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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.
Interdisciplinary clinical assessment of young children with developmental disabilities
- Editor:
- GURALNICK Michael J.
- Publisher:
- Paul H. Brookes
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 486p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Baltimore, MD
Contains chapters on: young children with possible hearing loss; assessing language and communicative development; neurodevelopment; the nursing role within the interdisciplinary team; nutrition assessment; occupational therapy assessment; pediatric physiotherapy; psychological assessment; and the role of social work. Includes case studies on: an infant at increased risk; a child with Downs syndrome; an infant with phenylketonuria; a child with autism spectrum disorder; a child with fetal alcohol syndrome; a child with Prader-Willi syndrome; and a child with fragile X syndrome. The book concludes with a section on international perspectives, looking at Russia, Italy and Sweden.
Widening the loop: the co-ordination of rehabilitation services for people with disabilities
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health. Inter-Departmental Group on Disability. Sub-Group on the Co-ordination of Rehabilitation Services for People with Disabilities
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. Inter-Departmental Group on Disability
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 19p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report looking at ways of improving communication and co-ordination of service planning and delivery between national and local statutory and non-statutory agencies concerned with rehabilitation, education and training (including employment) for people with disabilities.
Taking care
- Author:
- COWEN Alison
- Publisher:
- Family Fund/Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 80p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
Written by parents of children with a wide range of disabilities, including learning difficulties, sensory impairments and physical disabilities. Shows how parents of disabled children experience high levels of stress, but also how they find their own ways of coping and of enjoying life with a disabled child. Aimed not only at other parents, but also at service providers. Shows the importance of properly co-ordinated support and the need for improved information.
Community care monitoring and development: implementing community care for younger people with physical and sensory disabilities; report and findings of the SSI/NHSME special project
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 37p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report describing the achievements and progress being made in community care service provision to young people with disabilities in 5 local authorities under the headings: policy issues; joint working across agencies and with users; implementation; and community services, including independent living, information and transitional services.