Environmental contexts and disability

• Other Authors: Barnartt, Sharon N., Altman, Barbara Mandell
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2014.
• Series: Research in social science and disability ; v. 8.
• Subjects: People with disabilities > Social aspects.; Barrier-free design.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781784412623
• ISSN: 1479-3547 ;
• DOI: 10.1108/S1479-354720148
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxii, 286 p.)

Physical structure, economic expectation or social relationship norms developed within various cultures can either restrict or support the participation of individuals with disabilities in society. The influence of environmental factors can vary significantly according to context, characteristics or...

Table of Contents:

• Disabled persons associations at the crossroads of two organizational environments : grassroots groups as part of an international movement and local civil society / Stephen Meyers
• The experience of environmental barriers among adults with disabilities : a national description / Barbara M. Altman, Donald J. Lollar, Elizabeth K. Rasch
• Assessing and comparing the accessibility of community environments : a feasibility study / Tom Seekins, Nancy Arnold, Catherine Ipsen
• Disability, rehabilitation research and post-Cartesian embodied ontologies : has the research paradigm changed? / Geoffrey Edwards ... [et al.]
• Schelling's checkerboard and computer simulators' predictions of spatial isolation of group homes for persons with disabilities / Kenneth Robey
• Exploring the feasibility of using "Google street view" to assess the accessibility of community environments : developing definitions and observational protocol for image recognition and classification / Tom Seekins, Brandon Rennie, Julia Hammond
• The effects of professional discourse on disability 1931-2009 : environments of inclusive and restricted participation / Rebecca Beals, Robert Fiala
• Using a rapid scan to assess the need for a scoping review of the literature on the environment and disability / Julia Hammond, Tom Seekins
• Examining macro and meso level barriers to hiring persons with disabilities : a scoping review / Lynn Shaw ... [et al.]
• "I can reinvent myself out here" : experiences of nature inclusion and mental wellbeing / Sonya L. Jakubec, Don Carruthers Den Hoed, Heather Ray
• Encounters with inaccessibility : the contexts women with spinal cord injury face when seeking gynecological health care / Catherine Lysack, Heather Dillaway
• An examination of systems-level barriers to employment for persons with vision loss / Chelsea Mohler ... [et al.].