Understanding Disability: Inclusion, Access, Diversity, and Civil Rights

Jaeger, Paul T.; Bowman, Cynthia Ann

ISBN 10: 0275982262 / ISBN 13: 9780275982263

Editore: Praeger, 2005

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Titolo: Understanding Disability: Inclusion, Access,...

Casa editrice: Praeger

Data di pubblicazione: 2005

Legatura: Rilegato

Condizione: Good

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Riassunto:

Disability is rarely considered a social issue. Scholars tend to discuss it in the abstract; medical personnel view it as a health issue; and legal concerns for the disabled focus on how to advocate or protect organizations against demands for accommodation. As a result, disabled individuals are seen as bits and pieces of everyone's constituency but their own. The writers of this work, both having long personal experiences with disabilities, offer a holistic understanding of the lives of disabled individuals from representations in the media to issues of civil rights.

L'autore:

Paul T. Jaeger is Manager for Research Development Information Use Management and Policy Institute, Florida State University. His publications have addressed issues of disability law and accessibility, information access, education, electronic government, and information policy and law. He is co-author of A Guide to High School Success for Students with Disabilities, Greenwood, 2005 and Disability Matters: Legal and Pedagogical Issues of Disability in Education Bergin & Garvey/Praeger, 2002.

Cynthia Ann Bowman is Associate Professor Literacy Education, Ashland University, OH. She is President-Elect of the Ohio Council of Teachers of English Language Arts and the author of numerous publications on teaching and technology. She is co-author of A Guide to High School Success for Students with Disabilities, Greenwood, 2005 and Disability Matters: Legal and Pedagogical Issues of Disability in Education Bergin & Garvey/Praeger, 2002. She is also the editor of Using Literature to Help Troubled Teenagers Cope with Health Issues, Greenwood, 2000.