1 IN 5 AMERICANS HAS DISABILITY LET'S RESPECT ALL...

The Capital Times (Madison, WI);  November 29, 2007 ;     240 words ......letter regarding the use of people-first language. VSA, a nonprofit organization...person first, and that their disability is merely one characteristic...respect and dignity. Using people-first language is an important tool in...in five Americans has a disability), a ...

Models of disability: implications for the counseling profession.(Practice...

Journal of Counseling and Development;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Disability is a natural part of human existence and is growing more common as a larger proportion of the U.S. population experiences some type of disability (Americans With Disabilities Act [ADA], 1990; Bowe, 1980; Employment and Disability Institute, 1996; Pope & Tarlov, 1991; Trieschmann, 1987; U.S. ...

Disability, Self, and Society

The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology;  February 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...TANYA TITCHKOSKY, Disability, Self, and Society. Toronto, Buffalo and London...moves beyond studies that too-narrowly treat disability as merely a source of oppression to show that disability is better understood as a "marginal experience...

Embodied Rhetorics: Disability in Language and Culture.(Book Review)

Argumentation and Advocacy;  September 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Embodied Rhetorics: Disability in Language and Culture. Edited by...and problems Embodied Rhetorics: Disability in Language and Culture seeks to...These include the association of disability with inability, the problem of authority...

The costs of disability and the incidence of poverty.

Australian Journal of Social Issues;  June 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Introduction (1) (*) Although both disability and poverty have been subjected...research has had little influence on disability policy, where attention has focused on the growing numbers of Disability Support Pension (DSP) recipients...

Narrating Self and Disability: Latino Mothers' Construction of Identities...

Exceptional Children;  June 22, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Having a child with a disability raises key questions that parents...come with having a child with a disability; and (d) how to understand the cause...societies create meanings around disability has received some attention in special...

The Difference That Disability Makes

The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology;  February 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...ROD MICHALKO, The Difference That Disability Makes. Philadelphia, Penn.: Temple University...moves beyond the dominant notion of disability as "impairment" and "biology gone wrong...and "normal" body and reformulates disability as a collective issue, rather than as...

Disability in Older Adults: Policy Implications.

Hospital Topics;  March 22, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Overshadowing all other policy implications of disability related to elderly people in the United...direct and indirect costs associated with disability and rehabilitation in the total population...disabilities.[1,2] The costs associated with disability amount to more than 4% of the gross...

"Every picture tells a story, don't it?" (1): the complex role of...

Narrative;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......problematic implications: * The person with a disability as pitiable, deserving of protection...entitled to respect * The person with a disability as inevitably dependent on others for...his or her needs * The person with a disability as a hard worker, thankful for the...characterize as demeaning * The ...

Introduction to Disability.(Review)

Physical Therapy;  April 1, 1999 ;     601 words ...Introduction to Disability McColl MA, Bickenbach JE, eds. London...provided perspectives on the concept of disability from the United States, Canada, and...definitions and classifications of disability that have evolved over the years...

Disability in Local and Global Worlds

Anthropological Quarterly;  October 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Ingstad and Susan Reynolds Whyte, eds. Disability in Local and Global Worlds. Berkeley...University of California Press, 2007. 324 pp. Disability is realized through a complex web of...or preferred futures. The essays in Disability in Local and Global Worlds, edited by...

WRITING, IDENTITY, AND THE OTHER: DARE WE DO DISABILITY STUDIES?

Journal of Teacher Education;  March 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ...I can't ignore my disability, why would you? --Karen (high school...Morris (1991) Cultural perceptions of disability do not emerge in a vacuum; they accrue...deficiency and need. Historically, disability has been the exclusive domain of...

Introduction: disability and community development.

Community Development: Journal of the Community Development Society;  September 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Worldwide, 600 million people live with disability, 80% of whom live in developing countries...Organization, 2005). But the idea of disability is controversial, influenced by culture...restricted-activity approach to estimate the rate of disability within their populations, including...

'Don't Talk About Me ... Like I'm Not Here: Disability in Australian...

Metro : Media & Education Magazine;  October 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Abstract DISABILITY IS A CENTRAL CULTURAL IDENTITY and...conversations and critical analyses of disability in Australian culture through an exploration...cultural form, namely film. The trope of disability looms large in late twentieth century...

Disability, Society, and the Individual

Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin;  July 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Smart, J. (2001). Disability, Society, and the Individual. Austin...54.00 (softcover) In her book, Disability, Society, and the Individual, Julie...the area of psychosocial aspects of disability have-creating a comprehensive, well-balanc...