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Embarking on a New Century
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 282

Embarking on a New Century

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2002
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  • Publisher: AAMR

Captures the challenging and controversial era between 1975-2000 that led the field of intellectual disability into an age of community acceptance and inclusion. This title includes chapters that focus themes such as public policy and health care.

Disabilities and the Life Course
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 235

Disabilities and the Life Course

Featuring a framework rarely applied in the field of disability studies, this book explores not only a range of disabilities and impairments but also a diverse array of life course experiences, deepening knowledge across both fields for the widest possible impact.

Disability and the Changing Contexts of Family and Personal Relationships
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 241

Disability and the Changing Contexts of Family and Personal Relationships

Showcasing conceptually innovative work and cutting-edge methods related to the study of families, this volume presents not just a groundbreaking perspective on disability and family life, but also a new paradigm in disability scholarship.

Pennhurst and the Struggle for Disability Rights
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 289

Pennhurst and the Struggle for Disability Rights

Conceived in the era of eugenics as a solution to what was termed the “problem of the feeble-minded,” state-operated institutions subjected people with intellectual and developmental disabilities to a life of compulsory incarceration. One of nearly 300 such facilities in the United States, Pennhurst State School and Hospital was initially hailed as a “model institution” but was later revealed to be a nightmare, where medical experimentation and physical and psychological abuse were rampant. At its peak, more than 3,500 residents were confined at Pennhurst, supervised by a staff of fewer than 600. Using a blended narrative of essays and first-person accounts, this history of Pennhurst...

Family Policy and Disability
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 225

Family Policy and Disability

Explores family policies related to households of children with disabilities, providing an in-depth, evidence-based review of legal, programmatic issues.

For Love or Money
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 299

For Love or Money

As women moved into the formal labor force in large numbers over the last forty years, care work – traditionally provided primarily by women – has increasingly shifted from the family arena to the market. Child care, elder care, care for the disabled, and home care now account for a growing segment of low-wage work in the United States, and demand for such work will only increase as the baby boom generation ages. But the expanding market provision of care has created new economic anxieties and raised pointed questions: Why do women continue to do most care work, both paid and unpaid? Why does care work remain low paid when the quality of care is so highly valued? How effective and equita...

Disability and Community
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 307

Disability and Community

Examines an array of issues related to disability and community. This title also examines a range of social institutions and practices such as education, employment, and cultural venues and the extent to which and how they include people with disabilities in the workings of these institutions.

Environmental Contexts and Disability
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 309

Environmental Contexts and Disability

This volume presents papers which address both individual and societal levels of environment in relation to disability and shed new light on the processes involved with creating or modifying these environmental supports or barriers.

Public Administration and Disability
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 291

Public Administration and Disability

Based on decades of evidence-based research and technical assistance, Public Administration and Disability: Community Services Administration in the US brings together the diverse, expert perspectives and discusses the leading efforts of the past three decades in the field of disability and community services. The book highlights the development of

Intellectual Disabilities and Autism: Ethics and Practice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 431

Intellectual Disabilities and Autism: Ethics and Practice

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