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Loving our own bones : disability wisdom and the spiritual subversiveness of knowing ourselves whole / by Belser, Julia Watts,1978-author.(CARDINAL)877923;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-264) and index.Claiming disability -- Grappling with the Bible: gender, disability, and God -- Hiddenness and visibility: passing and presenting as disabled -- Ableism: the social-political dimension of disability -- Priestly blemishes: talking back to the Bible's ideal bodies -- Moses: portrait of a disabled prophet -- The land you cannot enter: longing, loss, and other inaccessible terrain -- The perils of healing -- Isaac's blindness: the complexity of trust -- Jacob and the angel: wheels, wings, and the brilliance of disability difference -- The politics of beauty: disability and desire -- The radical practice of rest: Shabbat values and disability justice -- God on wheels: disability theology."A spiritual companion and political manifesto that cuts through objectification and inspiration alike to offer a powerful new account of disability in biblical narrative and contemporary culture"--
Subjects: Disabilities; Disabilities; Disability studies.;
Available copies: 12 / Total copies: 12
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Encyclopedia of disability / by Albrecht, Gary L.(CARDINAL)505997;
Includes bibliographical references and index.v. 1. A-D -- v. 2. E-I -- v. 3. J-R -- v. 4. S-X, master bibliography, index -- v. 5. Primary source documents.
Subjects: Encyclopedias.; People with disabilities; Sociology of disability; Disability studies;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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The Secret Life of Stories : From Don Quixote to Harry Potter, How Understanding Intellectual Disability Transforms the Way We Read / by Berube, Michael F.,1961-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Acknowledgment--Introduction: Stories--Chapter One Motive--Chapter Two Time--Chapter Three Self-Awareness--Conclusion: Minds--About the AuthorNarrative informs everything we think, do, plan, remember, and imagine. We tell stories and we listen to stories, gauging their well-formedness within a couple of years of learning to walk and talk. Some argue that the capacity to understand narrative is innate to our species; others claim that while that might be so, the invention of writing then re-wired our brains. In The Secret Life of Stories, Michael Berube tells a dramatically different tale, in a compelling account of how an understanding of intellectual disability can transform our understanding of narrative. Instead of focusing on characters with disabilities, he shows how ideas about intellectual disability inform an astonishingly wide array of narrative strategies, providing a new and startling way of thinking through questions of time, self-reflexivity, and motive in the experience of reading. Interweaving his own stories with readings of such texts as Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Kingston's The Woman Warrior, and Philip K. Dick's Martian Time-Slip, Berube puts his theory into practice, stretching the purview of the study of literature and the role of disability studies within it. Armed only with the tools of close reading, Berube demonstrates the immensely generative possibilities in the ways disability is deployed within fiction, finding in them powerful meditations on what it means to be a social being, a sentient creature with an awareness of mortality and causality, and sentience itself. Persuasive and witty, Michael Berube engages Harry Potter fans and scholars of literature alike. For all readers, The Secret Life of Stories will fundamentally change the way we think about the way we read.
Subjects: Disability studies.; Narration (Rhetoric); Reading disability.; Sociology of disability.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Education and disability organization study : final report / by North Carolina.Department of Health and Human Services.(CARDINAL)213369;
Subjects: Students with disabilities; Students with disabilities; Boarding schools; Mainstreaming in education; Education and state;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
On-line resources: Suggest title for digitization;
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From the periphery : real-life stories of disability / by Justesen, Pia,author.(CARDINAL)813784; Harkin, Tom,writer of foreword.(CARDINAL)813692;
Includes bibliographical references and index."FROM THE PERIPHERY consists of more than thirty first-person narratives by activists and everyday people who describe what it's like to be treated differently by society because of their disabilities"--
Subjects: Case studies.; Discrimination against people with disabilities; People with disabilities;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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Living with genetic syndromes associated with intellectual disability / by Hogenboom, Marga.(CARDINAL)538049;
Includes bibliographical references and index.An oasis of humanity -- Genes and behaviour -- The first smile -- Down Syndrome: what's in a name? -- Williams Syndrome -- Rubenstein-Taybi Syndrome -- Fragile X Syndrome: a constitutional threshold experience -- Foetal Alcohol Syndrome -- Prader-Willi Syndrome -- Angelman Syndrome -- Angelman and Prader-Willi Syndromes: a polarity -- Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome -- The Sun Cross.
Subjects: Case studies.; People with mental disabilities; Children with mental disabilities; Intellectual disability; Intellect;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Disability and child sexual abuse : lessons from survivors' narratives for effective protection, prevention and treatment / by Higgins, Martina.(CARDINAL)496567; Swain, John,1948-(CARDINAL)718611;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Seven disabled people with telling stories -- Narrative and enabling stories of child sexual abuse -- An abusive society? -- The double whammy effect -- Expressions and survival of pain -- Organisational abuse -- Who abuses and why? -- Collective identities -- Narratives of the narrative -- Conclusion : towards a non-abusive society.
Subjects: Case studies.; Child sexual abuse; Children with disabilities; Parenting.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Parents with intellectual disabilities : past, present and futures / by Llewellyn, Gwynnyth.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Foreword / Steven J. Taylor -- Introduction / Gwynnyth Llewellyn [and others] -- Becoming a mother -- becoming a father / Rachel Mayes and Hanna Björg Sigurjónsdóttir -- Looking back on their own upbringing / Gwynnyth Llewellyn and David McConnell -- Family within a family / Hanna Björg Sigurjónsdóttir and Rannveig Traustadóttir -- Children and their life experiences / Jytte Faureholm -- Understanding community in the lives of parents with intellectual disabilities / Gwynnyth Llewellyn and Marie Gustavsson -- Citizenship and community participation / Brigit Mirfin-Veitch -- Parenting and resistance: strategies in dealing with services and professionals / Rannveig Traustadóttir and Hanna Björg Sigurjónsdóttir -- Parenting education programs / Maurice Feldman -- Supported decision making for women with intellectual disabilities / Sue McGaw and Sue Candy -- Turning policy into practice / Beth Tarleton -- Caught in the child protection net / David McConnell and Hanna Björg Sigurjónsdóttir -- Turning rights into realities in Québec, Canada / Marjorie Aunos, Laura Pacheco, and Katherine Moxness -- Supporting mothers' community participation / David McConnell and Gwynnyth Llewellyn -- Advocacy for change: "the final tool in the toolbox?" / Linda Ward and Beth Tarleton -- Conclusion: Taking stock and looking to the future / David McConnell [and others].This title offers a human rights approach to disability and family life. It is informed by the newly adopted UN Convention of the Rights of the Persons with Disabilities and provides comprehensive research-based knowledge from leading figures in the field of learning disabilities.
Subjects: Parents with mental disabilities; Parenting;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Different dads : fathers' stories of parenting disabled children / by Harrison, Jill,1965-(CARDINAL)483113; Henderson, Matthew,1975-(CARDINAL)483114; Leonard, Rob,1969-(CARDINAL)483115;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Case studies.; Parents of children with disabilities; Father and child; Children with disabilities;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Classroom success for the learning disabled / by Stevens, Suzanne H.,1938-(CARDINAL)509204;
Subjects: Learning disabled children;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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