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  • Digital Disability

    The Social Construction of Disability in New Media

    Media representation of and for the disabled has been recharged in recent years with the expansion of new media worldwide. Interactive digital communications—such as the Internet, new varieties of voice and text telephones, and digital broadcasting—have created a need for a more innovative understanding of new media and disability issues. This engaging analysis offers a global perspective on how ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Disability Pendulum

    The First Decade of the Americans With Disabilities Act

    by Ruth Colker ...
    Series Book 39 - Critical America
    Signed into law in July 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) became effective two years later, and court decisions about the law began to multiply in the middle of the decade. In The Disability Pendulum, Ruth Colker presents the first legislative history of the enactment of the ADA in Congress and analyzes the first decade of judicial decisions under the act. She assesses the success ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Disabled Children and the Law

    Research and Good Practice Second Edition

    Now in its completely updated second edition, this accessible guide provides essential information about how the law can be used to promote good practice and policy development for disabled children and young people.The authors take an anti-discriminatory and inclusive approach that involves parents and children in decision-making and advocacy. They summarise recent research on common needs and ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Disability Harassment

    by Mark C. Weber ...
    Building on the insights of both disability studies and civil rights scholars, Mark C. Weber frames his examination of disability harassment on the premise that disabled people are members of a minority group that must negotiate an artificial yet often damaging environment of physical and attitudinal barriers. The book considers courts’ approaches to the problem of disability harassment, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Parental Learning Disability and Children's Needs

    Family Experiences and Effective Practice

    Parental Learning Disability and Children's Needs explores how to effectively assess children in families where one or more parent has a learning disability. These children often have unmet needs because their parents are more likely to be coping with mental and physical illness, domestic violence or substance abuse.The book examines current social care practice in this area, whether it is working ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Multiple Sclerosis

    Your Legal Rights

    This extensively revised third edition continues to provide reliable basic information and possible solutions to the legal problems that often affect people with multiple sclerosis (MS).In the past seven years, since the publication of the last edition, significant legislative changes have taken place that affect the lives of anyone living with MS. Trying to decipher new laws can be overwhelming, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Win Your Social Security Disability Case

    Advance Your SSD Claim and Receive the Benefits You Deserve

    Win Your Social Security Disability Case provides step-by-step information to successfully obtain and keep receiving Social Security Disability benefits. All the necessary forms and sample letters required to appeal an unfavorable decision will be provided, along with over 30 medical questionnaires that will assist the treating doctor to establish that his or her patient is disabled.Topics to be ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Community Care Practice and the Law

    Fourth Edition

    This fourth edition of Community Care Practice and the Law has been fully updated to reflect the rapid and continuing legal, policy and practice changes affecting community care.It provides comprehensive and jargon-free explanations of community care legislation, as well as other areas of law directly relevant to practitioners, including the NHS, disabled facilities grants and housing adaptations, ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults and the Law

    The protection of vulnerable adults is a fast emerging area of work for local authorities, the NHS and other agencies. Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults and the Law, sets this within a comprehensive legal framework. The relevant law and guidance is extensive. It includes Department of Health guidance (No Secrets), human rights, the regulation of health and social care providers, the barring of carers ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • When is Separate Unequal?

    A Disability Perspective

    by Ruth Colker ...
    Series series Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series
    This book does not start from the premise that separate is inherently unequal. Writing from an 'anti-subordination perspective', Professor Colker provides a framework for the courts and society to consider what programs or policies are most likely to lead to substantive equality for individuals with disabilities. In some contexts, she argues for more tolerance of disability-specific programs and, ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Escaping Stigma And Neglect: People With Disabilities In Sierra Leone

    People with disabilities in Sierra Leone are disadvantaged in regards to their access to social services and the economic opportunities available to them. Oftentimes, they are marginalized and their rights are ignored. The government of Sierra Leone is taking measures to improve the social and economic situation of people with disabilities in the country. The objective of this note on people with ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Quick Guide to Community Care Practice and the Law

    Series series Quick Guides Social & Health Care Law & Practice
    This short guide cuts through the confusing mass of legislation to provide a concise and jargon-free explanation of current community care practice and the law.In clear and simple language, it explains the legislation directly relevant to practitioners, including: rules about how people in need get an assessment from local authorities; the assessment of need itself; eligibility for actually ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Legal Rights of Students with Disabilities

    International Perspectives

    Since 1948 when the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, all students have been declared the right to education. The rights of disabled students have not been explicitly addressed, however, and each country has developed their own rules and regulations. Although similarities exist among the different countries, differences are evident, especially in both the extent and ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • Ethics, Law, and Policy

    Series series The SAGE Reference Series on Disability: Key Issues and Future Directions
    The SAGE Reference Series on Disability is a cross-disciplinary and issues-based series, which examines topics central to the lives of individuals with disabilities and their families. With a balance of history, theory, research, and application, specialists set out the findings and implications of research and practice for others whose current or future work involves the care and/or study of ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • The Future of Disability Law in India

    A Critical Analysis of the Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act 1995

    by Jayna Kothari ...
    According to some estimates, there are around 20 to 60 million people with disability in India. For long this invisible minority went without any kind of protection or even legislation aimed at recognizing their basic rights. It was only in 1995 that the government passed the Persons with Disabilities (PWD) Act, which addressed the issues of non-discrimination, right to equal opportunity, and ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Words Made Flesh

    Nineteenth-Century Deaf Education and the Growth of Deaf Culture

    Series Book 4 - The History of Disability
    During the early nineteenth century, schools for the deaf appeared in the United States for the first time. These schools were committed to the use of the sign language to educate deaf students. Manual education made the growth of the deaf community possible, for it gathered deaf people together in sizable numbers for the first time in American history. It also fueled the emergence of Deaf culture ... Read more

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  • Blackstone's Guide to the Equality Act 2010

    Series series Blackstone's Guides
    The Equality Act 2010 was an extremely significant reform of UK discrimination law, consolidating the existing complex mass of statutory provisions into one statute. The Act brought new rights against discrimination and imposed new duties on employers, service providers and public authorities, and also introduced a new socio-economic duty on public authorities to reduce the inequalities of outcome ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • The Complete Guide to Veterans' Benefits: Everything You Need to Know Explained Simply

    by Bruce Brown ...
    Retiring or being discharged from the military is one of the most trying times for service members. You must leave your military life and training to venture once more into the civilian life, transition into a civilian career, and navigate the waters of life without the military. But the good news is, you don’t have to do it alone. As a veteran of the U.S. military, you are entitled to multiple ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mental Disability and the Death Penalty

    The Shame of the States

    There is no question that the death penalty is disproportionately imposed in cases involving defendants with mental disabilities. There is clear, systemic bias at all stages of the prosecution and the sentencing process – in determining who is competent to be executed, in the assessment of mitigation evidence, in the ways that counsel is assigned, in the ways that jury determinations are often ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Disabled Education

    A Critical Analysis of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act

    by Ruth Colker ...
    “For the first time, this book tells the stories of the families who set key precedents for children with special needs. It also gives a novel and in-depth description of the political and legislative process of the landmark Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. In so doing, Colker offers an unprecedented historical account of this law, while also offering a timely critique and suggestions ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Mental Disability, Violence, and Future Dangerousness

    Myths Behind the Presumption of Guilt

    When horrific acts of violence take place, events such as massacres in Boston, Newtown, CT, and Aurora, CO, people want answers. Who would commit such a thoughtless act of violence? What in their backgrounds could make them so inhumane, cruel, and evil? Often, people assume immediately that the perpetrator must have a mental disorder, and in some cases that does prove to be the case. But the ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Social Security Disability Law

    Applying for Social Security disability benefits can be an overwhelming experience. For those who have never been exposed to the system, it can be confusing and discouraging, exactly what you don’t need when you are getting used to being disabled, or having a child or spouse who is disabled. If that describes you, then this eBook is for you.Lawyers who are used to handling claims against insurance ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Human Rights and Disability Advocacy

    Series series Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
    The United Nations adoption of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) constituted a paradigm shift in attitudes and approaches to disability rights, marking the first time in law-making history that persons with disabilities participated as civil society representatives and contributed to the drafting of an international treaty. On the way, they brought a new kind of ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Foundations of Forensic Vocational Rehabilitation

    This is the first fundamental text to focus specifically on forensic vocational rehabilitation, a field that is forecast to grow rapidly. Forensic vocational rehabilitation consultants evaluate the vocational and rehabilitation needs of individuals in an array of legal settings such as civil litigation, workersí compensation, Social Security disability, and others. The text is unique in its ... Read more

    $94.99 USD