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    Handbook of Communication and People with Disabilities: Research and Application » Read Now

    by Dawn O. Braithwaite, Teresa L. Thompson. 555 pgs.

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    ...Relationships of People With Disabilities 17...Persons With Physical Disabilities...interacting with people who have visible physical disabilities, we have...associated...
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    Cross-Cultural Rehabilitation: An International Perspective (Chap. 10 "International Classification of Impairments, Disabilities, and Handicaps: A Universial Framework") » Read Now

    by Ronnie Linda Leavitt. 393 pgs.

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    This book helps build an awareness of cultural and racial issues that are increasingly vital for today's rehabilitation professionals. This new resource explores this subject in depth, providing valuable insights from an interdisciplinary team of authors.
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    by Dale Borman Fink. 205 pgs.

    Collections: Education, Entire Library
    Dale Borman Fink, the author of the only book on inclusion of youth with special needs in after school child care, now presents the first book to examine the experiences of children with disabilities participating in youth programs alongside their typical peers. Using a case study technique, he...
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    Family Caregivers: Disability, Illness, and Ageing » Read Now

    by Hilary Schofield, Sidney Bloch, Helen Herrman, Barbara Murphy, Julie Nankervis, Bruce Singh. 342 pgs.

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    The first book to deal compassionately and objectively with a major social problem.
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    The Difference a Job Makes: The Effects of Employment among People with Disabilities, in Journal of Economic Issues » Read Now

    by Lisa Schur. 9 pgs.

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    ...effects of employment among people with disabilities by Lisa Schur...employment affect the lives of people with disabilities? While employment can have...often denied...
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    Disability and Managed Care: Problems and Opportunities at the End of the Century » Read Now

    by Arnold Birenbaum. 179 pgs.

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    Since the passage in 1990 of the Americans with Disabilities Act, society has made considerable strides in improving the quality of life and the productivity of individuals with disabilities. At the same time, however, the American health care system has undergone considerable change, with some...
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    Cultural Diversity in the Workplace: Issues and Strategies (Chap. 5 "Workers with Disabilities") » Read Now

    by George Henderson. 268 pgs.

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    All CEOs, managers, supervisors, training professionals, and educators must be able to effectively recruit, train, manage, and promote a culturally diverse work force. Unfortunately, few of them have been adequately trained to do so. Effective management of diversity is good business. It takes...
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    Disability and the Family Life Cycle » Read Now

    by Laura E. Marshak, Milton Seligman, Fran Prezant. 324 pgs.

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    The study of disability and its clinical treatment has become exponentially more complex as ever more interventions are developed that increase the life span. Consequently, developmental challenges facing people with disabilities and their families change throughout a lifetime.

    Unlike other texts...

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    Sexual Esteem, Sexual Satisfaction, and Sexual Behavior among People with Physical Disability, in Archives of Sexual Behavior » Read Now

    by Marita P. McCabe, George Taleporos, G. Dip. 11 pgs.

    Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
    ...male counterparts. For people with physical disabilities, the frequency of oral...sexual expression of people with physical disabilities. For example, reduced...Taleporos...
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    Social Support and Leisure Activities Following Severe Physical Disability: Testing the Mediating Effects of Depression, in Basic and Applied Social Psychology » Read Now

    by Timothy R. Elliott, Richard M. Shewchuk. 18 pgs.

    Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
    ...with severe physical disabilities. Measures...among persons with chronic...posits that people with supportive...debilitating physical conditions...among persons with...
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    A Contextual-Behavioral Model of Empowerment: Case Studies Involving People with Physical Disabilities, in American Journal of Community Psychology » Read Now

    by Stephen B. Fawcett, Glen W. White, Fabricio E. Balcazar, Yolanda Suarez-Balcazar, R. Mark Mathews, Adrienne Paine-Andrews, Tony Seekins, John F. Smith. 26 pgs.

    Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
    ...case studies involving people with physical disabilities by Stephen B...support. Similarly, people with physical disabilities frequently face environmental...in...
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    Stigma by Association: Perceptions of the Dating Partners of College Students with Physical Disabilities, in Basic and Applied Social Psychology » Read Now

    by Susan B. Goldstein, Vera A. Johnson. 10 pgs.

    Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
    ...relatives of people with disabilities are often...individuals with physical disabilities...attitudes toward people with disabilities". Journal...attributions about...
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    Regular Educators and Students with Physical Disabilities, in Education » Read Now

    by Delar K. Singh. 10 pgs.

    Collections: Education, Entire Library
    ...educators and students with physical disabilities. by Delar K. Singh...prepared to teach students with physical disabilities (Best, Heller, Arora...the inclusion of...
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    Women with Disabilities: Essays in Psychology, Culture, and Politics (Chap. 1 "On Embodiment: A Case Study of Congenital Limb Deficiency in American Culture") » Read Now

    by Michelle Fine, Adrienne Asch. 347 pgs.

    Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
    ...health of people with disabilities, see S...Lussier, "The Physical Handicap...with Early Physical Malformations...writing. on people with disabilities, see A...for most...
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    Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature » Read Now

    by Rosemarie Garland Thomson. 200 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    Inaugurates a new field of disability studies by framing disability as a minority discourse rather than a medical one, revising oppressive narratives and revealing liberatory ones. The book examines disabled figures in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and Rebecca Harding Davis's Life in the...

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