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Augmentative and Alternative Communication and Severe Disabilities : Beyond Poverty
Alant
Paperback - $133.95
Communities and countries who are not affluent or economically and socially disadvantaged present their own set of intervention circumstances that need to be taken into account when planning intervention for people with disabilities particularly thos ...
Disability Studies Today
Colin Barnes
Paperback - $57.95
Over recent years there has been an unprecedented upsurge of interest in the general area of disability and disability studies amongst academics and researchers throughout the world. This has generated an increasingly expansive literature, from a var ...
Dancing Without Music : Deafness in America
Beryl Lieff Benderly
Paperback - $36.95
More than a decade ago, Beryl Lieff Benderly wrote in Dancing Without Music about two burning issues of the Deaf community: oralism versus American Sign Language, and the rights of Deaf people. Now, her masterful book is available again. With scienti ...
Deaf World : A Historical Reader and Primary Sourcebook
Lois Bragg
Hardcover - $143.95
To many who hear, the deaf world is as foreign as a country never visited.
Deaf World thus concerns itself less with the perspectives of the hearing and more with what Deaf people themselves think and do. Editor Lois Bragg asserts that English is f ...
Damned for Their Difference : The Cultural Construction of Deaf People as Disabled
Jan Branson
Paperback - $76.95
Damned for Their Difference offers a well-founded explanation of how Deaf people became classified disparagingly worldwide as "disabled," through a discursive exploration of the cultural, social, and historical contexts of these attitudes and behavio ...
The Critical Limits of Embodiment : Reflections on Disability Criticism
Carol A. Breckenridge
Paperback - $29.95
Disability studies, a new field of inquiry in the human sciences, has the potential to unsettle many basic assumptions about the body, citizenship, capital, and beauty. This special issue of Public Culture explores disability criticism, an emergent s ...
Know That . . . : Quotes from Deaf Women for a Positive Life
Tina Jo Breindel
Hardcover - $10.95
Inspirational quotes for embracing life from the wisdom of deaf women.
Zip Zip My Brain Harts
Angela Buckland
Paperback - $44.95
Written by researchers concerned with disability issues and supplemented with photography from the mother of a disabled child, this sensitive collaboration is a unique expression of the fullness of human experience, with all its joy, pain, and confus ...