Kategoria BISAC: Social Science >> People with Disabilities

Caroline wants to go to the park with her grandfather, but she needs to ask him several times before he understands what she wants.

He keeps thinking she's asking something about the "dark" or other words that rhyme with "park," but he finally gets the gist, and they set out to enjoy the day together.

As Caroline spends quality time with her grandfather, she learns all about hearing deficits, including what a hearing aid looks like, how it operates, and why it sometimes squeals when someone gets too close to it or when it's adjusted.

Caroline and Gramps even find out...

A crucial contemporary dynamic around children and young people in the Global North is the multiple ways that have emerged to monitor their development, behaviour and character. In particular disabled children or children with unusual developmental patterns can find themselves surrounded by multiple practices through which they are examined.

This rich book draws on a wide range of qualitative research to look at how disabled children have been cared for, treated and categorised. Narrative and longitudinal interviews with children and their families, along with stories and...

A mother whose child has had a cochlear implant tells Laura Mauldin why enrollment in the sign language program at her daughter s school is plummeting: The majority of parents want their kids to talk. Some parents, however, feel very differently, because curing deafness with cochlear implants is uncertain, difficult, and freighted with judgment about what is normal, acceptable, and right. "Made to Hear" sensitively and thoroughly considers the structure and culture of the systems we have built to make deaf children hear.

Based on accounts of and interviews with families who adopt the...

Is there a gene for autism? Despite a billion-dollar, twenty-year effort to find out and the more elusive the answer, the greater the search seems to become no single autism gene has been identified. In Multiple Autisms, Jennifer S. Singh sets out to discover how autism emerged as a genetic disorder and how this affects those who study autism and those who live with it. This is the first sustained analysis of the practices, politics, and meaning of autism genetics from a scientific, cultural, and social perspective.

In 2004, when Singh began her research, the prevalence of...

Is there a gene for autism? Despite a billion-dollar, twenty-year effort to find out and the more elusive the answer, the greater the search seems to become no single autism gene has been identified. In Multiple Autisms, Jennifer S. Singh sets out to discover how autism emerged as a genetic disorder and how this affects those who study autism and those who live with it. This is the first sustained analysis of the practices, politics, and meaning of autism genetics from a scientific, cultural, and social perspective.

In 2004, when Singh began her research, the prevalence of...

A mother whose child has had a cochlear implant tells Laura Mauldin why enrollment in the sign language program at her daughter s school is plummeting: The majority of parents want their kids to talk. Some parents, however, feel very differently, because curing deafness with cochlear implants is uncertain, difficult, and freighted with judgment about what is normal, acceptable, and right. "Made to Hear" sensitively and thoroughly considers the structure and culture of the systems we have built to make deaf children hear.

Based on accounts of and interviews with families who adopt the...

Since the 1970s, the international disability rights movement, the United Nations and national governments across the world have attempted to ameliorate the status of the disabled population through a range of legislative and policy measures primarily in the areas of health, education, employment, accessible environments and social security. While the discourse in the disability sector in India has shifted from charity and welfare to human rights and entitlements, disability studies - as an interdisciplinary academic terrain that focuses on the contributions, experiences, history and...

Emerging disabilities are disabling conditions that are new to medical science, often medically debated, and lacking in known etiology; or those increasing in prevalence in recent years. This master's-level text is the first to eschew traditional disabilities to focus specifically on the unique characteristics and needs of individuals with disabilities such as multiple chemical sensitivity, fibromyalgia, and Lyme disease, or those currently increasing in prevalence (e.g., diabetes, autism, PTSD), and explore their implications for rehabilitation counseling practice. The text is also unique...