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  • Factors in Studying Employment for Persons with Disability

    How the Picture can Change

    Edited by Barbara Altman ...
    Series Book 10 - Research in Social Science and Disability
    The current literature regarding employment among persons with disabilities produces research results dependent on definitions of work disability, the discipline within which research takes places, the model or paradigm of disability in which the research is framed, the methodology and measures used and the cultural context in which employment occurs.This volume seeks to address those factors ... Read more

    $126.99 USD

  • Environmental Contexts and Disability

    Edited by Sharon N. Barnartt, Barbara Altman ...
    Series Book 8 - Research in Social Science and Disability
    Physical structure, economic expectation or social relationship norms developed within various cultures can either restrict or support the participation of individuals with disabilities in society. The influence of environmental factors can vary significantly according to context, characteristics or by action difficulty. The objective of this volume is to identify and address environmental issues ... Read more

    $147.99 USD

  • Disability and Intersecting Statuses

    Edited by Sharon N. Barnartt, Barbara Altman ...
    Series Book 7 - Research in Social Science and Disability
    Disability can be either an ascribed status or an achieved status and its combination with other statuses will affect the person's social experiences. The term intersectionality has been used most often to discuss the ways in which the dual and simultaneous statuses of 'black' and "female' exist as facets of social structure and culture, interact in both those spheres, and affect individuals in ... Read more

    $147.99 USD

  • International Measurement of Disability

    Purpose, Method and Application

    Edited by Barbara M. Altman ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume provides an informed review of the accomplishments of the Washington Group on Disability Statistics (WG) in the provision of international data and statistics on disability. It does so within the context of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The volume includes a description of the development and testing of a short set of questions for Censuses, now used in ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

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  • Negotiating Disability

    Disclosure and Higher Education

    by Stephanie L. Kerschbaum, Laura T. Eisenman, James M. Jones ...
    Series series Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability
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  • The Child with Spina Bifida

    by Elizabeth M. Anderson, Bernie Spain ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Children and Disability
    First published in 1977, this book focuses on the disability of spina bifida in children. Children with the condition frequently suffer with severe physical handicaps such as lower limb paralysis and incontinence, as well as intellectual impairment. It can be difficult for the families of these multiply handicapped children and they often require the help of professionals from many disciplines. In ... Read more

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  • The Story of My Life: With Her Letters (1887-1901) and a Supplementary Account of Her Education

    by Helen Keller ...
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    Fifty Resilient Students Speak

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    Over the course of ten years, this extensive qualitative study focused on the academic resilience phenomenon. The research delves into the educational resilience experiences of fifty low socioeconomic students of color from a variety of racial and ethnic backgrounds. In addition to chronicling specific protective factors and processes active in the students' lives, several symbiotic relationships ... Read more

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