Understanding Disability: Inclusion, Access, Diversity, and Civil Rights - Tapa blanda

Bowman, Cynthia Ann; Jaeger, Paul T.

 
9780313361784: Understanding Disability: Inclusion, Access, Diversity, and Civil Rights
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ISBN 10: 0313361789 ISBN 13: 9780313361784
Editorial: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2008

Sinopsis

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. Written to educate and inform readers about the social roles of disability, this accessible and informative work addresses: social classifications of disability; social reactions to disability; legal rights and classifications of persons with disabilities; issues of accessibility to information and communication technologies; representations of disability in a range of media, including literature, painting, film, televsion and advertising; and major issues shaping the comtemporary social roles of persons with disabilities. By examining the social roles of disability in the past and present from a range of perspectives and disciplines, this book reveals a portrait of the social place, limitations, and rights of persons with disabilities.

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CYNTHIA ANN BOWMAN is Assistant Professor of English Education at Florida State University./e She is Chair of the CEE Commission for the Preparation of Teachers with Disabilities.

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Editorial
Greenwood Publishing Group
Año de publicación
2008
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0313361789
ISBN 13 
9780313361784
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
184
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