Disability on Equal Terms presents an authoritative collection of writings that examine and challenge traditional notions of disability. Edited and written by leading experts in the field, the book offers a multidisciplinary approach to disability studies, incorporating perspectives from a wide range of health and social care services, as well as a distinct and unique emphasis on the personal testimonies of disabled people themselves.

Disability on Equal Terms presents an authoritative collection of writings that examine and challenge traditional notions of disability. Edited and written by leading experts in the field, the book offers a multidisciplinary approach to disability studies, incorporating perspectives from a wide range of health and social care services, as well as a distinct and unique emphasis on the personal testimonies of disabled people themselves.

Therapy is an essentially human activity that needs to be understood in terms of the relationships, processes of communication and people involved. This title supports therapists in establishing open and mutual relationships, with clients and colleagues, for shared decision making, effective working partnerships and mutual empowerment.

Disability and Child Sexual Abuse examines the ways in which society marginalises, institutionalises and places disabled children in situations of unacceptable risk, and how - as evidenced in the survivors' narratives - patterns of service delivery can contribute to the problem. Based on the accounts of seven disabled individuals who were sexually abused in childhood, the book highlights a wide range of pertinent issues. Through case vignettes and empirical research, the authors ask practitioners to scrutinise their current professional practice, exploring participants' experiences of...

"A splendid memoir...a tale, at once tragic and beautiful, of love and loss, of coming of age and of witnessing the end of Indochina as the West had known it for more than a century."Los Angleles Times Book Review. From the writer immortalized in the Academy Award-winning film The Killing Fields."

John Swain's Under the Mountain Born collects 100 poems, many of which have appeared in fine little mags and zines. Swain's images like his tenses shift. they are plastic: now ephemeral, suddenly very real and so forth. The result is a steadiness of voice, though the poems greatly vary. The man can write a sentence, i'd say. Generally speaking nature would seem to be at the fore. The star subject of his poems, though, are his thoughts which in wheeling figure-eights convey private takes-chiefly on things like consciousness, conscience, duty, guilt, rapture, protected innocence, sorrow and the...

Coyote Highway is the latest from Walla Walla poet Charles Potts. This from Beverly J. Wilcox, co-founder and editor of Least Bittern Books: "I have followed Potts- or rather, once I found him I found anything worth finding of his and read it. It was all worth finding. While his voice is loud and clear, and easily recognized- the way you know its Hendrix or Garcia or Vaughn after just a few notes- perhaps it is by way of 'tone, ' that we recognize the greats...each book is quite different from the last. In this case he addresses the wilderness, and the wild he contains by tenderly caring for...