http://www.disabled-world.com/ Disability Community News and Information Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:38:11 PST en-us http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/publications/language-barriers.php Books and Publications Joint Commission, HHS Team Up in Language Access Education Effort - New video urges health care organizations to break language access barriers. Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:30:43 PST http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/publications/language-barriers.php http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/publications/anthrax-vaccine.php Books and Publications The Human Anthrax Vaccine Program must be stopped. Scott Miller and Company has completed the feature film "A Call to Arms:2009 Edition" and the one-hour television documentary "Fatal Immunity: The Human Anthrax Vaccine Story" to inform the public about the clear and present danger of top secret government science turned into for-profit human anthrax vaccines with no accountability to its victims. It is available for world-wide licensing by motion picture and television distributors and exhibitors. Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:45:54 PST http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/publications/anthrax-vaccine.php http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/publications/hearing-is-believing.php Books and Publications Nancy Burns was an average 11-year-old sixth grader with 11-year-old concerns, navigating the waters of middle school in Missouri. Everything about her life was ordinary, that is, until Nancy suddenly and traumatically lost her sight. Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:04:30 PST http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/publications/hearing-is-believing.php http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/publications/new-mobility-magazine.php Books and Publications Award-Winning Disability Lifestyle Magazine Celebrates 20 Years of Publication - And 20 Years of Employing People with Disabilities. Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:59:32 PST http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/publications/new-mobility-magazine.php http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/publications/lighting-the-way.php Books and Publications For most people, simply staying upright on a downhill ski slope is achievement enough. Turning and looking up the hill we have just traversed, we swell with confidence and pride, knowing that we have done what so many are unable to do. Now, imagine doing the same thing without the benefit of both of your legs, your arms, or even your sight. Would you still be able to make it the bottom? Better yet, would you be able to win Olympic Gold? Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:34:52 PST http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/publications/lighting-the-way.php http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/publications/ms-survivor-amelia-davis.php Books and Publications MS Survivor and photographer Amelia Davis turns her lens on those living with osteoporotic disease in her book, Faces of Osteoporosis. Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:51:19 PST http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/publications/ms-survivor-amelia-davis.php http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/publications/ability-lane.php Books and Publications Ability Lane - Disability History, Culture, Care and Experience; A Gift to the Disability Community At Large. Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:44:59 PST http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/publications/ability-lane.php http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/publications/google-books-epub.php Books and Publications Google has announced that over a million out of copyright books in Google Books can now be downloaded in the open EPUB format making these public domain books more accessible. The EPUB format is supported by an increasing number of devices, including e-readers, netbooks and phones. Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:47:58 PST http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/publications/google-books-epub.php http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/publications/disability-inclusion.php Books and Publications This long-overdue book is exactly what is needed for an introductory course in disability studies. The text is well researched and readable, and even has an international perspective. It is also instructive for those who may have doubts about the academic legitimacy of disability studies and its focus on inter-disciplinarity. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:41:33 PST http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/publications/disability-inclusion.php http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/publications/multicultural-teaching.php Books and Publications Put multicultural theory into practice. Theories about diversity don't mean anything until you actually put them into practice. Now with Grant and Sleeter's Fourth Edition of Turning on Learning, you'll learn how to apply the principles of multicultural education in your classroom. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:12:03 PST http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/publications/multicultural-teaching.php http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/publications/disability-segregation.php Books and Publications DiLeo encourages a society of more independent living and working choices to enrich the lives of the disabled. Professionals resistant to change may argue they are providing a service that no one wants to do... DiLeo exposes the true face behind the altruistic mask of governmental agencies. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:53:25 PST http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/publications/disability-segregation.php http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/publications/developmental-disabilities-book.php Books and Publications This is a much-needed work that cuts across traditional disability classifications and focuses on what can be done and for whom. The editors have assembled a superb group of internationally recognized experts to provide cutting-edge perspectives on key issues in the field of developmental disabilities. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:00:43 PST http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/publications/developmental-disabilities-book.php http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/publications/history-of-disability.php Books and Publications With the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990, the editors write, awareness of the disabled reached an all-time, if controversial, high. As one of the contributors notes, however, the disabled have always been a part of America's history, even if they have been missing from the histories we've written. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:40:58 PST http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/publications/history-of-disability.php http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/publications/disability-rights-wrongs.php Books and Publications Tom Shakespeare has produced a work of mature scholarship that advances our thinking about the fundamental issues in Disability Studies. The clarity and balance of his argument challenges others to raise the level of discourse in the field. Disability Rights and Wrongs is a must read. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:37:12 PST http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/publications/disability-rights-wrongs.php http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/publications/rejected-body.php Books and Publications Wendell has significantly expanded the scholarship on impairment, a critical and underdeveloped area in disability studies. Even within the feminist framework, our definitions, knowledge, perceptions, and treatments of disabilities require rethinking. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:25:00 PST http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/publications/rejected-body.php http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/publications/adhd-adult-learning-disabilities.php Books and Publications Adult Learning Disabilities and ADHD reference book comprehensive in coverage of issues related to diagnosis and treatment of learning and attention disorders in adults. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:19:17 PST http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/publications/adhd-adult-learning-disabilities.php http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/publications/extraordinary-bodies.php Books and Publications Provides complex answers to the puzzle of American images of disabilities from the nineteenth century to the present. This is a solid, useful book which all readers interested in the relationship between society and culture must read. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:58:42 PST http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/publications/extraordinary-bodies.php http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/publications/no-pity.php Books and Publications Documents the political progress of the issue with stories about several of the nation's estimated 35 million disabled people. Included are polio-afflicted activists, Special Olympics competitors, armed services veterans and elderly people who owe their survival to medical and technological advances. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:47:07 PST http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/publications/no-pity.php http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/publications/voices-from-the-edge.php Books and Publications A fascinating series of personal accounts a rich and multifaceted overview of disability rights law, and of the experience of living with a disability in the contemporary United States. Voices from the Edge should be of particular interest to students in law, public policy, political science, and disability studies, all of whom would benefit from this mulitfaceted approach to disability and discrimination. Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:09:52 PST http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/publications/voices-from-the-edge.php http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/publications/cultural-locations-disability.php Books and Publications I learned something new and unanticipated from almost every page of this book. Snyder and Mitchell's Cultural Locations of Disability lays out in an extraordinary fashion the historical cultural locations of disabled citizens: charity systems, institutions for the feebleminded, the disability research industry, medical and popular film representations of disability, and current academic trends. Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:59:59 PST http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/publications/cultural-locations-disability.php