Encyclopedia of Disability by
The Encyclopedia of Disability is an award-winning five-volume set from SAGE Reference, awarded Best Reference 2005 award from the Library Journal along with an Outstanding Award from the American Library Association's Booklist journal. It represents the first attempt to bring an authoritative reference resource to the many faces of disability. More than 500 world-renowned scholars have written over 1000 entries, in a clear, accessible style, with the desire to bring all students, researchers, and interested readers closer to the daily experience of disability. The first four volumes cover disability in an A to Z format, including a reader's guide, comprehensive bibliography and index. Volume five contains a wealth of primary source documents in the field of disability, everything from photographs to correspondence to excerpts from movie scripts and more. #65533;#65533; Sample entries are available to download from the resources section of the website - click on Sample Chapters & Resources to see more #65533;#65533; The Encyclopedia of Disability is a must-have reference for all academic libraries, large public libraries and any social science, medical, legal, or governmental reference collections. Non-governmental organizations, charitable foundations and law firms will also want to add this set to their collections. Senior Editors Jerome Bickenbach, Queen's University Scott Brown Dudley Childress, Northwestern University Medical School Joseph Flaherty, Univeristy of Illinois at Chicago Allen Heinemann, Northwestern University Tamar Heller, Univeristy of Illinois at Chicago Christopher Keys, Univeristy of Illinois at Chicago David Mitchell, Univeristy of Illinois at Chicago Trevor Parmenter, University of Sydney, Australia Mairian Scott-Hill, Marsh Hills Cottage Tom Shakespeare, University of Newcastle Sharon Snyder, Univeristy of Illinois at Chicago Henri-Jacques Stiker, Univeristy of Paris Key Themes Conditions Therapies Biographies/History Laws Policy Consumer Organizations/Advocacy Definition/Concepts Movement Ideology International Developing Countries/Cultural Differences Professional and Lay Cultures Interventions Prevention Identity and Representation Products/Technology/Assisted Devices Social Political Universal Design/Architecture /Physical Environment Outcomes/Efficacy Cross Cultural/Cross National Journals/Resources Gary L Albrecht is Professor of Public Health and of Disability and Human Development at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Encyclopedia of American Disability History by
Examines the issues, events, people, activism, laws, personal experiences, and social ramifications of disability throughout American history.
The A to Z of Learning Disabilities by
With more than 650 entries, this title serves as a guide to various types of learning disabilities, including how they function, how they can be diagnosed, and how they can be treated. Entries include: adaptive skills, assistive technology, bipolar disorder, child disintegrative disorder, dioxins, traumatic brain injury, and Williams Syndrome.
The Encyclopedia of Mental Health by
According to the National Center for Health Statistics, mental health disorders led to more than 40 million doctor visits and 2 million emergency room visits in 2002.""The Encyclopedia of Mental Health, Third Edition"" is a revised and updated A-to-Z reference covering all aspects of general mental health topics. This accessible guide sorts through a maze of professional jargon to provide incisive definitions of theories, syndromes, symptoms, treatments, and contemporary issues, in language that everyone can understand, bringing readers the most up-to-date information on this subject. Presenting more than 2,000 new and updated entries with approximately 70,000 words of new text, this volume is the perfect resource for anyone dealing with this mental disorder.
Being Heumann : an unrepentant memoir of a disability rights activist by
Being Heumann Paralyzed from polio at eighteen months, Judy's struggle for equality began early in life. From fighting to attend grade school after being described as a "fire hazard" to later winning a lawsuit against the New York City school system for denying her a teacher's license because of her paralysis, Judy's actions set a precedent that fundamentally improved rights for disabled people. As a young woman, Judy rolled her wheelchair through the doors of the US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in San Francisco as a leader of the Section 504 Sit-In, the longest takeover of a governmental building in US history. Working with a community of over 150 disabled activists and allies, Judy successfully pressured the Carter administration to implement protections for disabled peoples' rights, sparking a national movement and leading to the creation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Candid, intimate, and irreverent, Judy Heumann's memoir about resistance to exclusion invites readers to imagine and make real a world in which we all belong.
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For best results, use the Library of Congress Subject Headings (viewable within individual WorldCat UMD records.) Subject headings in Disability Studies will vary widely depending on your topic of interest. Some examples of relevant subject headings are:
| Disability studies | Sociology of disability |
| Disabled persons | People with disabilities |
| People with mental disabilities | People with visual disabilities |
| People with disabilities in literature | People with disabilities in mass media |
| Artists with disabilities | Children with disabilities |
| Parents with disabilities | Students with disabilities |
| Women with disabilities | Computers and people with disabilities |
| Developmentally disabled children | Communicative disorders |
| Hearing disorders | Movement disorders |
| Psychomotor disorders | Speech disorders |
| Mental retardation | Learning disabled |
| Blind | Deaf |
| Barrier-free design | Discrimination against people with disabilities |
Many subject headings will also subdivide. For example, People with disabilities includes the following sub-divisions:
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