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  • Assistive Technologies for Physical and Cognitive Disabilities
    Lau Bee Theng
    Research on assistive technologies is undergoing many developments in its effectiveness in helping those with varying impairments. New technologies are constantly being created, researched, and implemented for those who need these technological aides in daily life. Assistive Technologies for Physical and Cognitive Disabilities combines worldwide cases on people with physical an...
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    268,95 €

  • Elliot & Geoffrey
    Bianca Torrico
    Elliot and Geoffrey are animals that are different. They each feel unimportant and have no friends. Once they meet, they realize the importance of dealing with their differences. They learn how to overcome their fears and grow from the experience. This story teaches how to choose good, caring friends instead of those who only like to make fun of others. 3 ...
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    22,16 €

  • Environmental Contexts and Disability
    This volume presents papers which address both individual and societal levels of environment in relation to disability and shed new light on the processes involved with creating or modifying these environmental supports or barriers. ...
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    246,22 €

  • Holly
    Val Sterley
    Holly is the story of a girl with locked-in syndrome denying her speech, she is also spastic and has limited control of her body. She is sent to various homes and institutions. Holly is abused, and the really frightening fact was that there could never be restitution. But she is in there, inside her lolling head and silent mouth, and her bright mind struggles to make sense of h...
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    18,74 €

  • Families in Rehabilitation Counseling
    Michael J. Millington / Michael JMillington
    Presents an innovative family-based approach to rehabilitation counseling that can be put to use immediately! While the family has traditionally been a secondary consideration in rehabilitation, this graduate text presents an innovative approach to rehabilitation counseling that focuses on the family as the center of a person-centered model, rather than as an adjunct to individ...
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    110,07 €

  • Rainbow Living
    Tracey A. Rockey
    'Rainbow Living' is a charity that seeks to provide housing and support for people with disabilities. This book describes the events that prompted the formation of the charity. It is a story detailing real lives, the challenges faced by young people and their families, and their journey to live independent lives. It is a story of faith, hope, and trust in God, who works through...
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    31,53 €

  • Rainbow Living
    Tracey A. Rockey
    'Rainbow Living' is a charity that seeks to provide housing and support for people with disabilities. This book describes the events that prompted the formation of the charity. It is a story detailing real lives, the challenges faced by young people and their families, and their journey to live independent lives. It is a story of faith, hope, and trust in God, who works through...
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    17,98 €

  • This Far By Faith
    Faith Fowler
    Through reports nationwide, including the Wall Street Journal and TV news, Americans are discovering Faith Fowler's ideas for transforming lives in Detroit. Known for her deep faith and creative ideas, Faith serves as one of the city's leading pastors and as a nonprofit entrepreneur. As a co-founder of a wide array of Cass startups, Faith and her Cass community are turn...
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    25,20 €

  • All You Need to Know about Disability Is on Star Trek
    Ilana S. Lehmann
    High Praise from Charles Edmund Degeneffe, Ph.D., CRC, ACSWSan Diego State University'Through its nearly 50 year history, the Star Trek franchise reflects trends, debates, and cultural beliefs of modern society. Through 'All You Need to Know About Disability is On Star Trek' Dr. Ilana Lehmann demonstrates how this show addresses disability related content in its reflection of c...
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    41,03 €

  • The Politics of Disability
    Peter Gibilisco
    We are confronted by neoliberalism and the inhumane consequences of its economic policies. The claim that 'there is no alternative' to profit-making simply denies basic features of everyday reality. The Politics of Disability asks: Just where does all of this leave people with disabilities? What are their alternatives? They are among the most downtrodden people, frequently trea...
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    26,02 €

  • Enhancing the Human Experience through Assistive Technologies and E-Accessibility
    Christos Kouroupetroglou
    Information Communication Technologies (ICT) have become an increasingly prevalent part of everyday life. Today, there are many cases in which ICT assist the elderly and people with disabilities to complete tasks once thought impossible. Enhancing the Human Experience through Assistive Technologies and E-Accessibility discusses trends in ICT in relation to assistive technologie...
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    347,44 €

  • My Life in Institutions and My Way Out
    Michael Joseph Kennedy
    This is the story of Michael Kennedy’s life. Born in 1960 with significant disabilities, he describes his early experiences living in three different institutions for the mentally retarded and how he had to become his own advocate if he was going to survive. He soon realized that, unlike most of the others in institutions, he could make his voice heard. He had to speak up to h...
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    23,69 €

  • My Life in Institutions and My Way Out
    Michael Joseph Kennedy
    This is the story of Michael Kennedy’s life. Born in 1960 with significant disabilities, he describes his early experiences living in three different institutions for the mentally retarded and how he had to become his own advocate if he was going to survive. He soon realized that, unlike most of the others in institutions, he could make his voice heard. He had to speak up to h...
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    12,64 €

  • Direct Support from a Manager’s Viewpoint
    Amara M. Kamara
    DIRECT SUPPORT from a manager’s Viewpoint is about answering the frequent how-to questions of direct support. It offers completely new approaches to working with people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (special needs) by clearly providing readers with understanding of routines, of dealing with challenges arising from individual uniqueness, and of an easy-to-mast...
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    19,77 €

  • Coping with Physical Loss and Disability
    Rick Ritter / Ana Stevenson
    This workbook provides more than 50 questions and exercises designed to empower those with physical loss and disability to better understand and accept their ongoing processes of loss and recovery. The exercises in Coping with Physical Loss and Disability were distilled from twenty-five years of clinical social work experience with clients suffering from quadriplegia, paraplegi...
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    14,80 €

  • 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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    117,15 €

  • Pekoe
    Candace LNewland
    The little kitten was cold, alone and afraid. When a kind voice and the smell of food entices him to come out of the woods, he finds himself taken to a warm kitchen. Unable to keep him, his rescuer contacts her neighbor asking if she would be willing to adopt the kitten. Already the owner of two cats, one more would pose no problem but a trip to the veterinarian reveals that...
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    28,77 €

  • Universal Design for Learning
    Anne Meyer / David H Rose / David Gordon
    Anne Meyer and David Rose, who first laid out the principles of UDL, provide an ambitious, engaging discussion of new research and best practices. This book gives the UDL field an essential and authoritative learning resource for the coming years.In the 1990s, Anne Meyer, David Rose, and their colleagues at CAST introduced Universal Design for Learning (UDL) as a framework to i...
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    78,47 €

  • Making Rights a Reality?
    Lisa Vanhala
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    48,20 €

  • A Desire for Death
    Saleem
    This novel treats the two themes of incurable diseases and euthanasia at various levels to bring into focus a web of dense arguments legal and medical woven together that never tire the readers in their attempts to grapple with issues of human suffering, disease and death and its over-arching subject of sympathy, pity and humanity. To lend credence to all the impressive argumen...
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    13,28 €

  • A Desire for Death
    Saleem
    This novel treats the two themes of incurable diseases and euthanasia at various levels to bring into focus a web of dense arguments legal and medical woven together that never tire the readers in their attempts to grapple with issues of human suffering, disease and death and its over-arching subject of sympathy, pity and humanity. To lend credence to all the impressive argumen...
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    24,95 €

  • Don’t Just 'Sign'... Communicate!
    Michelle Jay
    An Intimate Journey into the Heart of the Deaf CommunityDon’t Just 'Sign'...Communicate! prepares you to interact with the deaf and hard of hearing - in a knowledgeable and respectful way - by giving you an exclusive glimpse into this rich and diverse community.This eye-opening book will ignite your senses and eliminate any misconceptions you may have about the deaf community. ...
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    18,75 €

  • Disability, Augmentative Communication, and the American Dream
    Jennifer Flad / Jon A. Feucht / Jon AFeucht / Jon Feucht / 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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    123,98 €

  • Foundations of Forensic Vocational Rehabilitation
    Rick Robinson
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    145,69 €

  • Disability and Intersecting Statuses
    Disability can be either an ascribed status or an achieved status and its combination with other statuses will affect the person’s social experiences. This issue challenges critical thinking about the interrelationships with disability. It questions if the concepts and methods of intersectionality can be applied to disability at all. ...
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    246,07 €

  • Autism
    Shannon Williams
    Journey with Pastor Shannon Williams as she details the wonderful and countless miracles that God has performed in the life of her and her family. From barreness, to pregnancy, to 'near' miscarriage, to 96 days of bedrest, to the birth of a 2 pound 13 ounce baby boy! The doctors said he would die and he lived. They also said he would never breathe on his own and he does breathe...
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    17,68 €

  • Assistive Technologies and Computer Access for Motor Disabilities
    Kouroupetroglou
    Individuals with disabilities that impede their range of motion often have difficulty accessing technologies. With the use of computer-based assistive technology; devices, tools, and services can be used to maintain and improve the functional capabilities of motor disabilities. Assistive Technologies and Computer Access for Motor Disabilities investigates solutions to the diffi...
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    262,74 €

  • Disability Informatics and Web Accessibility for Motor Limitations
    Kouroupetroglou
    As technology becomes an increasingly vital aspect of modern social interaction, the field of disability informatics and web accessibility has made significant progress in consolidating theoretical approaches and exploring new application domains for those with motor and cognitive disabilities. Disability Informatics and Web Accessibility for Motor Limitations explores the prin...
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    262,77 €

  • The Kid Who Hated School
    Stacie Kandra
    This project was originally designed as a teaching tool to be used by parents, teachers, students, and other professionals who have the wonderful opportunity to work with kids with special needs. It tells about the difficulties that students face in school and with peers from the perspective of the student. It is the perfect preparation tool for creating a welcoming environment...
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    22,65 €

  • Roots and Fences
    Sharon Gregory Duncan Edd
    Meet Jackie, Chuck, Jonathon, and Jamee-four people intricately linked by the common thread of disability. Roots and Fences tells of their life experiences, as well as their friends and families, from a phenomenological perspective. It’s a compelling collection that exposes the reality of life for those with intellectual disabilities and the people who love them. Through these ...
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    17,36 €


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