Funktionshinder: sociala aspekter

Hur berättar man om någon som saknar röst? När lillasyster Nadja föddes blev inget som någon hade tänkt sig. Hon kunde inte andas själv och uppvisade tecken på allvarliga hjärnskador. Det visade sig att Nadja skulle behöva assistans 24 timmar om d...

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Autism in women and girls is still not widely understood, and is often misrepresented or even overlooked. This graphic novel offers an engaging and accessible insight into the lives and minds of autistic women, using real-life case studies. The ch...

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Grassroots researchers examine the barriers and ways of implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in Africa. Many have praised the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), ...

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In The Right to Maim Jasbir K. Puar brings her pathbreaking work on the liberal state, sexuality, and biopolitics to bear on our understanding of disability. Drawing on a stunning array of theoretical and methodological frameworks, Puar uses the c...

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This is a remarkable study of how Western culture has represented blindness, especially in that most visual of arts, painting. Moshe Barasch draws upon not only the span of art history from antiquity to the eighteenth century but also the classica...

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In this thought-provoking book, Jan Walmsley and Kelley Johnson discuss participative approaches to research and provide an up-to-date account of inclusive practice with individuals with learning disabilities. Drawing on evidence from two major st...

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Active Support is a proven model of care that enables and empowers people with intellectual disabilities to participate fully in all aspects of their lives. This evidence-based approach is particularly effective for working with people with more s...

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"Att vara analfabet är som att vara stum och hörselskadad. Jag hör och ser att människor pratar men jag kan inte svara dem. Där sätter tungan stopp för mig." Nästan 13 procent av den svenska vuxna befolkningen har inte tillräckliga läsfä...

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I boken berättar Peter Brusén, tidigare enhetschef vid Socialstyrelsens handikappenhet, om hur hans liv förändrades på "tre sekunder" i samband med en semesterresa till Hawaii i maj 2000. När han bodysurfade föll han rakt genom vågen och...

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Forty-five contributions from renowned international specialists in the field provide readers with expert analysis of the core issues related to the welfare state, including regional depictions of welfare states around the globe. The second editio...

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All too often, wrote disabled architect Ronald Mace, designers dont take the needs of disabled and elderly people into account. Building Access investigates twentieth-century strategies for designing the world with disability in mind. Commonly und...

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When bioethicist and professor Ashley Shew became a self-described hard-of-hearing chemo-brained amputee with Crohns disease and tinnitus, there was no returning to normal. Suddenly well-meaning people called her an inspiration while grocery shopp...

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If you are among the 10 percent of people who happen to be left-handed, you've had to endure such derisive terms as "gauche" and "a left-handed compliment." At school you may have been forced to write with your right hand. And ...

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In dear elia Mimi Khc revolutionizes how we understand mental health. Khc traces the contemporary Asian American mental health crisis from the university into the maw of the COVID-19 pandemic, reenvisioning mental health through a pedagogy of unwe...

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A witty, winning, and revelatory personal narrative of the author’s transition from sightedness to blindness and his quest to learn about blindness as a rich culture all its own “ The Country of the Blind is about seeing—but also...

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The Handbook of Intellectual Disability and Clinical Psychology Practice will equip clinical psychologists in training with the skills necessary to complete a clinical placement in the field of intellectual disability. Building on the success of t...

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In The Invented State, Emily Thorson argues that a problematic and understudied aspect of misinformation is public misperception about what the government does. Because much of public policy is invisible to the public, there is fertile ground for ...

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'Limburg describes movingly her own struggles as a new mother and the pressure of society's expectations...Through such delicately intertwined experiences, Limburg quietly shouts for change.' Times Literary Supplement It seemed to m...

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Alla måste få en chans att lyckas! Projektet Olika avtryck har startats och genomförts mot bakgrund av insikten om att människor med olika intellektuella eller kognitiva nedsättningar och variationer idag exkluderas från sammanhang och gemenskap i...

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In What Should We Do?, Peter Levine explores how to organize individuals to act in concert, how to talk and think well about contentious matters, and how to address exclusion. In the broadest available theory of civic engagement and civic life, he...

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In the 1990s, Anne Meyer, David Rose, and their colleagues at CAST introduced universal design for learning (UDL), a framework to improve teaching and learning. Based on new insights from the learning sciences and creative uses of digital technolo...

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This handbook provides a much-needed holistic overview of disability and sexuality research and scholarship. With authors from a wide range of disciplines and representing a diversity of nationalities, it provides a multi-perspectival view that fu...

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Making Disability Modern: Design Histories brings together leading scholars from a range of disciplinary and national perspectives to examine how designed objects and spaces contributes to the meanings of ability and disability from the late 18th ...

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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 Centers nascent attempts to solve individual challenges with augmentative com...

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Parents with intellectual disabilities are seldomly heard in research about parenting. Based on the parents" own voices, this thesis contributes to deepened knowledge about parenting among persons with intellectual disability. By listening to...

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Mainstream gerontological scholarship has taken little heed of people ageing with disability, and they have also been largely overlooked by both disability and ageing policies and service systems. The Handbook on Ageing with Disability is the firs...

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From the seventeenth century to the early years of the twentieth, the population of Marthas Vineyard manifested an extremely high rate of profound hereditary deafness. In stark contrast to the experience of most Deaf people in our own society, the...

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Diagnosed with Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) in his teenage years, Harry Thompson looks back with wit and humour at the ups and downs of family and romantic relationships, school, work and mental health, as well as his teenage struggle with ...

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'A masterful intervention that is particularly pertinent for an age of austerity, pandemic, and rising living costs' Robert Chapman, author of Empire of Normality The rise of the extreme right globally, the crisis of capitalism and the w...

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Huruvida föräldrar med intellektuell funktionsnedsättning (psykisk utvecklingsstörning) klarar av sitt föräldraskap har alltid ifrågasatts. Den här boken vill visa på vikten av relationen mellan föräldrar och barn när man ska ge hjälp och stöd til...

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