Hard-hitting and deeply moving stories, poems, and essays by more than thirty disabled women, winner of the MIND/Allen Lane Book of the Year Award. ...

After spending three years in a hospital and numerous operations, McDonnell returns home to cope with poverty, life on a housing estate, school, and one short, mishapen leg. She learns to survive this harsh world and adapt. We exult in her triumphs and cry at her disasters. ...

This manual is for community workers and other people who are assisting persons with disabilities and able-bodied persons to start small businesses. It can also be used by persons with disabilities themselves. The manual can be used as (1) a self-instructing training manual for teaching community workers, persons with disabilities and others to set up a small business; (2) a guide for community workers working for government or organizations of ...

This workbook provides more than 50 questions and exercises designed to empower those with physical loss and disability to better understand and accept their ongoing processes of loss and recovery. (Education/Teaching) ...

"Autistic Symphony" offers a unique look at the fascinating subject of autism. Challenging the psychiatric and scientific perspectives that focus exclusively on disabilities and impairments, "Autistic Symphony" celebrates the challenges and rewards experienced by every autistic individual, and argues that far from being a medical monster, autism is one of our culture's greatest strengths. Through five essays incorporating viewpoints from ...

Originally printed in a small edition and withdrawn after one month by the publisher, Pocket Books, "Freaks" -- out of print for nearly 20 years -- was brought back to eyepopping life, with many new photos, by the renowned marginal culture press RE/Search. Now Juno Books, morphed from the now-defunct RE/Search, has brought "Freaks" back into the mainstream publishing fold with panache.<P>In "Freaks", meet the strangest people who ever ...

Mental Health and Deafness provides a straightforward comprehensive text aimed at care workers with deaf people, general mental health workers and, mental health workers with deaf people. It covers a wide range of mental health issues as they relate to deafness. The contributors, some of whom are deaf themselves, are leading experts in the field nationally and internationally and come from a range of professional disciplines. ...

New Horizons in Sport for Athletes with a Disability maps out the developmental perspectives of Paralympic sport. The proceedings of the second edition of the International Paralympic Committee's innovative VISTA Conference series comprise 60 contributions by renowned international experts, addressing all major issues of current Paralympic sport: sport performance (including exercise physiology, advances in training techniques, technical ...

New Horizons in Sport for Athletes with a Disability maps out the developmental perspectives of Paralympic sport. The proceedings of the second edition of the International Paralympic Committee's innovative VISTA Conference series comprise 60 contributions by renowned international experts, addressing all major issues of current Paralympic sport: sport performance (including exercise physiology, advances in training techniques, technical ...

This practical manual enables those diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome and high-functioning autism to deepen their self-understanding and appreciate their value as working individuals. The workbook contains practical exercises with clear explanations and examples of how to use them. It provides unique, in-depth guidance and research on productive and fulfilling employment for adults and adolescents with Asperger's Syndrome and high functioning ...