Understanding Disability

• Author : Peggy Quinn
• Publisher : SAGE
• Release : 11 September 1997

Understanding Disability details expected developmental stages for those without disabilities as well as the impact of disability at each of these periods. This is a much needed reference for working with a person with a disability, or with a family member or other interested party. Beginning with infancy and the diagnosis of congenital or early onset disabilities, the book identifies traditional developmental life stages and then provides specific information for four different disabilities: Down syndrome, visual impairment, cerebral palsy, and

• Author : Paul T. Jaeger,Cynthia Ann Bowman
• Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
• Release : 04 December 2021

Although 54 million Americans have a disability, few discussions of the issue address its various compenents in a holistic manner. The authors, both of whom have experienced disability, tackle complex issues facing the disabled, including access, diversity, and civil rights, in a human-centered manner.

• Author : Michael Oliver
• Publisher : Macmillan International Higher Education
• Release : 13 November 1995

A development of some of the main themes and issues surrounding disability that have arisen since the mid-1970s. By relating these developments to the author's own biography throughout this time, this text challenges the personal and social perceptions of disability.

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Macmillan International Higher Education
• Release : 04 December 2021

In this absorbing text by a leading writer and respected activist, theory, policy, historical background and personal experience are combined to give readers a rich and illuminating picture of the key issues raised by disability. In the author's uniquely clear and lively narrative style, the book explores:the practical and political challenges that disablement presents theoretical understandings of disability disability law and the realities of policy implementation key points of contention for the disability movementThis long-awaited new edition of a

• Author : Peggy Quinn
• Publisher : SAGE Publications
• Release : 11 September 1997

Beginning with infancy and the diagnosis of congenital or early onset disabilities, this book identifies traditional developmental life stages for those with disabilities as well as the impact of disability at each of these periods. It then provides specific information for four different disabilities: Down's syndrome, visual impairment, cerebral palsy and spina bifida. Spinal cord injury at the young adult stage of development is also included. With this knowledge, the reader can determine expected age-appropriate activities and accomplishments as well

• Author : Michael L. Wehmeyer,Dana Dunn
• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
• Release : 04 December 2021

Personal factors are an element of social-ecological models of disability but have not been well defined or described. The Positive Psychology of Personal Factors examines personal factors from the field of positive psychology to begin to identify and build strengths-based approaches to promoting the full participation, dignity, and well-being of disabled people.

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Macmillan International Higher Education
• Release : 08 February 1999

• Author : Alan Roulstone,Simon Prideaux
• Publisher : Policy Press
• Release : 04 December 2021

In an era of scarce social resources, the question of changing social policy constructions and responses to disabled people has become increasingly important. This text locates disability policy into broader social policy and welfare policy writings, embracing a range of indicators of disabled people's welfare.

• Author : Mark C. Weber
• Publisher : LexisNexis
• Release : 10 February 2012

Understanding Disability Law discusses important statutory and constitutional issues relating to disability discrimination. It is designed to help students in Disability Law courses synthesize and apply the materials they are learning. It is also designed to function as a compact treatise for practicing lawyers and others looking for an analysis of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Americans with Disabilities Act, section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, the Fair Housing Act Amendments, and other laws, as they

• Author : Hanna Björg Sigurjónsdóttir,James G. Rice
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 25 October 2021

Understanding Disability Throughout History explores seldom-heard voices from the past by studying the hidden lives of disabled people before the concept of disability existed culturally, socially and administratively. The book focuses on Iceland from the Age of Settlement, traditionally considered to have taken place from 874 to 930, until the 1936 Law on Social Security (Lög um almannatryggingar), which is the first time that disabled people were referenced in Iceland as a legal or administrative category. Data sources analysed in the project

• Author : Bruce Henderson,Noam Ostrander
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 13 September 2013

This collection brings together scholarship and creative writing that brings together two of the most innovative fields to emerge from critical and cultural studies in the past few decades: Disability studies and performance studies. It draws on writings about such media as live performance art, photography, silent film, dance, personal narrative and theatre, using such diverse perspectives and methods as queer theory, gender, feminist, and masculinity studies, dance studies, as well as providing first publication of creative writings by award-winning

• Author : Fayyaz Vellani
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 24 February 2016

Examining the UK Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) in comparison to its counterparts in the USA and Australia, this book focuses on how it is being interpreted and acted upon in the context of higher education, a key area of national attention in the UK. It also evaluates this law in the context of the larger project of civil rights legislation and demonstrates that geography can be used to explain law and legal arguments by highlighting their subjectivity and by emphasizing

• Author : Leah Burch
• Publisher : Springer Nature
• Release : 04 December 2021

• Author : Tonette S. Rocco
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release : 21 December 2011

Disability can affect adults across the life span—and it isthe one minority group every person could join. This sourcebookaims to broaden the view of disability from a medical or economicconcern to a social justice concern. It examines practical, theoretical, and research aspects ofdisability—including those who question disabilityclassifications—and situates it as a political and socialjustice concern, technical and pragmatic concern, and personalexperience. The authors present the perspectives of individualswith disabilities, service providers, parents, and teachers andoffer analyses that

• Author : Jill Porter
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 13 August 2014

Understanding and Responding to the Experience of Disability informs readers about current understandings of disability and ways of recognizing the needs that arise from the lived experience of impairment in schools. While most schools have clear procedures in place with respect to identifying children with special educational needs, the same is not true for disability. Moreover, research suggests that many schools have restricted understanding of this distinction, often equating disability to children with SEN and children with health conditions, thereby