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Disability and Community.
This volume brings together interdisciplinary scholarship to examine a wide array of issues related to disability and community. Showcasing research framed by a variety of theoretical perspectives and research methodologies, it examines a wide range of social institutions and practices and offers in...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bradford :
Emerald Group Publishing Limited,
2011.
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| Colección: | Research in Social Science and Disability, 6.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Disability and Community; Copyright Page; Contents; List of contributors; Introduction: Disability and Community; The centrality of the concept of community in the social sciences; Community and people with disabilities; References; PART I: PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES IN COMMUNITIES; Bowling together: Foundations of community among youth with disabilities; Method; Four foundations of community; Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References; The student body: The intersection of spatial design, architecture, and cultural policy in university communities; Introduction; Background.
- MethodologyThematic Findings; Taxonomic analysis; Conclusions; References; Families of children with autism and developmental disabilities: a description of their community interaction; Introduction; Theoretical framework; Methods; Findings; Discussion; Acknowledgments; References; Building pediatric multiple sclerosis community using a disability studies framework of empowerment; Introduction; Methodology: Participatory intervention research; Results; Discussion; Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Communities of prosthesis users and possibilities for personal innovation.
- IntroductionThe role of technology in forming communities; Methodology; Results; Discussion; Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Creating a village to raise a child: constructing community in families of children with disabilities; Introduction; Methods; Results; Discussion; References; Crossing borders, pushing boundaries: Disabled refugees' experiences of community and community participation in the USA; Introduction and literature review; Methods; Results; Discussion; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; PART II: MACRO-LEVEL APPROACHES TO DISABILITY AND COMMUNITY.
- The quest for community: Intellectual disability and the shifting meaning of community in activismConceptualizing the community; Community politics in play; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; Same mandate, changing concepts of community: An analysis of bills to mandate Medicaid coverage of community-based attendant services and supports (1997-2010); Introduction; Long-term services, supports, and care in the United States: An overview; Methodological approach; Findings; Community access: Gained and deferred; Notes; Acknowledgments; References.
- The contested meaning of ''community'' in discourses of deinstitutionalization and community living in the field of developmental disabilityIntroduction; Community as ''noninstitutional placements'' for people with developmental disabilities; ''Community'' as more than a negation; Resistance from ''the community'' and the creation of boundaries through insol-exclusion; Deinstitutionalization and community living between reform and abolition; The assimilationist impetus of ''community''; Community as a place, policy or paradigm shiftquest Rethinking ''community living'' today; Notes.