Disability and community

This volume of Research in Social Science and Disability brings together interdisciplinary scholarship to examine a wide array of issues related to disability and community, a topic of critical importance academically and politically. The evolving and politically contested notions of community sit a...

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Other Authors Carey, Allison C., Scotch, Richard K., 1951-
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2011.
SeriesResearch in social science and disability ; v. 6.
Subjects
Sociology of disability.
People with disabilities > Social conditions.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9780857248008
ISSN1479-3547 ;
DOI10.1108/S1479-3547(2011)6
Physical Description1 online resource (xviii, 288 p.) : ill.

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : disability and community / Richard K. Scotch
  • Bowling together : foundations of community among youth with disabilities / Valerie Leiter
  • The student body : the intersection of spatial design, architecture, and cultural policy in university communities / Stephen Gilson, Elizabeth DePoy
  • Families of children with autism and developmental disabilities : a description of their community interaction / Preethy S. Samuel, Karen L. Hobden, Barbara W. LeRoy
  • Building pediatric multiple sclerosis community using a disability studies framework of empowerment / Pamela Block, Eva L. Rodriguez, Maria C. Milazzo, William S. MacAllister, Lauren B. Krupp, Akemi Nishida, Nina Slota, Alyssa M. Broughton, Christopher B. Keys
  • Communities of prosthesis users and possibilities for personal innovation / Cynthia E. Schairer
  • Creating a village to raise a child : constructing community in families of children with disabilities / Sara E. Green, Julia Barnhill, Sherri Green, Diana Torres Hawken, Loretta Sue Humphrey, Scott Sanderson
  • Crossing borders, pushing boundaries : disabled refugees' experiences of community and community participation in the USA / Mansha Mirza, Joy Hammel
  • The quest for community : intellectual disability and the shifting meaning of community in activism / Allison C. Carey
  • Same mandate, changing concepts of community : an analysis of bills to mandate Medicaid coverage of community-based attendant services and supports (1997-2010) / Brian R. Grossman
  • The contested meaning of 'community' in discourses of deinstitutionalization and community living in the field of developmental disability / Liat Ben-Moshe
  • Disability and the neoliberal Indian state : the perils of community participation / Vandana Chaudhry.

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