Disability Studies - Sociology

The provision of assistive technology is an important individual and collective service of the welfare state. The state plays a significant role towards linking users and products and the matching of devices and users is both a science and an art. However, many people feel it is stigmatising to use ..

This book explores how disabled people’s right to life is understood in different national contexts and the ways in which they are – or are not – afforded protection under the law, emphasizing the social, cultural and historical forces and circumstances which have promoted disabled people’s right to..

First published in 1989, this book is about integrating or mainstreaming policies, looking specifically at how to improve circumstances for schoolchildren with disabilities or handicaps, and their teachers. Although written at the end of the 1980s, this book discusses topics that are still relevant ..

Feminist Perspectives on Disability provides a much needed synthesis of the ideas in two high profile fields, feminism and disability studies. It is written by an experienced researcher and teacher and will not only prove a valuable addition to the series but will also make an important contribution..

Feminist Perspectives on Disability provides a much needed synthesis of the ideas in two high profile fields, feminism and disability studies. It is written by an experienced researcher and teacher and will not only prove a valuable addition to the series but will also make an important contribution..

The purpose of this book is to challenge people to rethink the way western society thinks about hearing disability and the way it seeks to 'include them’. With stigma and marginalisation being the two most critical issues impacting on people with hearing disability, Hogan and Phillips document both ..

First published in 1981, this book was written to help parents and teachers to participate in child-based mobility programmes, covering the needs of visually-handicapped children from pre-school to adulthood. It gives insight into ways in which these figures can make the world meaningful to young ch..

First published in 1981, this book was written to help parents and teachers to participate in child-based mobility programmes, covering the needs of visually-handicapped children from pre-school to adulthood. It gives insight into ways in which these figures can make the world meaningful to young ch..

_x005F_x000D_ This work analyses disability and institutional violence through an interdisciplinary approach that draws from legal studies, disability studies, and critical social and psychological theory...

First published in 1975, this book looks at the place of children with handicaps in society. The separation between handicapped people and the community was still a challenge at that time and here, a strong range of contributors discuss approaches to the problem focusing on education, employment, an..

First published in 1975, this book looks at the place of children with handicaps in society. The separation between handicapped people and the community was still a challenge at that time and here, a strong range of contributors discuss approaches to the problem focusing on education, employment, an..

This book examines the autonomy/paternalism debate regarding the sexuality of adults with intellectual disability living in the parental home and focuses on the dilemmas faced by parents regarding whether and when they should restrict the freedom of their sons and daughters with intellectual disabil..