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Deaf and disabled, or deafness disabled: towards a human rights perspective
- Author:
- CORKER Mairian
- Publisher:
- Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 175p.,diags.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Buckingham
Uses a multidisciplinary, post-modernist approach to the search for an inclusive framework for understanding deafness and disability, which aims to liberate the political potential of socio-cultural diversity and develop our thinking about disability as a form of social oppression.
Accessing human rights: disabled children and the Children Act
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Publisher:
- Barnardo's
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 65p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Barkingside
Report examining to what extent the Children Act 1989 protects and promotes the human rights of disabled children. Taking the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child as a starting point, aims to stimulate debate and to challenge the assumption that all children are treated equally at all times.