tells the story of his fifteen-year descent into blindness while incidentally revealing the world of the sighted ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Preemie Voices

    Young men and women born very prematurely describe their lives, challenges and achievements

    de Saroj Saigal, MD, FRCP (C), FAAP ...
    The birth of a very premature baby is a shock for parents. The immediate anxiety about whether their infant will survive quickly leads to concerns about their child’s future quality of life. In this inspiring and informative book, young people who were born weighing less than two pounds, three ounces provide candid and personal stories about their lives, challenges and accomplishments. Now in ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • A Special Hell

    Institutional Life in Alberta's Eugenic Years

    de Claudia Malacrida ...
    Using rare interviews with former inmates and workers, institutional documentation, and governmental archives, Claudia Malacrida illuminates the dark history of the treatment of “mentally defective” children and adults in twentieth-century Alberta. Focusing on the Michener Centre in Red Deer, one of the last such facilities operating in Canada, A Special Hell is a sobering account of the ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • Brilliant Imperfection

    Grappling with Cure

    de Eli Clare ...
    In Brilliant Imperfection Eli Clare uses memoir, history, and critical analysis to explore cure—the deeply held belief that body-minds considered broken need to be fixed. Cure serves many purposes. It saves lives, manipulates lives, and prioritizes some lives over others. It provides comfort, makes profits, justifies violence, and promises resolution to body-mind loss. Clare grapples with this ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

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  • Employment for Individuals with Asperger Syndrome or Non-Verbal Learning Disability

    Stories and Strategies

    de Yvona Fast ...
    Most people with Non-Verbal Learning Disorder (NLD) or Asperger Syndrome (AS) are underemployed. This book sets out to change this. With practical and technical advice on everything from job hunting to interview techniques, from 'fitting in' in the workplace to whether or not to disclose a diagnosis, this book guides people with NLD or AS successfully through the employment mine field. There is ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • In Dog We Trust (EPUB)

    Stories About Guide Dogs

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $5.46 USD

  • Deaf Gain

    Raising the Stakes for Human Diversity

    Edición de H-Dirksen L. Bauman, Joseph J. Murray ...
    Deaf people are usually regarded by the hearing world as having a lack, as missing a sense. Yet a definition of deaf people based on hearing loss obscures a wealth of ways in which societies have benefited from the significant contributions of deaf people. In this bold intervention into ongoing debates about disability and what it means to be human, experts from a variety of disciplines ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Digital Outcasts

    Moving Technology Forward without Leaving People Behind

    de Kel Smith ...
    The blind person who tries to make an online purchase. The young girl who cannot speak due to a cognitive disability. The man confined to his home due to permanent injury. The single mother with a long-term illness who struggles to feed her family.With one in seven people worldwide currently living with a disability, the term "outcast" covers numerous scenarios. Digital outcasts rely on technology ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • Joel: An Unexpected Hero

    de Jane Butcher ...
    Series series Adventures
    Rebecca loves her younger brother Joel, but sometimes she finds it hard to look after him – Joel has Down’s syndrome. One day, when Rebecca and Joel discover a ring of toadstools used by elves, they find themselves transported into a magical world in which Joel is the hero. Soon Rebecca discovers that her brother possesses very special qualities that she had not noticed before… Eons ago when the ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

  • Disability and Contemporary Performance

    Bodies on the Edge

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • The Politics of Age and Disability in Contemporary Spanish Film

    Plus Ultra Pluralism

    de Matthew J. Marr ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Film Studies
    The Politics of Age and Disability in Contemporary Spanish Film examines the onscreen construction of adolescent, elderly, and disabled subjects in Spanish cinema from 1992 to the present. Applying a dual lens of film analysis and theory drawn from the allied fields of youth, age, and disability studies, this study is set both within and against a conversation on cultural diversity—with respect to ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD