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  • App and Website Accessibility Developments and Compliance Strategies
    Yakup Akgül
    In the present digital world, the growing number of internet users has made web quality an important factor for accessing online services and increasing the customer base of an organization. The advances in information technology and the internet have opened new dimensions in many different industries. Currently, accessibility research is an active area of research. Specificall...
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    327,76 €

  • The National Disability Insurance Scheme
    The National Disability Insurance Scheme (known commonly as the NDIS) was introduced as a radical new way of funding disability services in Australia. It is a rare moment in politics and policy making that an idea as revolutionary, ambitious and expensive as the NDIS makes it into its implementation phase. Not surprising, then, that the NDIS has been described by many as the bi...
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    242,02 €

  • Disability, Intersectional Agency, and Latinx Identity
    Alexis Padilla
    This interdisciplinary volume links dis/ability and agency by exploring LatDisCrit’s theory and activist emancipatory practice. ...
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    241,27 €

  • Pure Grit
    Kara Buckley / Lily Collison
    'A must-read'--Julie Dussliere, Chief of Paralympic Sport, U.S. Olympic & Paralympic CommitteeNineteen people from across the globe, ranging in age from twenty to seventy-plus, tell their stories of living and thriving in diverse fields -- in sport, the arts, medicine, business and more. With refreshing frankness, they share their successes along with their struggles -- grit is...
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    12,72 €

  • Discursive Psychology and Disability
    Jessica Nina Lester
    This book explores how discursive psychology (DP) research can be applied to disability and the everyday and institutional constructions of bodymind differences. Bringing together both theoretical and empirical work, it illustrates how DP might be leveraged to make visible nuanced understandings of disability and difference writ large. The authors argue that DP can attend to ho...
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    206,22 €

  • How to Conduct Ethnographies of Institutions for People with Cognitive Difficulties
    Kjeld Høgsbro
    This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the methodological, theoretical, and meta-theoretical considerations and guidelines involved in undertaking institutional ethnographic work involving people with cognitive and communicative disabilities.It presents a coherent platform for integrating theory and method built on classical and recent anthropological and sociological t...
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    70,62 €

  • Recognising Human Rights in Different Cultural Contexts
    This book explores the journey of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) as it is interpreted and translated from International Human Rights Law into domestic law and policy in different cultural contexts. Beginning with reflections on ’culture’, ’disability’ and ’human rights’ from different disciplinary perspectives, the work is then o...
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    170,22 €

  • Narrowed Lives
    Reetta Mietola / Simo Vehmas
    What is day-to-day life like for people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities who live in group homes? How do they express their desires and wishes? How do care workers think about them and treat them? Do they have basic rights to activities most of us take for granted: activities like sociability, sexuality, and moral affirmation?  Narrowed Lives is an illuminat...
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    22,88 €

  • Integrating Students with Disabilities in Schools
    Jon Erik Finnvold
    This book explores the ability of the Norwegian school system to support the achievement of formal competencies among children with physical disabilities, as well as its role in the informal dimensions of social participation and networking. Schools contribute to social inclusion in several ways: they are arenas for building official competencies, ensuring future access and suc...
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    83,94 €

  • Disability Inclusion and Inclusive Education
    Sailaja Chennat
    The book approaches the topic of disability, inclusion and inclusive education in a holistic way including both academic and psycho-social perspectives. It also focuses on the contemporary status of disability studies with a multidisciplinary dimension. The experiences and challenges of children with disabilities and the different dimensions of  inclusive education have been si...
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    135,97 €

  • Metanarratives of Disability
    David Bolt
    This book explores multiple metanarratives of disability to introduce and investigate the critical concept of assumed authority and the normative social order from which it derives. ...
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    59,63 €

  • Metanarratives of Disability
    David Bolt
    This book explores multiple metanarratives of disability to introduce and investigate the critical concept of assumed authority and the normative social order from which it derives. ...
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    240,94 €

  • India’s Mental Healthcare Act, 2017
    Brendan D. Kelly / Richard M. Duffy
    This book comprehensively discusses the background to the passing of India’s revolutionary Mental Healthcare Act, 2017, offering a detailed description of the Act itself and a rigorous analysis in the context of the CRPD and the World Health Organization (WHO) standards for mental health law. It examines the fine balance, between complying with the CRPD while still delivering p...
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    207,58 €

  • The ABCs of Structured Discovery Cane Travel for Children
    Merry-Noel Chamberlain
    Structured Discovery Cane Travel (SDCT) is an Orientation and Mobility (O&M) curriculum which focuses on the foundational techniques necessary to develop future independence for students who are blind or visually impaired. The ABCs of Structured Discovery Cane Travel for Children addresses essential non-visual concept development, techniques and mobility skills needed to travel...
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    153,02 €

  • The ABCs of Structured Discovery Cane Travel for Children
    Merry-Noel Chamberlain
    Structured Discovery Cane Travel (SDCT) is an Orientation and Mobility (O&M) curriculum which focuses on the foundational techniques necessary to develop future independence for students who are blind or visually impaired. The ABCs of Structured Discovery Cane Travel for Children addresses essential non-visual concept development, techniques and mobility skills needed to travel...
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    84,71 €

  • (M)othering Labeled Children
    María Cioè-Peña
    This book explores the experiences and identities of minoritized Latinx mothers who are raising a child who is labeled as both an emergent bilingual and dis/abled. It showcases relationships between families and schools and reveals the ways in which school-based decisions regarding disability, language and academic placement impact family dynamics. ...
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    48,19 €

  • (M)othering Labeled Children
    María Cioè-Peña
    This book explores the experiences and identities of minoritized Latinx mothers who are raising a child who is labeled as both an emergent bilingual and dis/abled. It showcases relationships between families and schools and reveals the ways in which school-based decisions regarding disability, language and academic placement impact family dynamics. ...
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    169,80 €

  • Inarticulate Speech of the Heart
    Lawrence (Larry) J McCloskey
    For 40 years, Larry McCloskey has had the privilege of working with persons with disabilities. He applied for a job, which grew into a profession, which-because of the people-became a welcomed vocation. The people in this account might be regarded as common or even unexceptional by modern celebrity culture, but to the examining mind they are really quite astonishing. Here, Larr...
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    16,64 €

  • Empowering Persons With Disabilities 2.0
    Jr. Richard Dicks / JrRichard Dicks
    This guide offers a slightly different service model from Dicks’ first guide, and includes sensory disabilitiessuch as Blind/Low Vision and Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing. The methods of administration in the first guide provide a blueprint on how to provide accurate, timely and effective communication for persons with disabilities.In this guide, Empowering Persons with Disabilities ...
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    13,67 €

  • Disability Studies in India
    Nilika Mehrotra
    This book examines the state of art in disability studies, focusing on the Indian context, as well as the broader South Asian situation. It presents interdisciplinary perspectives on the basic idea, evolution, practices and challenges of researching and teaching disability studies at various higher education institutions and in other civil society spaces. The chapters address a...
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    210,18 €

  • At the Intersection of Disability and Drama
    John Michael Sefel
    'Cripples ain’t supposed to be happy' sings Anita Hollander, balancing on her single leg and grinning broadly. This moment--from her multi-award-winning one-woman show, Still Standing--captures the essence of this theatre anthology. Hollander and nineteen other playwright-performers craftily subvert and smash stereotypes about how those within the disability community should...
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    73,76 €

  • Committed
    Susan Burch
    Between 1902 and 1934, the United States confined hundreds of adults and children from dozens of Native nations at the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians, a federal psychiatric hospital in South Dakota. But detention at the Indian Asylum, as families experienced it, was not the beginning or end of the story. For them, Canton Asylum was one of many places of imposed removal and co...
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    121,83 €

  • Committed
    Susan Burch
    Between 1902 and 1934, the United States confined hundreds of adults and children from dozens of Native nations at the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians, a federal psychiatric hospital in South Dakota. But detention at the Indian Asylum, as families experienced it, was not the beginning or end of the story. For them, Canton Asylum was one of many places of imposed removal and co...
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    27,75 €

  • Students with Disabilities and the Transition to Work
    Oliver Mutanga
    This book sets out to understand how students with disabilities experience higher education and the transition to the workplace. It foregrounds the voices of students and graduates in order to explore identity, inclusion, participation and success of youth with disabilities in higher education, as well as their transition from university to employment.The author proposes a new ...
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    70,89 €

  • Disability and Social Representations Theory
    Berth Danermark / Per Germundsson / Vinaya Manchaiah
    Disability and Social Representations Theory provides theoretical and methodological knowledge to uncover the public perception of disabilities. ...
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    70,75 €

  • Intellectual disability
    Patrick McDonagh
    This collection of essays investigates the historical genealogy of our contemporary ideas of intellectual or learning disability. The essays engage with literary, educational, cultural, legal, religious, psychiatric and philosophical histories to track how and why these precursor ideas arose and explore how they helped shape current concepts. ...
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    36,83 €

  • The Will of the Creator
    Sammy Levitt
    The Will of the Creator is the story of a serial killer in Philadelphia in the early 1980s. Charley, a Vietnam veteran who was sent home from the war after sustaining a gunshot wound to his head, is a main character. Charley, back in the States, receives brain surgery and is saved. Unfortunately, during his operation, Charley had a stroke. He opens a luncheonette along with his...
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    19,27 €

  • Empowering Persons With Disabilities
    Jr. Richard Dicks / JrRichard Dicks
    This guide is to help users become and remain proactive in serving disabled victims of crime through public agencies, community-based care organizations and private corporations by offering tips learned from multidisciplinary teams collaborating in this field.In this guide, you will find content that will help build a service model. Whether you are working in government, a 501c...
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    13,79 €

  • ICT Tools and Applications for Accessible Tourism
    The contribution of tourism to create an inclusive society requires the adoption of new approaches and strategies that promote the accessibility of tourism destinations, allowing all people, regardless of their health condition, to enjoy tourism experiences. To accomplish this objective, it is of utmost relevance to promote the active involvement of all stakeholders of the tour...
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    314,83 €

  • Disability and the Church
    Lamar Hardwick
    Pastor Lamar Hardwick was thirty-six years old when he found out he was on the autism spectrum. This revelation prompted him to reconsider the church’s responsibilities to the disabled community. Insisting that the good news of Jesus affirms God’s image in all people, Hardwick offers practical steps and strategies to build stronger, truly inclusive communities of faith. ...
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    19,95 €


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