How can health and social care services better serve people with disabilities? How can we meaningfully challenge ableist practice? What would a truly inclusive system look like? Georgia Vine answers these questions and more as she charts her journey from her experience of children's services to occupational therapist and disability activist. ......
A new edition of the textbook of choice for courses on disability and the essential resource for researchers and policy makers. Children with Disabilities is a definitive compendium of field knowledge, bringing together contributions from established experts and emerging voices.
This bold book goes against the grain of normalization and promotes a political framework for a more just world.
In Feminist, Queer, Crip Alison Kafer imagines a different future for disability and disabled bodies. Challenging the ways in which ideas about the future and time have been deployed in the service of compulsory ......
What if disability isnt a problem but a resource? This updated edition of a classic text in the field of disability studies interrogates the commonly held view that disability is something that needs to be cured or eradicated.
Jasbir K. Puar continues her pathbreaking work on the liberal state, sexuality, and biopolitics to theorize the production of disability, using Israels occupation of Palestine as an example of how settler colonial states rely on liberal frameworks of disability to maintain control of bodies and populations.
Aims to systematize the job development process by sharing replicable processes for transition-aged youth and adults with significant support needs and illustrating several urban and rural approaches to creative employment that blend funding streams, utilize SSA Work Incentives, and capitalize on the hidden jobs in small neighborhood companies.
How to Prepare for Every Stage of Your Child's Life
Written with compassion and expertise, this book provides families with a guide to planning for the lifetime needs of a child with disabilities. It presents the 'Five Factors' readers need to consider - family and support, emotional, financial, legal, and government benefits - and how to plan for these factors at every stage of a child's life.
In churches today, those on the autism spectrum are often at best overlooked by neurotypical church members or at worst infantilized. Viewed as "other," autistic people who feel excluded from the church community abound, and statistics show that they are less likely to attend church than others. Other autistic people do participate in worship but ......
How to Make Behaving Positively Possible for People with Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities
Bo Hejlskov Elv+¬n is a Clinical Psychologist based in Sweden. He is an independent consultant and lecturer on autism and challenging behaviour, and an accredited Studio III trainer. In 2009, he was awarded the Puzzle Piece of the Year prize by the Swedish Autism Society for his lecturing and counselling on challenging behaviour.
