Technology and Disability: 50 Years of Trace R&D Center Contributions and Lessons Learned
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031092139 | 287 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 39 MB
This book outlines the development of the Trace R&D Center as an institution for furthering accessible and assistive technologies. The book walks readers through the Center's nascent attempts to solve individual challenges with augmentative communication devices through contemporary efforts to establish global frameworks and infrastructures for accessibility. This book is premised on the Center's mission to maximize the potential of people with disabilities by harnessing evolving technologies while at the same time dismantling the barriers created by those same technological advancements. Readers will learn how this has been done in the past and why this practice should be a fundamental and integrated feature in new technology planning and implementation. The book touches on pre-internet technologies before exploring the huge implications of, first, the personal computer and, second, the Internet. In parallel with the massive growth in scale rendered by the launch of the Web, the book traces the expansion of the Center's focus from the individual to the universal, particularly in working to establish accessibility standards and infrastructures. Learning from the successes and failures of the Center, the book outlines many past challenges and future directions for the development of technologies for people with disabilities from the research and industry perspectives.

Rochambeau Lainy, "Disability, Diversity and Inclusive Education in Haiti: Learning, Exclusion and Educational Relationships in the Context"
English | ISBN: 103238946X | 2022 | 254 pages | PDF | 7 MB
This book examines disability, diversity, and schooling exclusion in Haiti in the wake of Hurricane Matthew. Defending a social and anthropological conception of disability as a consequence of any situation that makes a subject uncomfortable and unable to live or act properly, the book explores the difficulties that disabled children face within the school system and considers how social exclusion provokes and exacerbates educational exclusion. With contributions from linguists, educational sociologists, educational psychologists, educators, and historians, the chapters focus on a range of phenomena such as the balance of languages used for teaching, gender equity, associated disorders, and the experiences of left-handed and deaf students. Ultimately, the authors demonstrate how the educational relationships built and practiced in school influence the perceptions of people with disabilities, with respect to both singular contexts and pedagogical practices. As such, it represents an important study of the relationship between school exclusion, disability, and those with precarious socio-familial conditions, and how they can be conceptualized and addressed in the context of crises. It will appeal to scholars, researchers, and academics with interests in diversity and inclusive education, pedagogy, crisis education, and educational psychology.

Radu Harald Dinu, "Disability and Labour in the Twentieth Century "
English | ISBN: 1032327537 | 2022 | 250 pages | PDF | 22 MB
This volume puts disability and labour at the centre of historical enquiry. It offers fresh perspectives on the history of disability and labour in the twentieth century and highlights the need to address the topic beyond regional boundaries. Bringing together historians and disability scholars from a variety of disciplines and regions, the chapters investigate various historical settings, ranging from work cooperatives to disability associations and informal workplaces, and analyse multiple meanings of labour in different political and economic systems through the lens of disability.

Disability in the Christian Tradition: A Reader By Brian Brock, John Swinton
2012 | 576 Pages | ISBN: 0802866026 | EPUB | 4 MB
For two millennia Christians have thought about what human impairment is and how faith communities and society should respond to people with perceived impairments. However, never before has one volume collected the most significant Christian thinkers' writings on disability. Brian Brock and John Swinton have answered this need with Disability in the Christian Tradition. This book brings together for the first time the views of renowned Christian leaders throughout history - including Augustine, Aquinas, Julian of Norwich, Luther, Calvin, Hegel, Kierkegaard, van den Bergh, Bonhoeffer, Barth, Vanier, and Hauerwas. Fourteen experts in theology and disability studies guide readers through each era or group of thinkers, offering clear commentary and highlighting important themes.

Kirsti Bohata, "Disability in industrial Britain: A cultural and literary history of impairment in the coal industry, 1880-1948 "
English | ISBN: 1526124319 | 2020 | 288 pages | EPUB | 1226 KB
An electronic version of this book is also available under a Creative Commons (CC-BY-NC-ND) license, thanks to the support of the Wellcome Trust.

, "Disability and the Victorians: Attitudes, interventions, legacies "
English | ISBN: 1526145715 | 2020 | 216 pages | EPUB | 813 KB
Disability and the Victorians brings together in one collection a range of topics, perspectives and experiences from the Victorian era that present a unique overview of the development and impact of attitudes and interventions towards those with impairments during this time. The collection also considers how the legacies of these actions can be seen to have continued throughout the twentieth century right up to the present day. Subjects addressed include deafness, blindness, language delay, substance dependency, imperialism and the representation of disabled characters in popular fiction. These varied topics illustrate how common themes can be found in how Victorian philanthropists and administrators responded to those under their care. Often character, morality and the chance to be restored to productivity and usefulness overrode medical need and this both influenced and reflected wider societal views of impairment and inability.

Disability Rights and the American Social Safety Net By Jennifer L. Erkulwater
2006 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 0801444179 | PDF | 27 MB
The recent history of the American welfare state has been viewed with dismay by those on the left because of the steady contraction of benefits under both Republican and Democratic administrations. In contrast, Jennifer L. Erkulwater describes the remarkable success of advocacy for the disabled at a time when the federal government was seemingly impervious to liberal policy innovations.Since the War on Poverty the American public's support for social-welfare policies has gradually eroded as conservative politicians have gained power and demographic changes and uncertain economic growth have enhanced pressures for fiscal retrenchment. Yet, the past thirty years have also seen a dramatic expansion of disability benefits. This book is the first to examine how entitlements for the disabled have fared in the wake of the disability-rights movement. This movement initially fought to end the institutionalization of the severely disabled and moved on to claim that antidiscrimination laws would allow the disabled to work and become less dependent on welfare. It also had a profound impact on entitlements.Erkulwater demonstrates that the Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income programs enacted between 1972 and 2000 succeeded because policy elites switched from welfare-based approaches to the civil-rights rhetoric used by the disability-rights movement. The work of liberal advocates who sought to end the segregation of the disabled in custodial institutions and integrate them into their home communities contributed to the growth of programs providing financial assistance to disabled citizens and to the recent controversies surrounding the future direction of disability policy.

Bruce J. Dierenfield, "Disability Rights and Religious Liberty in Education: The Story behind Zobrest v. Catalina Foothills School District "
English | ISBN: 0252043200 | 2020 | 240 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
In 1988, Sandi and Larry Zobrest sued a suburban Tucson, Arizona, school district that had denied their hearing-impaired son a taxpayer-funded interpreter in his Roman Catholic high school. The Catalina Foothills School District argued that providing a public resource for a private, religious school created an unlawful crossover between church and state. The Zobrests, however, claimed that the district had infringed on both their First Amendment right to freedom of religion and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).

Understanding Disability: From Theory to Practice By Michael Oliver
2009 | 201 Pages | ISBN: 0230220282 | PDF | 2 MB
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 best-selling text includes new stories from the author's experience, as well as sharply framed debate about the development of policy over the last decade and a half. Its expansive coverage includes discussion of welfare, rehabilitation, special education and normalization.This book is core reading for students of social work, nursing, health and applied social science taking modules in disability studies. Michael Oliver was the first Professor of Disability Studies in the United Kingdom and is Emeritus Professor of Disability Studies at the University of Greenwich, UK. He is the author of the path-breaking The Politics of Disablement and Social Work with Disabled People (in its third edition, co-authored with Bob Sapey).

The Mental Retardation and Developmental Disability Treatment Planner By Arthur E. Jongsma Jr.; David J. Berghuis
2000 | 336 Pages | ISBN: 0471382531 | EPUB | 23 MB
The Mental Retardation and Developmental Disability TreatmentPlanner provides all the elements necessary to quickly andeasily develop formal treatment plans that satisfy the demands ofHMOs, managed care companies, third-party payers, and state andfederal review agencies.* Saves you hours of time-consuming paperwork, yet offers thefreedom to develop customized treatment plans for the severely andpersistently mentally ill* Organized around 28 main presenting problems, from familyconflicts to paranoia, parenting, health issues, and more* Over 1,000 clear statements describe the behavioralmanifestations of each relational problem, and includes long-termgoals, short-term objectives, and clinically tested treatmentoptions* Easy -to -use reference format helps locate treatment plancomponents by behavioral problem or DSM IV(TM) diagnosis* Includes a sample treatment plan that conforms to therequirements of most third-party payers and accrediting agencies(including JCAHO and NCQA)