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Author : Floyd W. Matson
Publisher : National Federation of Blind
Page : 1140 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015019556714
Author : James H. Omvig
Publisher : IAP
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781607524731
This book recounts the dramatic story of the transformation of the Iowa Commission for the Blind from a verifiably ineffective service agency to perhaps the most outstanding and effective adult service program in the nation in the span of 10 short years. What happened in Iowa was revolutionary, and the character of work with the blind in America and around the world was altered forever—the alternative civil rights–based service model worked. Using Kenneth Jernigan's own writings of Board meeting minutes, reports, and letters, I present the details of the remarkable story from an activist's point of view. This book will certainly be of interest to those who work in the field of blindness, particularly those who work in agencies serving the blind, but this book is more than just a study in public administration. Omvig's research fills in significant gaps in the history of the blind movement and offers the reader a front-row seat to a pivotal moment in blind history. — Brian Miller, University of Iowa
Author : Ed Vaughan,James H. Omvig
Publisher : IAP
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781607526742
In this book we are interested in patterns of education, rehabilitation service, socialization, and ideas about blindness that in large part produce the above-mentioned distinct patterns. We will examine the economic interests of professional groups and the patterns of domination and subordination, which are present in most rehabilitation relationships. Our central tenet is that the behavior of blind people is not a product of the physical condition of blindness or the amount of residual vision a blind person has. Rather, the behavior of blind people in our society is governed by socialization. Blindness is a social problem arising from erroneous, socially constructed negative beliefs about the capacities of blind people involuntarily assimilated from the broader society by the blind. People learn to live independently or they learn to be dependent. The reactions of parents, teachers, peers, the health professionals, rehabilitation counselors and the general public have defined the choices available to blind people. This is the case in every culture and society around the world. Differences result from different cultural values, levels of economic development, and historical traditions.
Author : Ronald J. Ferguson
Publisher : Information Age Publishing
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Blind
ISBN : UOM:39015069299074
This book has been a work in progress. In the spring of 2000 I started this project and began to collect data and conduct interviews. I copied every article I could find in the Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness and its predecessors Outlook for the Blind and New Outlook for the Blind. I was fortunate to locate Blindness the annual publication of the American Association of Workers for the Blind. One of the greatest finds was the library at the American Foundation for the Blind. The library contains dozens of volumes related to orientation and mobility. Within two years I had amassed a considerable collection of resources. I began working through the materials and along the way prepared some papers for various conferences. A dramatic increase in administrative responsibilities, as well as the tyranny of meeting grant deadlines, diverted me from giving concentrated effort to this book. All that changed as I reduced my workload in order to devote almost all my efforts over the past nine months to this project.
Author : Paul K. Longmore,Lauri Umansky
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2001-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814785645
A glimpse into the struggle of the disabled for identity and society's perception of the disabled traces the disabled's fight for rights from the antebellum era to present controversies over access.
Author : Gary L Albrecht,Sharon L. Snyder,Jerome Bickenbach,David T. Mitchell,Walton O. Schalick, III
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 2937 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780761925651
Collects over one thousand entries that provide insight into international views, experiences, and expertise on the topic of disability.
Author : Robert V. Hine
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520919129
He knew he was going blind. Yet he finished graduate school, became a history professor, and wrote books about the American West. Then, nearly fifty, Robert Hine lost his vision completely. Fifteen years later, a risky eye operation restored partial vision, returning Hine to the world of the sighted. "The trauma seemed instructive enough" for him to begin a journal. That journal is the heart of Second Sight, a sensitively written account of Hine's journey into darkness and out again. The first parts are told simply, with little anguish. The emotion comes when sight returns; like a child he discovers the world anew—the intensity of colors, the sadness of faces grown older, the renewed excitement of sex and the body. With the understanding and insights that come from living on both sides of the divide, Hine ponders the meaning of blindness. His search is enriched by a discourse with other blind writers, humorist James Thurber, novelist Eleanor Clark, poet Jorge Luis Borges, among others. With them he shares thoughts on the acceptance and advantages of blindness, resentment of the blind, the reluctance with sex, and the psychological depression that often follows the recovery of sight. Hine's blindness was the altered state in which to learn and live, and his deliverance from blindness the spur to seek and share its lessons. What he found makes a moving story that embraces all of us—those who can see and those who cannot.
Author : Maria Cristina Galmarini
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501773785
Ambassadors of Social Progress examines the ways in which blind activists from the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe entered the postwar international disability movement and shaped its content and its course. Maria Cristina Galmarini shows that the international work of socialist blind activists was defined by the larger politics of the Cold War and, in many respects, represented a field of competition with the West in which the East could shine. Yet, her study also reveals that socialist blind politics went beyond propaganda. When socialist activists joined the international blind movement, they initiated an exchange of experiences that profoundly impacted everyone involved. Not only did the international blind movement turn global disability welfare from philanthropy to self-advocacy, but it also gave East European and Soviet activists a new set of ideas and technologies to improve their own national movements. By analyzing the intersection of disability and politics, Ambassadors of Social Progress enables a deeper, bottom-up understanding of cultural relations during the Cold War. Galmarini significantly contributes to the little-studied history of disability in socialist Europe, and ultimately shows that disability activism did not start as an import from the West in the post-1989 period, but rather had a long and meaningful tradition that was rooted in the socialist system of welfare and needed to be reinvented when this system fell apart.
Author : Gerard Goggin,Christopher Newell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0742518442
Media representation of and for the disabled has been recharged in recent years with the expansion of new media worldwide. Interactive digital communications -- such as the Interact, new varieties of voice and text telephones, and digital broadcasting -- have created a need for a more innovative understanding of new media and disability issues. This engaging analysis offers a global perspective on how people with disabilities are represented as users, consumers, viewers, or listeners of new media, by policymakers, corporations, programmers, and the disabled themselves.
Author : Dawn O. Braithwaite,Teresa L. Thompson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1999-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135675806
Each chapter provides a state-of-the-art literature review, practical applications of the material, and key words and discussion questions to facilitate classroom use."--Jacket.
Author : Jacqueline Vaughn Switzer,Jacqueline Vaughn
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780878408986
"Freedom and Justice for all" is a phrase that can have a hollow ring for many members of the disability community in the United States. Jacqueline Vaughn Switzer gives us a comprehensive introduction to and overview of U.S. disability policy in all facets of society, including education, the workplace, and social integration. Disabled Rights provides an interdisciplinary approach to the history and politics of the disability rights movement and assesses the creation and implementation, successes and failures of the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by federal, state and local governments. Disabled Rights explains how people with disabilities have been treated from a social, legal, and political perspective in the United States. With an objective and straightforward approach, Switzer identifies the programs and laws that have been enacted in the past fifty years and how they have affected the lives of people with disabilities. She raises questions about Congressional intent in passing the ADA, the evolution and fragmentation of the disability rights movement, and the current status of disabled people in the U.S. Illustrating the shift of disability issues from a medical focus to civil rights, the author clearly defines the contemporary role of persons with disabilities in American culture, and comprehensively outlines the public and private programs designed to integrate disabled persons into society. She covers the law's provisions as they apply to private organizations and businesses and concludes with the most up-to-date coverage of recent Supreme Court decisions-especially since the 2000-2002 terms-that have profoundly influenced the implementation of the ADA and other disability policies. For activists as well as scholars, students, and practitioners in public policy and public administration, Switzer has written a compassionate, yet powerful book that demands attention from everyone interested in the battle for disability rights and equality in the United States.
Author : Peter Blanck
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351943963
There is great diversity of definitions, causes and consequences of discrimination against persons with disabilities, yet there are fundamental themes uniting countries in their pursuit of human rights policies to improve the social and economic status of those with disabilities. In this volume are twenty-five important articles examining historical, contemporary and comparative issues crucial to the advancement of disability rights. The volume foreshadows the future of disability rights as a medium for ensuring that those living with disabilities participate as equal citizens of the world.
Author : Helen Keller
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2005-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780814758298
Here is Helen Keller's endlessly fascinating life in all its variety: from intimate personal correspondence to radical political essays, from autobiography to speeches advocating the rights of disabled people.
Author : Donnalyn Pompper
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781783506781
Practical and Theoretical Implications of Successfully Doing Difference in Organizations is a book for managers and researchers passionate about follow-through on promises of workplace diversity across social identity dimensions, including age, class, culture, ethnicity, faith, gender, physical/psychological ability, sexual orientation, and more.
Author : Nancy L. Burns
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781440154096
It was the late 1940s when a tall, skinny sixth-grader picked up a shiny object off the ground in her small Missouri town and became the victim of a tragic circumstance an explosive left carelessly behind took away her vision and changed her forever. With a quietly inspirational style, Nancy Burns shares her poignant life experiences as a blind woman with the hope of educating and enlightening others about certain societal misconceptions and attitudes regarding those who are disabled. Beginning with the moment when she woke up in the hospital both eyes bandaged and realized she would not receive the emotional comfort and guidance she so desperately needed, Burns offers a compelling glimpse into the fulfilling world she created for herself, despite her disability. Her personal story chronicles her struggles as a young girl learning to live with her vision loss, her family's inability to acknowledge her disability, and her determined journey to acquire the skills that led her to eventually become a vocational counselor who worked with disabled clients. In Once Upon a Challenge: Hearing is Believing Burns offers an important message the way one chooses to live with challenges becomes the key to success in life.