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Handbook of Communication and People with Disabilities: Research and Application (Chap. 3 "Embodiment and Dis-Embodiment: Identity Trans-Formation of Persons With Physical Disabilities")
by Dawn O. Braithwaite, Teresa L. Thompson. 555 pgs.

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Preface

Contributors

Introduction: A History of Communication and Disability Research: The Way We Were

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I: Interpersonal and Relationship Issues

1: Communication and the Management of Dialectical Tensions in the Personal Relationships of People With Disabilities

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2: Society, Sexuality, and Disabled/Ablebodied Romantic Relationships

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3: Embodiment and Dis-Embodiment: identity Trans-Formation of Persons With Physical Disabilities

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4: Help Between Persons With and Without Disabilities From a Resource Theory Perspective

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5: Opening Up Spaces for Difference Via a Feminist Phenomenological Approach to Disability

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II: People With Disabilities in Organizational Settings

6: Effective Communication to Enhance Special Education

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7: Communication and Students With Disabilities on College Campuses

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8: What Is Reasonable? Workplace Communication and People Who Are Disabled

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9: Communication Strategies in Employment Interviews for Applicants With Disabilities

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10: Disability and Culture: Effects on Multicultural Relations in Modern Organizations

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III: Disability and Culture

11: Interability Communication: Theoretical Perspectives

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12: Negotiating Personal Identities Among People With and Without Identified Disabilities: The Role of Identity Management

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13: Intercultural Views of People With Disabilities in Asia and Africa

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14: Deaf Activists in the Rhetorical Transformation of the Construct of Disability

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IV: Media and Technologies

15: If They Limp, They Lead? News Representations and the Hierarchy of Disability Images

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16: Film Images of People With Disabilities

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17: Invisible No More: Advertising and People With Disabilities

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18: The Uses and Abuses of Computer-Mediated Communication for People With Disabilities

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V: Communication Issues as They Impact Specific Types of Disabilities

19: Reducing Uncertainty Through Communication During Adjustment to Disability: Living With Spinal Cord Injury

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20: When the Deaf and the Hearing Interact: Communication Features, Relationships, and Disability Issues

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21: Sighting Sound/Sounding Sight: The "Violence" of Deaf-Hearing Communication

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22: Communication and the Blind or Visually impaired

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23: Invisible Disability

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24: Communicating With Persons Who Stutter: Perceptions and Strategies

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25: Children and Adults Who Experience Difficulty With Speech

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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26: Overcoming Loss of Voice

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27: Interpersonal Roulette and HIV/AIDS as Disability: Stigma and Social Support in Tension

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28: The Margins of Communication: Coping With Adult Dementia

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VI: Setting a Future Agenda for Communication and Disability Research

29: Communication and Disability Research: A Productive Past and a Bright Future

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Cross-Cultural Rehabilitation: An International Perspective (Chap. 10 "International Classification of Impairments, Disabilities, and Handicaps: A Universial Framework")
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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Cross-Cultural Rehabilitation: An International Perspective

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Contributors

Preface

Acknowledgments

1: Introduction to Cross-Cultural Rehabilitation: an International Perspective

Section 1: The Theoretical Basis for Developing Cultural Competence

2: The Concept of Culture

3: Appearances' of Disability, Discrimination and the Transformation of Rehabilitation Service Practices

4: Health Beliefs and Behavior Towards Individuals with Disability Cross-Culturally

5: Some Influences of Religions on Attitudes Towards Disabilities and People with Disabilities

6: Poverty and Health: an International Overview

7: Understanding Racial Prejudice, Discrimination and Racism and Their Influence on Health Care Delivery

8: Cross-Cultural Communication

Section 2: Professional Issues

9: The Development of Rehabilitation Services and Community Based Rehabilitation

10: International Classification of Impairments, Disabilities and Handicaps (icidh): a Universal Framework

11: Appropriate Assistive Technology

12: Epidemiological Considerations in the Assessment of Disability

13: The Collaborative Learning Approach in Community Based Rehabilitation

14: Cross-Cultural Supervision of Students

Section 3: The Practice of Rehabilitation in Cross-Cultural and International Environments: Case Examples

15: Community Based Rehabilitation with Indigenous Peoples: a Case Description from Guyana

16: Development of Community Rehabilitation in Nicaragua: Training People with Disabilities to Be Trainers

17: Problems with Community Mobilization and Participation in Cbr: a Case from Botswana

18: The Sociopolitical Context of Cbr Developments in South Africa

19: Intensive Treatment and Problem Solving to Enhance Rehabilitation Potential in Mexico

20: A Cross-Cultural Immersion in Post‐ Communist Romania

21: Cultural and Environmental Factors in the Delivery of Rehabilitation Services to American Indians

22: Culture and Its Impact on the Rehabilitation Program: a Palestinian Perspective

23: Upgrading Physical Therapy Education in Vietnam

24: Appropriate Prosthetics and Orthotics in Less Developed Countries

25: Paper Technology and Community Based Rehabilitation: Cultural Adaptation in Zimbabwe

Section 4: Cross-Cultural Research

26: Health Beliefs and Behaviors of Families with Children Who Are Disabled in Rural Jamaica

27: Barriers to Successful Community Based Rehabilitation in Jamaica

28: Impact of the Harare Parents' Groups for Children with a Disability and Their Parents: Are Caregivers Satisfied with the Service?

29: Cross-Cultural Parent Education and Early Intervention: Cuban and African-American Families in Miami, Florida, Usa

30: Professional Development, Personality and Self-Esteem of Palestinian Physical Therapists

Section 5: The Practice of Cultural Competence in the 21st Century

31: Towards a Public Health Perspective on Rehabilitation

32: Moving Rehabilitation Professionals Toward Cultural Competence: Strategies for Change

Appendices to Chapter 32

Appendix A: Core-Curriculum Guidelines on Culturally Sensitive and Competent Health Care

Appendix B: Resources for Multicultural Training Exercises

Appendix C: Resources for Additional Information on Culture

Appendix D: Culture-Specific Health Related Resources

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Managing Special Needs in the Primary School (Chap. 7 "Physical Disabilities")
by Joan Dean. 202 pgs.

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Written with the needs of primary school teachers and heads in mind, this book addresses the implications which the Code of Practice has for primary schools, focusing in particular on issues from the management point of view.

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Chapter 1: The Current Situation

Chapter 2: The Whole School Approach

Chapter 3: Identifying and Assessing Children with Special Needs

Chapter 4: The Organisation of Special Needs

Chapter 5: Children with Learning Difficulties

Chapter 6: Emotional and Behavioural Problems

Chapter 7: Physical Disabilities

Chapter 8: The Exceptionally Able Child

Chapter 9: Working with Parents

Chapter 10: Support Services

Chapter 11: Staff Development

Chapter 12: Evaluation

Chapter 13: Conclusion

Appendix 1

Tests Available to Teachers

References

Index
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Commonsense Methods for Children with Special Needs: Strategies for the Regular Classroom (Chap. 3 "Students with Physical Disabilities and Sensory Impairments")
by Peter Westwood. 247 pgs.

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Praise for previous editions:'This is an excellent book which, while utilising modern methods of teaching, legitimises a sequential and commonsense approach to special education in ordinary classrooms.' - Australian Journal of Reading'The 3rd edition was chosen by primary teachers as one of the most influential books on special needs.' - Garner and Robinson (2000): British Journal of Special EducationThis book provides teachers with an immediate and comprehensive source of practical strategies for meeting children's special needs in regular classrooms.This fully revised and updated fourth edition includes expanded chapters on learning difficulties, effective instruction, behaviour management, self-regulation, the teaching of literacy and numeracy skills, and differentiation across the curriculum. In addition, the book includes new chapters on the learning characteristics and specific needs of students with intellectual, physical or sensory disabilities. In all cases the practical advice the author gives is embedded within a clear theoretical context supported by current research and classroom practice.This book is essential reading for practising teachers and student teachers worldwide.

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Introduction

Chapter 1: Special Educational Needs, Learning Difficulties, and Effective Instruction

Further Reading

Chapter 2: Students with Intellectual Disability and Autism

Chapter 3: Students with Physical Disabilities and Sensory Impairments

Chapter 4: Teaching Children Self-Management and Self-Regulation

Chapter 5: The Management of Behaviour

Chapter 6: Improving Social Skills and Peer Group Acceptance

Chapter 7: Developing Early Literacy Skills: Principles and Practices

Chapter 8: Planning Effective Intervention for Literacy Problems

Chapter 9: Strategies for Overcoming or Preventing Reading Difficulties

Chapter 10: Helping Students Improve Their Writing Skills

Chapter 11: Developing Spelling Skills

Further Reading

Chapter 12: Developing Numeracy and Math Problem-Solving Skills

Chapter 13: Adapting Curriculum and Instruction

Further Reading

References

Index
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Everybody Belongs: Changing Negative Attitudes toward Classmates with Disabilities
by Arthur Shapiro. 558 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Chapter One: Why Change Attitudes?

Chapter Two: Issues of Language and Terminology

Chapter Three: The Minority Group and Medical Model Paradigms

Chapter Four: Early Attitudes and Their Legacies

Chapter Five: Disabilities and Common Sense Approaches

Chapter Six: Critical Educational Practices for Changing Negative Attitudes

Some Final Thoughts about This Book

Appendix One

Bibliography

Index
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Handbook of Positive Psychology (Chap. 50 "Positive Growth Following Acquired Physical Disability")
by C. R. Snyder, Shane J. Lopez. 829 pgs.

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Psychology has long been enamored of the dark side of human existence, rarely exploring a more positive view of the mind. What has psychology contributed, for example, to our understanding of the various human virtues? Regrettably, not much. The last decade, however, has witnessed a growing movement to abandon the exclusive focus on the negative. Psychologists from several subdisciplines are now asking an intriguing question: "What strengths does a person employ to deal effectively with life?" The Handbook of Positive Psychology provides a forum for a more positive view of the human condition. In its pages, readers are treated to an analysis of what the foremost experts believe to be the fundamental strengths of humankind. Both seasoned professionals and students just entering the field are eager to grasp the power and vitality of the human spirit as it faces a multitude of life challenges. The Handbook is the first systematic attempt to bring together leading scholars to give voice to the emerging field of positive psychology.

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Preface

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Contributors

I: Introductory and Historical Overview

1: Positive Psychology, Positive Prevention, and Positive Therapy

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II: Identifying Strengths

2: Positive Psychology and the Deconstruction of the Illness Ideology and the Dsm

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3: A Case for Including Human Strengths and Environmental Resources

Note

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4: Positive Directions in Diagnosis and Interventions

Notes

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III: Emotion-Focused Approaches

5: The Science of Happiness and Life Satisfaction

Appendix

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6: Resilience in Development

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7: The Concept of Flow

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8: The Disposition to Experience Pleasurable Emotional States

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9: Positive Emotions

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10: The Social Construction of Self-Esteem

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11: The Adaptive Potential of Coping Through Emotional Approach

Notes

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12: The Positive Psychology of Emotional Intelligence

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13: Toward “spiritualizing the Passions”

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IV: Cognitive-Focused Approaches

14: Creativity

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15: The Role of Personal Control in Adaptive Functioning

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16: Mindfulness Versus Positive Evaluation

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17: Optimism

Appendix

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18: Optimistic Explanatory Style

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19: A Member of the Positive Psychology Family

Appendix a the Trait Hope Scale

Appendix B the State Hope Scale

Appendix C the Children's Hope Scale

Notes

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20: The Power of Believing You Can

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21: Problem-Solving Appraisal and Psychological Adjustment

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22: Setting Goals for Life and Happiness

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23: A Developmental Perspective

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24: Its Structure and Function in Regulating Successful Life Span Development

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V: Self-Based Approaches

25: Reality Negotiation

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26: Authenticity and Positivity in Social Relationships

Notes

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27: Authenticity

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28: Uniqueness Seeking

Appendix a the Need for Uniqueness (nu) Scale

Appendix B the Self Attributed Need for Uniqueness (sanu) Scale

Appendix C the Desire for Unique Consumer Products (ducp) Scale

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29: Humility

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VI: Interpersonal Approaches

30: The Role of Minding in the Enhancement of Closeness

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31: Compassion

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32: The Psychology of Forgiveness

Appendix Transgression-Related Interpersonal Motivations Scale— 12-Itemform (trim-12)

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33: Gratitude and the Science of Positive Psychology

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34: Love

Appendix Love Attitudes Scale— Short Form

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35: Empathy and Altruism

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36: The Sources of Moral Motivation

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VII: Biological Approaches

37: Toughness

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38: A Role for Neuropsychology in Understanding the Facilitating Influence of Positive Affect on Social Behavior and Cognitive Processes

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39: Integrative Science in Pursuit of Human Health and Well-Being

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40: Toward a Biology of Social Support

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VIII: Specific Coping Approaches

41: On the Benefits of Writing or Talking About Emotional Experience

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42: Benefit-Finding and Benefit-Reminding

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43: Perceiving Benefits and Growth

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44: The Pursuit of Meaningfulness in Life

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45: Humor

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46: Meditation and Positive Psychology

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47: Discovering and Conserving the Sacred

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IX: Special Populations and Settings

48: Development, Prevention, and Promotion

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49: Outlook for the 21st Century

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50: Positive Growth Following Acquired Physical Disability

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51: Putting Positive Psychology in a Multicultural Context

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52: Positive Psychology at Work

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X: The Future of the Field

53: Positive Ethics

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54: Constructivism and Positive Psychology

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55: A Declaration of Independence

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Author Index

Subject Index
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Cultural Diversity in the Workplace: Issues and Strategies (Chap. 5 "Workers with Disabilities")
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 effective communication, conflict resolution, and the creation of an inclusive organizational culture to succeed. This comprehensive book helps administrators better understand the problems they face--and how to deal with them--by dispelling the myths and facing the realities of cultural diversity.

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Copyright Acknowledgments

Contents

Tables and Figures

Preface

Acknowledgments

Part One People

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Ethnic Minorities

Chapter 3 Women

Chapter 5 Workers with Disabilities

Chapter 6 Foreign Workers

Part Two Workplace Issues And Interventions

Chapter 7 Barriers to Cultural Diversity

Chapter 8 Communication In Organizations

Chapter 9 Words That Hurt

Chapter 10 Cross-Cultural Conflict

Appendix

References

Index

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Disability and the Family Life Cycle
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, which concentrate only on the childhood years, Disability and the Family Life Cycle covers the entire life span within the family context, emphasizing maturational issues, with each chapter focusing on a different period of life. Disability and the Family Life-Cycle is the only book to cover such topics as adult sons and daughters with disabilities, the developmental needs of the disabled elderly, and the needs of spouses and siblings.

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Preface

Chapter 1 Families Coping with Disability: Foundational and Conceptual Issues

Conclusion

Chapter 2 Infancy and Early Childhood

Conclusion

Chapter 3 School-Age Years

Conclusion

Chapter 4 Adolescence: Individuation and Separation in the Context of Disability

Chapter 5 the Bridge Between Adolescence and Adulthood

Conclusion

Chapter 6 Adult Children with Disabilities

Conclusion

Chapter 7 Sons and Daughters in Old Age

Chapter 8 Therapeutic Interventions for Families Coping with Disability

Conclusion

References

Index
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Improving the Quality of Library Services for Students with Disabilities
by Peter Hernon, Philip Calvert. 234 pgs.

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Illustrations

Preface

1: Students with Disabilities in Higher Education,

2: Context,

3: Legal Context within the United States,

4: An Increasingly Diverse Student Population

5: Disability Support Services, Victoria University of Wellington,

6: Perspective of Library Directors

7: Literature Review,

8: Developing and Testing an Instrument

9: Refinement of the Data Collection Instrument,

10: Conducting Your Own Study,

11: Reporting and Using the Results,

12: Continuing to Improve Service Quality for Students,

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Editors and Contributors
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Understanding Disability: Inclusion, Access, Diversity, and Civil Rights
by Paul T. Jaeger, Cynthia Ann Bowman. 168 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Goals of This Book

1: The Roles of Disability in Society

2: Social Classifications of and Reactions to Disability

3: Disability Discrimination and the Evolution of Civil Rights in Democratic Societies

4: Trying to Come to America

5: Physical Access, Intellectual Access, and Access in Society

6: Access and Classifications of Disability in Legal Discourse

7: Accessibility and Technology in Application

8: The Social Significance of the Representation of Disability

9: Representations of Disability across Media

10: "Nothing about Us without Us"

11: Future Social Issues for Persons with Disabilities

12: Disability Culture in a Nondisabled Society

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Index
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Special Teaching in Higher Education: Successful Strategies for Access and Inclusion (Part Three: "Visual and Auditory Impairments: Physical Disability")
by Stuart Powell. 224 pgs.

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The British Special Educational Needs and Disability Act (SENDA, September 2002) will have a major impact on Higher Education and Further Education provisions. This essential book addresses the learning needs of impaired and disabled students. It suggests effective responses for those designing and delivering the curriculum, discusses flexible teaching strategies and distinctive modes of learning, and gives expert insights into how individuals may learn in special ways. Leading contributors cover the whole student experience, from academic learning to social dimensions. The book is not exclusively concerned with the SENDA; it shows how to look beyond any particular impairment to the potential of the student to learn to think with clarity and critical awareness within their chosen discipline. Key contents: * from exclusion to inclusion: the context; * visual, auditory and physical impairments; * specific learning issues (including dyslexia, autism and Asperger's syndrome); * mental health issues; * issues for pedagogy and practical guidance.

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Preface

List of Abbreviations

Part One: Introduction

1: Special Teaching in Higher Education

Part Two: The Context for Change

2: From Exclusion to Inclusion: Some Lessons from Abroad

3: Communications and Information Technology (C&it) for Disabled Students

Part Three: Visual and Auditory Impairments: Physical Disability

4: Supporting Deaf Students in Higher Education

5: Students with Visual Impairment

6: Able Student, Disabled Person: Access to Courses in Higher Education by Students with Physical Disabilities

7: Issues for Pedagogy (1)

Part Four: Specific Learning Issues

8: Students with Dyslexia and Other Specif IC Learning Difficulties

9: Overseas Learners of English in Higher Education

10: Students with Autism and Asperger's Syndrome

11: Issues for Pedagogy (2)

Part Five: Mental Health Issues

12: Students with Schizophrenia in Higher Education

13: Psychiatrically Vulnerable Students: Stress, Emotional Disturbance

14: Issues for Pedagogy (3)

Afterword

Index
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Psychology of Disability
by Carolyn L. Vash, Nancy M. Crewe,. 334 pgs.

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Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1: The Person

2: The World

3: Surviving

4: Loving

5: Pairing

6: Working

7: Playing

8: Transcending

9: The Long Arm of the Law

10: Individual Differences

11: Psychogogic Approaches

12: Peer Counseling and Related Services

13: Psychotherapeutic Approaches

14: Looking Ahead

References

Index
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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")
by Michelle Fine, Adrienne Asch. 347 pgs.

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Foreword

Foreword

Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction: Beyond Pedestals

Notes

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I: Bodies and Images

Notes

1. on Embodiment: A Case Study of Congenital LImb Deficiency in American Culture

Notes

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2.Sex Roles and Culture: Social and Personal Reactions to Breast Cancer

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3. in Search of A Heroine: Images of Women with Disabilities in Fiction and Drama

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Ii: Disabled Women in Relationships

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4. the Construction of Gender and Disability in Early Attachment

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5. Daughters with Disabilities: Defective Women Or Minority Women?

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6. Friendship and Fairness: How Disability Affects Friendship Between Women

Notes

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7. Disability and Ethnicity in Conflict: A Study in Transformation

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8. Never-Married Old Women and Disability: A Majority Experience

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Iii:Policy and Politics

9. Women, Work, and Disability: Opportunities and Challenges

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10. Disabled Women and Public Policies for Income Support

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11. Autonomy as A Different Voice: Women, Disabilities, and Decisions

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12. Shared Dreams: A Left Perspective on Disability Rights and Reproductive Rights

Notes

13. Smashing ICons: Disabled Women and the Disability and Women's Movements

Notes

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Epilogue: Research and Politics to Come

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