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My Heart Can't Even Believe It
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Inclusive Education
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The book will appeal to academics, students and practitioners in disciplines including: education, sociology, social work, social policy, early childhood, disability studies, and youth studies. -
Down Syndrome, Beyond the Intellectual Disability: Persons with Their Own Emotional World
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This book represents an initial effort to integrate the most important findings regarding the study of emotion on DS from a cognitive point of view. The first part of this book is focused on general aspects of DS. Mainly, the human nature of persons with Down syndrome is highlighted beyond the intellectual disability. -
Restricted access : media, disability, and the politics of participation
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Restricted Access makes the crucial point that if digital media open up opportunities for individuals to create and participate, but that technology only facilitates the participation of those who are already privileged, then its progressive potential remains unrealized. Engagingly written with powerful examples, Ellcessor demonstrates the importance of alternate uses, marginalized voices, and invisible innovations in the context of disability identities to push us to rethink digital media accessibility. -
Factors in studying employment for persons with disability : how the picture can change
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This collection examines less frequently anaylzed aspects of employment for persons with disabilities, offering a variety of approaches to the conceptualization of work, and how it differs across cultures, organizations, and types of disability. -
Improving Access to Oral Health Care for Vulnerable and Underserved Populations
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The recommendations provided in Improving Access to Oral Health Care for Vulnerable and Underserved Populations will help direct the efforts of federal, state, and local government agencies; policy makers; health professionals in all fields; private and public health organizations; licensing and accreditation bodies; educational institutions; health care researchers; and philanthropic and advocacy organizations -
Tackling Disability Discrimination and Disability Hate Crime
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Placing the experiences of victims at its heart, this book provides an authoritative overview of disability hate crime - explaining what it is, how it happens, its legal status, the impact on victims and how individuals and agencies should respond. The guide outlines innovative projects developed to address the problem, and provides tailored guidance for professionals spanning education, health and social care, and criminal justice. -
Prenatal Testing and the Politics of Reproduction
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Call Number: RJ 506 .D68 T48 2017This book is available in the Reference area, for in-library use only -
Testing women, testing the fetus : the social impact of amniocentesis in America
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Rich with the voices and stories of participants, these touching, firsthand accounts examine how women of diverse racial, ethnic, class and religious backgrounds perceive prenatal testing, the most prevalent and routinized of the new reproducing technologies. Based on the author's decade of research and her own personal experiences with amniocentesis, Testing Women, Testing the Fetus explores the 'geneticization' of family life in all its complexity and diversity.
Sitting Pretty
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The Complete Guide to Creating a Special Needs Life Plan
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This book provides comprehensive guidance on creating a life plan to transition a special needs child to independence or to ensure they are well cared for in the future. -
Disability, Human Rights and the Limits of Humanitarianism
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Call Number: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=710321&site=ehost-liveIt is the connection between civil rights and human rights, and this concomitant relationship between national and global, which foregrounds this groundbreaking book's contention that disability studies productively challenge such human rights paradigms, which troublingly eschew disability rights in favor of exclusionary humanitarianism. It relocates disability from the margins to the center of academic and activist debates over the vexed relationship between human rights and humanitarianism. -
Americans with Disabilities: State and Local Financing and Systems Reform
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This book identifies and highlights selected activities at the state and local levels that are leading toward increased access to LTSS with federal and state dollars. -
The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain, and Morality
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Call Number: HV 1568 .R48 2022The Life Worth Living is the first sustained examination of disability through the lens of the history of moral philosophy and phenomenology, and it demonstrates how lived experiences of disability demand a far richer account of human flourishing, embodiment, community, and politics in philosophical inquiry and beyond. -
New Narratives of Disability: Constructions, Clashes, and Controversies
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This volume seeks to answer the call for richer, more diverse understandings of disability. We explore how narrative inquiry can broaden perspectives on disability to include pain, suffering, chronic illness, and episodic disability, as well as the perspectives of family members and caregivers, while also serving as a platform for dismantling prejudice and discrimination in order to promote positive social change. -
Perfectly Able: How to Attract and Hire Talented People with Disabilities
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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.
