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This handbook shares many years of invaluable experience, providing teachers and parents with a wealth of hands-on activities and proven techniques to stimulate learning and help students realize their full potential. ... Read more

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Disability in Twentieth-Century German Culture covers the entire scope of Germany's most tragic and tumultuous century---from the Weimar Republic to the current administration---revealing how central the notion of disability is to modern German cultural history. By examining a wide range of literary and visual depictions of disability, Carol Poore explores the contradictions of a nation renowned for its social services programs yet notorious for its history of compulsory sterilization and eugenic dogma. This comprehensive volume focuses particular attention on the horrors of the Nazi era, when those with disabilities were considered "unworthy of life," but also investigates other previously overlooked topics including the exile community's response to disability, socialism and disability in East Germany, current bioethical debates, and the rise and gains of Germany's disability rights movement.

Richly illustrated, wide-ranging, and accessible, Disability in Twentieth-Century German Culture gives all those interested in disability studies, German studies, visual culture, Nazi history, and bioethics the opportunity to explore controversial questions of individuality, normalcy, citizenship, and morality. The book concludes with a memoir of the author's experiences in Germany as a person with a disability.

Carol Poore is Professor of German Studies at Brown University.

Illustration: "Monument to the Unknown Prostheses" by Heinrich Hoerle © 2007 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

A volume in the series Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

"Insightful and meticulously researched . . . Using disability as a concept, symbol, and lived experience, the author offers valuable new insights into Germany's political, economic, social, and cultural character . . . Demonstrating the significant ‘cultural phenomena' of disability prior to and long after Hitler's reign achieves several important theoretical and practical aims . . . Highly recommended."
---Choice

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Originally published in 1989, Special Education in Context is an important and thought-provoking book. An ethnographic study of five years in the daily lives of the severely and profoundly mentally retarded residents of a state school in the United States, it was unique in its attempt to interpret their experience in their own terms and from their own perspective. Professor Gleason's findings led him to argue forcefully for a change in the approach to developmental disability. Rather than being based on the imposition of criteria such as 'normality' and focusing on the clinical characteristics of populations with special needs, as was traditionally the case, therapeutic practice is reconfigured as being thoroughly grounded in an understanding of the populations' behaviour patterns. The book redefined the concepts of deinstitutionalisation, normalisation and mainstream which guided much practice and provided an innovative framework for future investigation and practice with special populations. ... Read more

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With the passage of Public Law 94-142 in 1975, the learning disability construct gained national legitimacy. Feeding that political achievement, behind the very idea of a learning disability, was the development of a science that blended neurology, psychology, and education. This book tracks the historical creation of the science of learning disabilities, beginning with the clinical research with brain-injured World War I soldiers conducted by German physician Kurt Goldstein. It traces the growth of the two primary research traditions, the psycholinguistic theory of Samuel Kirk and the movement education of Newell Kephart, exploring how specific scientific orientations, theories, and practices led to the birth of the learning disability in the United States. ... Read more

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Disability and New Media examines how digital design is triggering disability when it could be a solution. Video and animation now play a prominent role in the World Wide Web and new types of protocols have been developed to accommodate this increasing complexity. However, as this has happened, the potential for individual users to control how the content is displayed has been diminished. Accessibility choices are often portrayed as merely technical decisions but they are highly political and betray a disturbing trend of ableist assumption that serve to exclude people with disability. It has been argued that the Internet will not be fully accessible until disability is considered a cultural identity in the same way that class, gender and sexuality are. Kent and Ellis build on this notion using more recent Web 2.0 phenomena, social networking sites, virtual worlds and file sharing.

Many of the studies on disability and the web have focused on the early web, prior to the development of social networking applications such as Facebook, YouTube and Second Life. This book discusses an array of such applications that have grown within and alongside Web 2.0, and analyzes how they both prevent and embrace the inclusion of people with disability.

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In the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, municipallaws targeting "unsightly beggars" sprang up in cities across America. Seeming to criminalize disability and thus offering a visceral example of discrimination, these “ugly laws” have become a sort of shorthand for oppression in disability studies, law, and the arts.

In this watershed study of the ugly laws, Susan M. Schweik uncovers the murky history behind the laws, situating the varied legislation in its historical context and exploring in detail what the laws meant. Illustrating how the laws join the history of the disabled and the poor, Schweik not only gives the reader a deeper understanding of the ugly laws and the cities where they were generated, she locates the laws at a crucial intersection of evolving and unstable concepts of race, nation, sex, class, and gender. Moreover, she explores the history of resistance to the ordinances, using the often harrowing life stories of those most affected by their passage. Moving to the laws' more recent history, Schweik analyzes the shifting cultural memory of the ugly laws, examining how they have been used—and misused—by academics, activists, artists, lawyers, and legislators.

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Skill is determined by ability and attitude, and people at all skill levels, with and without disabilities, can find enjoyment in canoeing and kayaking. All that paddlers need are the willingness to accept instruction and be challenged and the ability to adapt to new situations. Canoeing and Kayaking for People With Disabilities presents strategies that give people of all abilities the opportunity to discover the challenge, freedom, and renewal found in paddling.

The book, written by adaptive paddling pioneer Janet A. Zeller, will help you build on your existing knowledge of paddling techniques so you can share the sport with a variety of people with disabilities. Zeller presents best practices based on her years of experience as a paddler with a disability and the experiences of other instructors and recreation and health care professionals. The text includes tested instructional techniques and equipment adaptations as well as safety information and rescue protocols.

By focusing on each person's ability, outdoor professionals, paddling instructors, and recreation providers can learn how to make paddling available to those with disabilities. These topics are presented in the text:

• General guidelines for working with people with disabilities
• Information on legal requirements, including accessibility at facilities and launching and landing sites, program access, development of eligibility criteria, and assessment of facility accessibility
• Thorough coverage of common disabilities, their implications for instructors, and teaching strategies and adaptations for each disability
• Guidance in choosing gear and modifying or building equipment to meet the needs of paddlers with disabilities
• Consideration of safety and risk factors, rescue priorities, and adaptations for rolling
• Factors to consider when planning a trip, including the ratio of paddlers with and without disabilities, taking wheelchairs and mobility devices on the trip, and route selection

The book also includes numerous resources, checklists, and forms to assist you in running your program. Pretrip resources such as the medical information form and the Paddler's Interview will help you collect information about each paddler's medical history and discuss expectations, ability levels, and concerns. You'll also find tips on choosing trip and instruction locations, gear checklists, and an emergency response plan checklist. A glossary provides information on diseases and conditions to assist paddling instructors in developing appropriate accommodations.

Paddling provides unique opportunities for people of all abilities to overcome personal challenges, master new skills, experience the outdoors, and enjoy physical activity with fellow paddlers. Packed with information about safe adaptations, techniques, and integrated opportunities, Canoeing and Kayaking for People With Disabilities is your resource for making paddling a reality for those with disabilities. ... Read more

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Over the last thirty years, the field of disability studies has emerged from the political activism of disabled people. In this challenging review of the field, leading disability academic and activist Tom Shakespeare argues that the social model theory has reached a dead end.

Drawing on a critical realist perspective, Shakespeare promotes a pluralist, engaged and nuanced approach to disability. Key topics discussed include:

• dichotomies - the dangerous polarizations of medical model versus social model, impairment versus disability and disabled people versus non-disabled people
• identity - the drawbacks of the disability movement's emphasis on identity politics
• bioethics in disability - choices at the beginning and end of life and in the field of genetic and stem cell therapies
• care and social relationships - questions of intimacy and friendship.

This stimulating and accessible book challenges orthodoxies in British disability studies, promoting a new conceptualization of disability and fresh research agenda. It is an invaluable resource for researchers and students in disability studies and sociology, as well as professionals, policy makers and activists.

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The role of quality assessments in social policy, especially health policy, and ethical and social issues raised by prenatal testing for disability are discussed in this analysis.A theme of the literature has been the role played by controversial assumptions about the quality of life of people with disabilities. This book turns the perspectives of disability scholars to issues that have largely been the province of health methodology, policy and philosophy, while re-directing philosophical policy analysis to problems that have largely been the province of disability scholarship. ... Read more

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A Serious Look at a Problem of Our Time
With increased pre-natal genetic testing comes the knowledge to know of disabilities that the chile will face later. This book is a series of papers describing the ethical and social issues this raises. A second theme is a discussion of the quality of life for disable persons.

This book came from a working group that the editors convened. Papers were presented on the subject, and then afterwards they were revised in light of the deliberations at the conference. The contents range from the social contract under which we all live to the right of the individual woman to terminate a pregnancy for any reason what so ever (as defined by Roe v. Wade). ... Read more

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Text for practitioners, researchers, and students. Features international contributorship, chapters on epidemiology and assessment, coverage of sensory functions and distinct pathologies, and more. Softcover. ... Read more

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Hardbound. The 1994-95 Disability Supplement to the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS-D) sponsored by the US Department of Health and Human Services provided a rich resource for the quantitative studies included in this volume. Nationally representative surveys that focus on collecting more in depth information about persons with disabilities are rare, therefore these studies are unusual in the level of data they include and the important insights into disability issues that they provide. These come at a time when much more information about the experiences of disability is needed to inform policy and evaluate programmatic changes. The first paper of the volume discusses in detail the genesis and methodology of the NHIS-D.

This volume contains an exciting variety of different types of papers that add not only to our information about persons with disabilities, but also serve as a useful guide to using this extensive data set to address the numero ... Read more

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Re-Presenting Disability addresses issues surrounding disability representation in museums and galleries, a topic which is receiving much academic attention and is becoming an increasingly pressing issue for practitioners working in wide-ranging museums and related cultural organisations.

This volume of provocative and timely contributions, brings together twenty researchers, practitioners and academics from different disciplinary, institutional and cultural contexts to explore issues surrounding the cultural representation of disabled people and, more particularly, the inclusion (as well as the marked absence) of disability-related narratives in museum and gallery displays. The diverse perspectives featured in the book offer fresh ways of interrogating and understanding contemporary representational practices as well as illuminating existing, related debates concerning identity politics, social agency and organisational purposes and responsibilities, which have considerable currency within museums and museum studies.

Re-Presenting Disability explores such issues as:

• In what ways have disabled people and disability-related topics historically been represented in the collections and displays of museums and galleries? How can newly emerging representational forms and practices be viewed in relation to these historical approaches?

• How do emerging trends in museum practice – designed to counter prejudiced, stereotypical representations of disabled people – relate to broader developments in disability rights, debates in disability studies, as well as shifting interpretive practices in public history and mass media?

• What approaches can be deployed to mine and interrogate existing collections in order to investigate histories of disability and disabled people and to identify material evidence that might be marshalled to play a part in countering prejudice? What are the implications of these developments for contemporary collecting?

• How might such purposive displays be created and what dilemmas and challenges are curators, educators, designers and other actors in the exhibition-making process, likely to encounter along the way?

• How do audiences – disabled and non-disabled – respond to and engage with interpretive interventions designed to confront, undercut or reshape dominant regimes of representation that underpin and inform contemporary attitudes to disability?

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This text is a critical and empirically-based introduction to disability studies. It offers a comprehensive, book-length analysis of disability through the lens of Science and Technology Studies (STS), and presents a practice-oriented discussion of how bodies, senses and things are linked in everyday life and configure "enabling" and "disabling" scenarios. Relevant to a broad spectrum of medical practitioners and practicing social service workers, the book will also be essential reading in the fields of disability studies, sociology of the body/senses, medical sociology and STS.

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The first international, cross-disciplinary book to explore and understand the lives of parents with intellectual disabilities, their children, and the systems and services they encounter

• Presents a unique, pan-disciplinary overview of this growing field of study
• Offers a human rights approach to disability and family life
• Informed by the newly adopted UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006)
• Provides comprehensive research-based knowledge from leading figures in the field of intellectual disability

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do NOT!!!! buy this book!!
I don't know about the new editions but I attempted to use the '07 edition and I was so APPALLED at the amount and degree of errors. I have NO idea how this book was able to be published. I even called the company to be like, "Are you joking?????". Here I am trying to study for a teacher certification exam, already nervous, and the tools I have to assist me is this "study guide". I feel like this book has caused nothing but doubt in what I know and I'm seriously afraid it will affect me when taking the test. It repeats questions, it contains some form of typo in every other question, it gives a list of answers (i.e 1.A 2.D) then when you read the in-depth explanation it changes (i.e 1.A is now 1.C) OR it will say the answer is one thing but describe another (i.e the answer is A.CAT: something you drive is a car). I cannot express the dissatisfaction I have with this book. Do NOT buy this book. However, if you want a good laugh, borrow it from your local library, but be sure to tell them to take it off their shelf when you return it!!!!!

errors errors everywhere
I would not recommend you buy this book.There were so many spelling and grammar errors that it was hard to decipher what the questions were asking.Some of the answers to questions were wrong and showed contradiction, which made me very uncomfortable trusting other things this book had to say.There is also no writing section to practice or any information on doing well on this section of the exam.The only good thing I have to say is that it did show me some of the things I should study.

HORRIBLE
This Book is THE worst study guide available. Like others have stated, this is the only book available as a study guide for the CST Students with Disabilities and what a shame for all of us who rely on these books for added support and study materials. The book is filled with mistakes: grammatical errors, incorrectly marked answers and complete nonsense. I called the number in the book to ask for a refund and the young man who I spoke to was extremely rude. He told me I would have to return the book to the place I bought it from.I explained to him the mistakes in the book and he offered no excuse or apology. When I told him that Borders would not accept a return because it was obvious by the binder that the book had been fully read, and that it was not Borders fault in providing for sale it its store such a poorly edited book, he then finally offered me the address to request a refund directly from XAM itself, and then he hung up on me. Please do yourself a favor and do not waste your money on this book.

Not worth the money
Although this book does have good information, the book is filled with typographical errors. There are questions that have no answers. There are words that are so badly misspelled that you actually have to stop and try to figure out what they are talking about. There are missing words in sentences, so again you have to guess the missing words. The book is way over priced for its quality.

Bad book
This book does not help for the test. The practice test does not have any questions from the test, so it does not help at all. Bad book for the test ... Read more

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This edition continues to offer detailed coverage of the best classroom practices, the latest research, and the critical issues in the field of learning disabilities. Using the author's more than 23 years of experience in working with children and adolescents who have learning disabilities, the Fifth Edition of Learning Disabilities presents the latest research and information for every major developmental area. It focuses on both the characteristics of students with learning disabilities as well as classroom-tested instructional strategies. With up-to-date content, this practical guide also offers insight into practical educational concerns from a teacher's perspective, as well as the relevant scholarship. ... Read more

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Good Resource
This book is a good addition to any educational professional library. I found it to be quite helpful with some of the students I currently have in my class and was reminded of modifications and accommodations I have made in the past with other students. Well worth the investment.

Great overview
This was a required text for a doctorate level class and covers information very thouroughly.Because of constant changes in the field, even this 2004 copy has some outdated information, but it acknowledges areas where change seems to be coming.This is the first time I had ordered one of my texts from Amazon and decided to do so due to the price.I have always been very pleased with deliveries that rarely take more than 3 days.I ordered this on January 19 during the last few minutes of being able to have it delivered by January 22.I did not receive it until January 29.The only time anything has taken more than 3 days was when I really counted on having it sooner.If you need it as a class text, you can save money--but allow yourself plenty of time. ... Read more

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Adult Physical Disabilities: Case Studies for Learning focuses on a case-based learning approach for addressing various situations with physical disability clients or patients in occupational therapy treatment. Each case is presented along with individualized worksheets to direct the student through this case-based learning.A compilation of 35 physical disabilities case studies, this student workbook helps students develop self-directed and clinical reasoning skills for effective practice in todayíªs ever changing healthcare arena. Through this case-based approach, students learn how to learn. This workbook describes the basis of case-based approach, the tutorial group process including identifying learning issues, finding and evaluating resources, sharing and applying information to a case study problem, tutorial group member responsibilities, and group dynamics.Worksheets provide a format for the student to identify and document their current knowledge, learning issues, and learning plans as they develop an evaluation plan and document a treatment plan for patients/clients described in the various case studies. A case study example guides the student step-by-step through using the case-based learning approach and provides examples of completed worksheets. The workbook includes orthopedic, rheumatic diseases, amputations, spinal cord injuries, hand injuries, injured workers and workers at risk, strokes, brain injury, and multiple sclerosis case studies.Featuresäh Using a case study example, students and instructors are guided through step-by-step processes of participating as a tutorial group member or tutor respectively. äh Worksheets emphasize the clinical reasoning process and provide a format for solving case study problems. äh Formatted worksheets emphasize linking theory to practice in the process of developing occupational therapy treatment plans. ... Read more

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In the first comprehensive study to connect composition and learning disabilities, Patricia Dunn both challenges and confirms what many believe about writing. ... Read more