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  • Lectura fácil

    by Cristina Morales ...
    Son cuatro: Nati, Patri, Marga y Àngels. Son parientas, tienen diversos grados de lo que la Administración y la medicina consideran «discapacidad intelectual» y comparten un piso tutelado. Han pasado buena parte de sus vidas en RUDIS y CRUDIS (residencias urbanas y rurales para personas con discapacidad intelectual). Pero ante todo son mujeres con una extraordinaria capacidad para enfrentarse a ... Read more

    S$ 16.29 SGD

  • O chamado pente-fino do INSS

    Alternativas processuais para a reativação dos Benefícios por Incapacidade e BPC

    by Andre Luiz Moro Bittencourt ...
    O CHAMADO "PENTE-FINO" DO INSS: Alternativas Processuais para a Reativação dos Benefícios por Incapacidade e BPC Autor: André Luiz Moro Bittencourt O grande número de pedidos de benefícios na esfera administrativa, aliado a um sucateamento da autarquia − seja no que diz respeito aos elementos materiais para desenvolvimento das atividades de servidores, seja na falta de servidores e de valorização ... Read more

    S$ 26.80 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Digital Access to the Performing Arts

    Comparative Study of Legal and Structural Challenges

    by Magda Romanska ...
    Available open access digitally under a CC-BY-NC-ND license.How can we make the digital performing arts truly accessible?Written by experts at metaLAB at Harvard, this pioneering study explores the urgent need to rethink digital access in the performing arts. Drawing on comparative research across the US, UK, EU and Australia, it examines how the COVID-19 pandemic exposed both the potential and ... Read more

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  • Disability and U.S. Politics

    Participation, Policy, and Controversy [2 volumes]

    Edited by Dana Lee Baker ...
    More than 1 billion people worldwide have a disability, and they are all affected by politics. This two-volume work explores key topics at the heart of disability policy, such as voting, race, gender, age, health care, social security, transportation, abuse, and the environment.Disability policy is no longer an area that can be adequately addressed within major areas of public policy such as ... Read more

    S$ 148.99 SGD

  • Capacity, Participation and Values in Comparative Legal Perspective

    Edited by Camillia Kong, John Coggon, Penny Cooper, Michael Dunn, Alex Ruck Keene ...
    With contributions from an international team of experts, this collection provides a much-needed international, comparative approach to mental capacity law.The book focuses particularly on exploring substantive commonalities and divergences in normative orientation and practical application embedded in different legal frameworks. It draws together contributions from eleven different jurisdictions ... Read more

    S$ 60.38 SGD

  • The Legal Protection of Refugees with Disabilities

    Forgotten and Invisible?

    by Mary Crock, Laura Smith-Khan, Ron McCallum, Ben Saul ...
    Series series Elgar Studies in Human Rights
    Refugees living with disabilities are often forgotten or invisible during acute crises of human displacement. This groundbreaking work examines the experiences of persons with disabilities who have crossed borders in search of protection from disasters or conflict, and analyses the existing legal frameworks for their protection.The authors deftly explore the intersection between one of the oldest ... Read more

    S$ 47.51 SGD

  • How to Meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines

    A Complete Guide to WCAG 2.2

    by Luke McGrath ...
    How to Meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines teaches you how to pass every guideline from the web's most powerful accessibility standards.The book covers each guideline in detail, including:background to help you understand the contexthow to passany exceptionstips and tricks to make your life easiershortcuts to meeting multiple guidelines together.WCAG and web accessibility can seem ... Read more

    S$ 38.47 SGD

  • Como Você

    by Wesley Santos ...
    Nem toda amizade é um porto seguro. Algumas são teias complexas, forjadas na admiração, corroídas pela inveja e testadas pelo mais brutal dos destinos. Beatriz e Odete, unidas por um laço desde a infância, veem seus mundos colidirem novamente na fase adulta, quando as velhas feridas da rivalidade e da obsessão ressurgem. Mas é em meio à paisagem gelada e inóspita dos Andes, após uma queda que ... Read more

    S$ 7.43 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Legacies of Institutionalisation

    Disability, Law and Policy in the ‘Deinstitutionalised’ Community

    Edited by Dr Claire Spivakovsky, Dr Linda Steele, Professor Penelope Weller ...
    Series series Oñati International Series in Law and Society
    This is the first collection to examine the legal dynamics of deinstitutionalisation. It considers the extent to which some contemporary laws, policies and practices affecting people with disabilities are moving towards the promised end point of enhanced social and political participation in the community, while others may instead reinstate, continue or legitimate historical practices associated ... Read more

    S$ 53.07 SGD

  • La vita indipendente per le persone con disabilità. Un diritto fondamentale

    by Alessia Lovece, Massimiliano Verga ...
    Il diritto per le persone con disabilità di scegliere come, dove e con chi vivere è sancito dall'art.19 della Convenzione delle Nazioni Unite sui diritti delle persone con disabilità del 2006, ratificata dall'Italia nel 2009. Nel nostro ordinamento, la nozione di "vita indipendente" compare per la prima volta nel 1998, per poi trovare, nell'ultimo decennio, uno spazio sempre più significativo, in ... Read more

    S$ 14.98 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Complex Regional Pain Syndrome - What is the Evidence?

    Ebook Format

    by Douglas W Martin, Robert J Barth, James B Talmage ...
    Complex Regional Pain Syndrome is a controversial issue in medicine. This book provides the most up to date universal review of the construct known as CRPS. The authors review the history of the diagnosis and offer an evidence based criticism regarding the development of the CRPS nomenclature. Chapters contain information regarding the theories of causation and difficulties encountered in the lack ... Read more

    S$ 124.25 SGD

  • Muthi Wami

    by Toki Mohoto ...
    Mvuseni was a boy from a rural area with little education, but lots of experience which were passed onto him through a sacred family tradition of inheriting a gift of a special kind.This was no ordinary gift, title or responsibility to inherit. One could not deny nor avoid it when the time came to manage the responsibilities it came with. You were called to heal and healing you did!Mvuseni, like ... Read more

    S$ 8.94 SGD

  • Laboratory of Deficiency

    Sterilization and Confinement in California, 1900–1950s

    by Natalie Lira ...
    Series Book 6 - Reproductive Justice: A New Vision for the 21st Century
    Pacific Colony, a Southern California institution established to care for the “feebleminded,” justified the incarceration, sterilization, and forced mutilation of some of the most vulnerable members of society from the 1920s through the 1950s. Institutional records document the convergence of ableism and racism in Pacific Colony. Analyzing a vast archive, Natalie Lira reveals how political ... Read more

    S$ 37.59 SGD

  • It’s Not Because I Want to Die

    by Debbie Purdy ...
    Debbie Purdy doesn't want to die. She has far too much to live for. But when the time comes, and the pain is so unbearable that she cannot go on, she wants her husband to be by her side, holding her hand until the end; and she wants to know that he won't be arrested.Debbie Purdy – the face of Britain's right-to-die campaign – suffers from multiple sclerosis. She was diagnosed in 1995 – barely a ... Read more

    S$ 10.13 SGD

  • Workplace Mental Health Law

    Comparative Perspectives

    by Takenori Mishiba ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Health Law
    This book provides a systematic and interdisciplinary study of occupational mental health legislation in seven countries.The work presents a study of the laws, policies, and legal interpretations to help prevent mental health problems from occurring in the workplace and appropriately address problems once they do occur. With a view to improving provision in Japan, the author examines the legal ... Read more

    S$ 87.78 SGD

  • Applying the Mental Capacity Act 2005 in Education

    A Practical Guide for Education Professionals

    by Jane L. Sinson ...
    This straightforward book explains the introduction of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA) and its code of practice (COP) as part of the Children and Families Act 2014 and the accompanying SEND COP in England.This is the first comprehensive book to explain to education professionals the legal requirement to follow the MCA COP and SEND COP guidelines when formally considering a young person's (16 - ... Read more

    S$ 38.36 SGD

  • Legal Capacity, Disability and Human Rights

    by Michael Bach, Nicolás Espejo-Yaksic ...
    This book comprises chapters by key legal scholars and practitioners from the Americas, Europe, Asia, Oceania and Africa. It examines the evolution, theoretical constructs and institutional features of legal capacity, as well as the specific ways in which evolving principles, rights and standards derived from disability law and human rights are impacting and transforming the law. The book also ... Read more

    S$ 151.02 SGD

  • Crip Times

    Disability, Globalization, and Resistance

    by Robert McRuer ...
    Series Book 1 - Crip
    Contends that disability is a central but misunderstood element of global austerity politics.Broadly attentive to the political and economic shifts of the last several decades, Robert McRuer asks how disability activists, artists and social movements generate change and resist the dominant forms of globalization in an age of austerity, or “crip times.”Throughout Crip Times, McRuer considers how ... Read more

    S$ 34.43 SGD

  • Disability as Diversity in India

    Theory, Practice, and Lived Experience

    Edited by Sandhya Limaye, Christopher Johnstone, Misa Kayama ...
    This book critically analyses diverse experiences related to disability in India. Drawing upon intersectionality theory, it explores a range of issues regarding everyday experiences of disability in relation to gender, religion, social experiences, and India’s neoliberal economy and its built environment. From theoretical to deeply personal, this book discusses themes like invisible disability and ... Read more

    S$ 90.57 SGD

  • Creative Minds, Divergent Paths

    Exploring Neurodiversity in the Arts and Employment

    by Dan Lovesey ...
    Series series Emerald Studies in Workplace Neurodiversity
    Neurodivergent individuals frequently face distinct challenges within creative fields such as music, literature, performance, media, and the visual arts. Recognising how their experiences intersect with creative expression and employment is essential, not only to support individual potential but also to expand our understanding of inclusivity in these fields. The perspectives of neurodivergent ... Read more

    S$ 131.44 SGD

  • Medical Humanities and Disability Studies

    In/Disciplines

    by Stuart Murray ...
    Series series Critical Interventions in the Medical and Health Humanities
    Medical humanities and disability studies are disciplines at the cutting edge of innovative critical work in the study of health and disability, but to date there has been no book-length examination of the relationship between the two. Although each has emerged from different heritages, they share many features, from discussing the complexities of embodiment, identifying processes of exclusion and ... Read more

    S$ 26.15 SGD

  • Eine Geschichte der Menschen mit Behinderung Dis/abled in 500-1620

    by Robert Ralf Keintzel ...
    Eine Geschichte der Menschen mit Behinderung Dis/abled in 500 - 1620 Im Jahr 2013 waren in Mitteleuropa 12,7% der deutschsprachigen Bevölkerung Menschen mit sogenannter Behinderung, also mehr als jede zehnte Person. Dennoch wurden diese Menschen lange Zeit von der Geschichtsschreibung vergessen. Menschen mit Behinderung haben aber sehr wohl eine lange Geschichte, die sich auf ihre Gegenwart und ... Read more

    S$ 19.98 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Beyond26 Story

    by Dirk Bakhuyzen ...
    How Community Based Employment for Individuals with Disabilities Changes Lives.The Bakhuyzen family is introduced to the world of disability by their adopted son, Will. Join their journey, from adopting a special needs boy from Hong Kong to beginning a faith-based nonprofit that finds employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities. Through inspiring stories, Dirk Bakhuyzen shows how ... Read more

    S$ 19.94 SGD

  • So You Think You Need A Lawyer?

    by The Committee for Social Justice ...
    The complelling true story of Ann M. Pavlick, author and brain injury advocate.Just when you feel it can't get any worse - it does! A nightmare of tragedy and despair encounters indominable spirit and the grace of not giving up. This is not fiction. The events are detestable but need to be told. it will have you shaking your head and doubting the values held in society. And perhaps more disturbing ... Read more

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