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  • Land Use Law and Disability
    Robin Paul Malloy
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    49,72 €

  • Invincible
    Shalini F WICKREMESOORIYA PHD
    The book is a collection of stories that reflects the lives of disabled individuals across the globe. Each story is narrated by a courageous individual who refused to be defined and shaped by a label or a medical diagnosis. These individuals chose life and living instead of doom and gloom. They are not international superstars but are stars nevertheless because they valiantly d...
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    16,58 €

  • Invincible
    Shalini F WICKREMESOORIYA PHD
    The book is a collection of stories that reflects the lives of disabled individuals across the globe. Each story is narrated by a courageous individual who refused to be defined and shaped by a label or a medical diagnosis. These individuals chose life and living instead of doom and gloom. They are not international superstars but are stars nevertheless because they valiantly d...
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    27,36 €

  • Just Jill
    Jill Allen-King
    Just Jill is an inspirational and moving account of one woman’s triumph over adversity and how she used her own experience of disability to benefit others. When she was growing up during the 1940s very few people were aware that Jill Allen-King had lost one eye as the result of measles when she was a baby. Her disability was a taboo subject and she attended a normal school, pro...
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    11,47 €

  • Handbook of Research on Diagnosing, Treating, and Managing Intellectual Disabilities
    Rejani Thudalikunnil Gopalan
    Intellectual disabilities can be difficult to detect in children prior to their school-age years. Throughout their lives, individuals with intellectual disabilities may require specialized care and support in order to lead healthy and fulfilled lives. The Handbook of Research on Diagnosing, Treating, and Managing Intellectual Disabilities is a pivotal reference source for the l...
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    276,09 €

  • Wheelchairs Scooters and Sticks
    Terry Reynolds
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    21,75 €

  • Wheelchairs Scooters and Sticks
    Terry Reynolds
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    44,92 €

  • War, disability and rehabilitation in Britain
    Julie Anderson
    Through a series of thematic chapters, this book focuses on the nature of injured and disabled bodies in relation to rehabilitative practices established in Britain during and immediately following the Second World War. ...
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    24,61 €

  • Voices of a Dream
    Do you remember when you were a child? Can you picture that one student in your school who was always teased or bullied because he or she seemed “different?” It may have been the way she walked, or the way he struggled to read. He may have been short. She may have been overweight. He may have had emotional outbursts. She may have used a wheelchair. There was at least one studen...
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    12,32 €

  • Disability and Justice
    Christopher A. Riddle / Christopher ARiddle
    Disability & Justice: The Capabilities Approach in Practice examines the capabilities approach and how, as a matter of justice, the experience of disability is accounted for. It suggests that the capabilities approach is first, unable to properly diagnose both those who are in need as well as the extent to which assistance is required. Furthermore, it is suggested that counterf...
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    53,38 €

  • Deafness, community and culture in Britain
    Martin Atherton
    A case study of deaf people’s leisure in England within a wider British context and gives insights into a misunderstood, misrepresented community. It questions perceptions of deafness as a disability and shows the importance of shared leisure in community formation and how changing patterns of socialisation are affecting British society. ...
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    33,48 €

  • College Success for Students with Disabilities
    Irene Ingersoll
    The demanding workload and fast pace of college often overwhelm students. Without access to the right resources, many of the three million U.S. college students with disabilities fail or drop out--at a much higher rate than their peers. This guide helps students, parents, counselors and psychologists find the appropriate resources and accommodations to help students with disa...
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    42,76 €

  • Tell Me the Number before Infinity
    Becky Taylor / Dena Taylor
    TELL ME THE NUMBER BEFORE INFINITY, THE STORY OF A GIRL WITH A QUIRKY MIND, AN ECCENTRIC FAMILY, AND OH YES, A DISABILITY describes life and the realities of having a disability in 60 short chapters, arranged chronologically. Although several books on disabilities already exist, the use of two narrations is unique. The subject is Becky Taylor, from her birth in 1972 to about ag...
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    14,63 €

  • Fools and idiots?
    Irina Metzler
    Combines modern and medieval approaches to intellectual disability, and engages with a very wide range of sources in order to fill a major gap in this relatively new field, and demonstrate that disability, illness and healthcare are embedded in daily life ...
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    157,34 €

  • Framing the moron
    Gerald O’Brien / Gerald V. O’Brien / Gerald VO'Brien / Gerald VO’Brien
    Framing the moron details the variety of dehumanizing and fear-inducing rhetoric employed by the American eugenic movement during the early twentieth century, which led to tens of thousands of innocent people being involuntarily sterilized, forced into institutions, and otherwise maltreated. ...
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    28,50 €

  • Tangled Webs
    Barbara M. Robinson / Barbara MRobinson
    Bringing up a child is a time-consuming but rewarding task for any parent. But what is it like for the parent of a child with a disability? What then? Anxious and concerned parents, conscientious or dismissive caregivers, arrogant or caring do-gooders, insensitive or dedicated professionals, all come together to form Tangled Webs through which the journey of a child with disabi...
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    13,97 €

  • Able!
    Nancy Henderson
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    17,46 €

  • Disability and Human Rights
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    59,79 €

  • Worth saving
    Sue Wheatcroft
    The first detailed study on the experiences of disabled children during the Second World War. ...
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    29,68 €

  • Disability, Augmentative Communication, and the American Dream
    Berger / Jennifer Flad / Jon A. Feucht / Jon AFeucht / Ronald J. Berger / Ronald JBerger
    Disability, Augmentative Communication, and the American Dream is a collaborative effort to tell the life story of Jon A. Feucht, a man who was born with a form of cerebral palsy that left him reliant on a wheelchair for mobility, with limited use of his arms and an inability to speak without an assistive communication device. It is a story about finding one’s voice, about defy...
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    64,44 €

  • Gramps Is Hard of Hearing
    Neil and Jane Soslow
    Caroline wants to go to the park with her grandfather, but she needs to ask him several times before he understands what she wants. He keeps thinking she’s asking something about the 'dark' or other words that rhyme with 'park,' but he finally gets the gist, and they set out to enjoy the day together. As Caroline spends quality time with her grandfather, she learns all about he...
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    15,22 €

  • Gramps Is Hard of Hearing
    Neil and Jane Soslow
    Caroline wants to go to the park with her grandfather, but she needs to ask him several times before he understands what she wants. He keeps thinking she’s asking something about the 'dark' or other words that rhyme with 'park,' but he finally gets the gist, and they set out to enjoy the day together. As Caroline spends quality time with her grandfather, she learns all about he...
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    28,82 €

  • Typed Words, Loud Voices
    "I'd like coffee, please." "No. I don't believe you. How do I know it is really you who wants coffee and not your friend there subliminally transmitting that to you by touching your shoulder?" Imagine a world where you had to prove you knew your own mind even to get a cup of coffee, where it was generally assumed that you could have no thoughts of your own, so if you di...
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    18,96 €

  • Autism Intervention in the iEra
    Penina Rybak MA CCC-SLP
    I am amazed at the abundant resources this book has to offer! A rich source of fresh ideas, original techniques, references, and information with tried and true approaches to help your child or student reach their potential. This book should be on the bookshelf every parent or educator who touches the lives of individuals on the autism spectrum! Lois Jean Brady, MA/CCC-SLP, CA...
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    28,25 €

  • In Another Person’s Shoes
    Cynthia Phillipson
    In Another Person’s Shoes is about a child with a disability who would benefit by being treated the same way as any able-bodied child. The book’s purpose is to show other children that even though a child with a disability may do things differently from other children, ultimately there are a lot of similarities. 3 ...
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    22,16 €

  • On the Blind Side
    Lynda Smiley
    On the blind side is an account of the rehabilitation of some of the men and women Lynda has trained when they lost their sight either through accident or illness or on the battlefield. They are all heroes. Theirs are stories of bravery and courage, of hope and fulfillment. Arriving at the Enid Whitaker Rehabilitation for the Blind at a crisis point in their lives, often suicid...
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    24,52 €

  • Pieces That Fit
    Karen MacNeill
    Pieces That Fit is a powerful story based on one woman’s struggle to raise an autistic child. Karen’s raw, emotional candor will move you throughout your reading experience. Karen began this journey during Autism Awareness month in April 2014, when she wrote a post a day for thirty days. She received so much love, support, and encouragement from those posts that she is now shar...
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    16,23 €

  • Counseling Theories and Techniques for Rehabilitation and Mental Health Professionals
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    132,60 €

  • Handbook of Learning Disabilities
    Andy Parker
    This book aims to educate the readers about the learning disabilities with the help of extensive information. Learning disability is a realm encompassing several disorders in which a person faces challenges in learning in a conventional manner. Depending on the type and seriousness of the disability, interventions may be used to help an individual learn strategies that will sup...
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    172,82 €

  • The Economics of Disability
    This book brings together research relating to the economics of disability in Ireland in order to provide evidence that can help improve disability policies, services and supports. In doing so, it addresses a number of key questions of relevance to the economic circumstances of people with disabilities, with particular emphasis on the relationship between disability and social ...
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    169,86 €