bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Environmental Barriers and the Use of Health Care Facilities by Adults with Physical Disabilities
Authors: Hahn Harlan
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Having Limited Movement: A Personal Account of Physical Disability
Authors: Eisenman Russell
Published: March 2016

The author presents his personal experience with physical disability. For several years there was no accurate diagnosis. Even after the problem was diagnosed the medical treatment was typically limited to the main symptoms and did not involve the whole person or secondary problems such as new physical injury or pain as a result of adjusting to pain and limited movement. Recently, problems with cardiac arteries have been discovered, but - due to physical disability - the author is unable to do the walking that his cardiologist encourages.
Constructing Disability and Social Inequality Early in the Life Course: the case of special education in Germany and the United States
Authors: Powell Justin
Published: March 2016

Joining life course and educational stratification research with disability studies' complimentary emphasis on structure and disabling barriers enables a more complete analysis of the experiences and life chances of primary and secondary school students who are classified disabled. Because the processes that affect life course phases and transitions, as well as individual opportunities, identities, and attainments are cumulative, analysis of early differentiation is necessary to understand how (special) education legitimates and generates social inequality. Universal compulsory education led schools to develop a variety of sorting mechanisms. Especially during the resulting transitions within an educational system's learning opportunity structures, special educational needs are identified, labelled and categorical boundaries drawn around dis/ability altering individuals' trajectories. By stigmatizing, separating, and segregating students, special education institutions in Germany and the United States construct social inequality early in the life course.
John Callahan's Pelswick Cartoon & a New Phase of Disability Humor
Authors: Haller Beth , Ralph Sue
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Hammerin' Hank: The Right to Be Raunchy or FM Freak Show?
Authors: Rosenbaum Stephen
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Beyond Content: Does Humor Help Coping?
Authors: Moran Carmen
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Book & Film Reviews
Authors: Kaplan Mitchell , Haller Beth
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Guest Editors' Introduction
Authors: Dowker Ann , Saunders Kathy , Stemp Jane
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
An Examination into the Portrayal of Deaf Characters and Deaf Issues in Picture Books for Children
Authors: Brittain Isabel
Published: March 2016

This paper examines children's picture books that either feature deaf characters or are aimed at a deaf audience. It is drawn from my Master's thesis An Examination into the Portrayal of Deaf Characters and Deaf Issues in Books for Children (2003), which examined 14primary texts that either feature deaf characters or are aimed at a deaf audience of young readers, those in later childhood and books for adolescents. My observations of books for the youngest readers are presented here. Two types of picture book are considered: those aimed at providing information about what it means to be deaf and those using a combination of pictures, sign symbols and words to tell a story. The methodology arises from two main critical perspectives. The first is Appleyard's theory of the needs of the reader in progressive stages of reader development and the second is based on a summary of the issues that surround the portrayal of "disability". My thesis acknowledges the political, social and cultural issues surrounding definitions of disability and looks at disability as a social rather than a medical issue. It also acknowledges the difference between having a hearing impairment and being part of Deaf culture. My analysis shows that those books that are most successful are shaped by the visual aspect of deaf culture and that these also reflect the narrative desires of the child reader as identified by Appleyard.
What Teachers Never Taught And Writers Feared To Write: Disability in African American Children's Literature
Authors: Daniels Kapria
Published: March 2016

Some African American children's literature reflects the negative stereotypes that are ascribed to individuals with disabilities through the use of implausible, one-dimensional characters that are expected to perform acts of heroism to gain acceptance. The critical use of these and similar texts in educational curriculum is a key step in combating stereotypes about African Americans with disabilities. The impact of established academic institutions on the identity development of African American children with disabilities is discussed.
Butterflies: Youth Literature as a Powerful Tool in Understanding Disability
Authors: Gervay Susanne
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
What Writers Did Next: Disability, Illness and Cure in books in the Second Half of the 20th Century
Authors: Keith Lois
Published: March 2016

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Devices and desires: science fiction, fantasy and disability in literature for young people
Authors: Stemp Jane
Published: March 2016

Characters with disabilities have a surprisingly long history in science and fantasy fiction, but the date of a book's publication is no guide to the manner in which the characters with disabilities are portrayed. This paper studies, from a personal rather than an academic viewpoint, fantasy and science fiction books in the writer's own collection, and discusses some recurrent themes and motifs, with possible reasons for their use.
2D or 3D characters
Authors: Aveling Helen
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
A Non-Neutral Review
Authors: Keith Lois
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Finding Nemo
Authors: Millett Ann
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
The Staff of Oedipus. Transforming Disability in Ancient Greece
Authors: Kuppers Petra
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Detecting Disability: Moving beyond metaphor in the crime fiction of Jeffrey Deaver
Authors: Jakubowicz Andrew , Meekosha Helen
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Kuppers, Petra. Disability and Contemporary Performance: Bodies on Edge.
Authors: Henderson Bruce
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Introduction to Disability and Geography II
Authors: Metzel Deborah , Dorn Michael L.
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
A Disabled Person's Perspective on Euthanasia
Authors: Davis Alison
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
The Decline in Employment of People with Disabilities
Authors: Dinsmore Alan M.
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Exceeding the Frame: The Photography of Diane Arbus
Authors: Millett Ann
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Teaching About Disability: Involving Patients with Disabilities as Medical Educators
Authors: Minihan Paula M. , Bradshaw Ylisabyth S. , Long Linda M. , Altman Wayne , Perduta-Fulginiti Sonya , Ector Jeanette , Foran Karen L. , Johnson Lillian , Kahn Paul , Sneirson Robert
Published: March 2016

No abstract available.
Teaching Across the Continuum: From Disabilities Studies to Public Health Leadership
Authors: Farel Anita M.
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Why the Medical Model Needs Disability Studies (and vice-versa): A Perspective from Rehabilitation Psychology
Authors: Evans Jeffrey E.
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Window Offices — Author's Commentary
Authors: Spratt Adrian
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Schizophrenia, Culture and Subjectivity: The Edge of Experience
Authors: Donaldson Elizabeth
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
We Are Phamaly
Authors: Kumbier Alana
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Gaillard in Deaf America
Authors: Chrisman Wendy L.
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Teaching Medical Students About Communicating with Patients Who Have Sensory or Physical Disabilities
Authors: Iezzoni Lisa , Ramanan Radhika A. , Drews Reed E.
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Commentary on the Poem "Disabled"
Authors: Laird Kerry
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
A Play of Deception
Authors: Johnson Abigail
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Women with Visible and Invisible Disabilities: Multiple Intersections, Multiple Issues, Multiple Therapies
Authors: Widener Donna
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Disability Protests: Contentious Politics 1970-1999
Authors: Kaplan Mitchell
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Information Technology and the Workplace: Implications for Persons with Disabilities
Authors: Bruy Susanne M. , Erickson William E. , Looy Sara Van
Published: March 2016

The Internet improves access to employment and community for many people. However, there is growing concern that many Web sites are inaccessible to people with certain disabilities. This article examines the impact on people with disabilities of online human resources processes used for employee recruitment, benefits, and training. In 2002, Cornell University staff reviewed the accessibility of 10 Job boards and 31 corporate e-recruiting Web sites. Human resource (HR) professionals are well positioned to report on key issues regarding these processes. A survey of 433 HR representatives was conducted regarding their organizations' use of information and Web technology in HR processes; knowledge of computer/Web barriers to employees with disabilities; and familiarity with assistive technology and resources. The authors summarize current literature and legislation relevant to Web accessibility, and discuss implications of their findings for businesses and people with disabilities in the workplace.
Information Technology Attitudes and Behaviors Among Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities Who Use the Internet: Results of a Web-Based Survey
Authors: Cook Judith A. , Fitzgibbon Genevieve , Batteiger Drew , Grey Dennis D. , Caras Sylvia , Dansky Howard , Priester. Frances
Published: March 2016

The purpose of this research was to use Web-based survey methodology to examine the use of information technology (IT) by people with psychiatric disabilities, as well as its association with self-determination in their lives. Survey respondents were recruited via notices posted on mental health listserves and Web sites as well as through newsletters and emails. A total of 911 respondents completed the survey. Respondents reported diverse uses of the Internet, in some cases exceeding usage reported by the general population. A positive association was identified between frequency of Internet use and self-assessed degree of self-determination. In multivariate analyses controlling for demographic variables (including income and education) and impairment indicators (including hospitalization history), those with higher self-determination were significantly less likely to hold negative attitudes about Internet use. Many respondents reported using IT to advocate for themselves, as well as to organize others in groups that can advocate for each other.
Ditching Dualisms: Education Professionals View the Future of Technology and Disabilities
Authors: Claiborne Lise Bird
Published: March 2016

Small groups of educational psychologists, disability educators, and teachers with special education training were interviewed about the likely impact of new technologies for bodily enhancement on their future practice. New theories of embodiment (e.g. Deleuze, Grosz) consider human selves beyond bounded, individual containers. Such ideas also appear in popular media, because films often challenge conventional notions of character and time. To frame the research discussions, three short documentary films were created to present issues that raised questions about dualisms such as nature/nurture and natural/technological. Professionals reflected critically on nature and saw many parallels between different kinds of enhancement, whether mechanistic, chemical, or genetic. Questioning dualistic ideas about nature was also seen as having the potential to alter contemporary views of prosthetics, expanding possibilities for what it means to be human.
Clenched Subjectivity: Disability, Women and Medical Discourse
Authors: Titchkosky Tanya
Published: March 2016

Situated at the intersection of disability and feminist theory, this paper conducts an analysis of a way that women and disability are made meaningful in everyday life. The paper analyzes a seemingly ordinary newspaper story of disability; the story begins by telling of a woman who knowingly remains pregnant with a disabled fetus; goes on to provide statistics of similar cases and ends narrating the lives of families with disabled members. Bypassing the pro-choice/pro-life form of argument, I delve into the newspaper's medicalized textual rendering of disability and women and show how the meanings of both are enacted. I demonstrate the ways that text organizes the reader's consciousness so as to reproduce women as the embodiment of uncontrollable subjectivity and reproduce disability as nothing other than devalued lack. By interrogating the processes involved in medicalizing life through its technologies, the paper exemplifies the socio-political necessity of regarding text as a form of social action in need of critical analysis.
The Hospital Poems
Authors: Wolfe Kathi
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
The Blind (play)
Authors: Kornhaber David
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
The Sea Inside (film)
Authors: McFadden Deanna
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Working Against Odds
Authors: Basas Carrie Griffin
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Performance or Participation...Pluralism or Hegemony? Images of Disability and Gender in Sports 'n Spokes Magazine
Authors: Hardin Marie , Hardin Brent
Published: March 2016

The purpose of this study is to examine the photographic images of Sports 'n Spokes magazine to explore the relationship between sport, disability and gender. Photographs in 24 issues of Sports 'n Spokes were collected and examined via content analysis. A recording instrument was developed by the researchers to code 2,141 editorial images. The instrument was adapted for use with images of disability and the categorical variables were: (a) gender of the subject; (b) disability; (c) type of sport participation; (d) competition in sport; (e) motion; and (f) camera angle. The findings indicate that men dominated photographic coverage in Sports 'n Spokes and were more likely to be depicted in dominant photos and as sports competitors than women. Women were more often depicted as non-sporting, and women were depicted less often as competitors. However, the magazine includes women to a much greater degree than mainstream (able-bodied) sports magazines. The magazine also reflects pleasure/participation (versus power/performance) as a valid sporting value.
Staring at the Other
Authors: Garland-Thomson Rosemarie
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Aesthetic Traces in Unlikely Places: Re-visioning the Freak in 19th-Century American Photography
Authors: Moeschen Sheila
Published: March 2016

Historically conceived as a method of truthfully depicting reality, photography serves a critical function in disseminating knowledge and constructing representations about people, places, and objects. In this essay, I examine the historical role photography has played in generating cultural conceptions of the freak in 19th-century America. By drawing a proximity between medical photographs and sideshow cartes de visites of the physically anomalous, I demonstrate a shared aesthetic tradition between science and the arts that destabilizes elements of power, authority, and control typically associated with the western medical/scientific community. My work demystifies the apparent contradiction between subjectivity and objectivity inherent in early photographic practices to reveal a strategic methodology: a way of playing with the politics of photographic representation to generate meanings for bodies that resist empirical explanation. Here, photography's structures of power and knowledge that imbricate the freak are made transparent, challenging the medium's claims to truth and "reality" that inform its critical status in contemporary American culture.
Biographies of Scale
Authors: Duff Kerry
Published: March 2016

The diverse collection of memoirs, lives, and autobiographies of those who exhibited as freaks in the late 18th and 19th century has often been neglected by scholars or treated as simply source material that describes the way in which these individuals were exhibited. By viewing these texts as performances of subjectivity, this essay considers both the complications that arise in the attempt to construct subjectivity and the rhetorical strategies deployed to negotiate them. The analysis will focus on the narratives of four individuals who exhibited as "midgets" in this period.
Guest Editors' Introduction
Authors: Blanck Peter
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Reforming Medicaid Incentives that Institutionalize People with Disabilities and Destroy Families: A Policy Note
Authors: Giliberti Mary
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Cost and Effectiveness of Accommodations in the Workplace: Preliminary Results of a Nationwide Study
Authors: Hendricks D.J. , Batiste Linda C. , Hirsh Anne , Schartz Helen , Blanck Peter
Published: March 2016

This article provides a description and brief history of the Job Accommodation Network (JAN), a project funded by the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Disability Employment Policy. Preliminary results from JAN's customer satisfaction survey are presented. At present, 778 employers and 882 individuals with disabilities have been interviewed. The findings to date indicate that a broad spectrum of business types use JAN's services. JAN customers reported that implementation of worksite accommodations would significantly reduce the individual's level of limitation due to the disability. Importantly, JAN customers reported having made highly effective accommodations at very little or no cost. Employers who were interviewed said slightly over half (50.5%) of the accommodations they implemented following discussion with JAN had been at no cost. For those employers who did experience some cost, the median dollar value was $600.
A Progressive Law with Weak Enforcement?: An Empirical Study of Hong Kong's Disability Law
Authors: Petersen Carole J.
Published: March 2016

Although Hong Kong's Disability Discrimination Ordinance has been in force since 1996, only a handful of cases have been litigated because the enforcement model encourages confidential conciliation of complaints. This article reports on the first empirical study of Hong Kong's enforcement process, drawing upon a random sample of 451 complaint files and interviews with EOC officers, complainants, representatives of disability rights organizations and respondents. The study reveals weaknesses in the enforcement model and also calls into question the assumption that Chinese complainants will prefer a model based upon conciliation.
Storytelling (film)
Authors: Church David
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Elder Abuse: Selected Papers for the Prague World Congress on Family Violence
Authors: Thornton Cathy
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
My Depression
Authors: Lubet Alex
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Monsters: Human Freaks in America's Guilded Age and Extraordinary Exhibitions
Authors: Garland-Thomson Rosemarie
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Saved! (film)
Authors: Haller Beth
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Speaking of Frieda
Authors: Fleischer Doris Zames
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Litigation Neurosis: Pathological responses or rational subversion?
Authors: Campbell Fiona Kumari
Published: March 2016

Medico-legal literature frequently refers to instances where people with disabilities in the process of undertaking injury related civil litigation acquire what has been rather crudely referred to as "litigation neurosis". Proponents of this pathology argue that the quest for compensation generates malingering. Litigants might remain "sick" because of the "rewards" they are given or are likely to obtain by remaining hyper-disabled by the compensation system. This article discusses the meanings given to such responses and suggests that an alternative reading of "litigation neurosis": as a highly rational act of resistance towards a system that views disablement in a reductionist way, a system that reinforces the notion of disability as personal tragedy. As part of negotiating welfare and legal systems that enumerate disability in terms of deficiency and pathology, tacit knowledges about responses to the government of disability, reveal that disabled people are highly skilled in "recripping" or "decripping" themselves to satify eligibility criteria as well as the expected performances of ableism.
Building Pedagogical Curb Cuts: Incorporating Disability in the University Classroom and Curriculum
Authors: Baglieri Susan
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
The History of Inclusion in the United States
Authors: Eversole Theodore W.
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
When Down Is Up. Life with a Down Syndrome Son
Authors: Fej Boldizs
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Quick Brown Fox
Authors: Davis Halifax Nancy Viva
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Wintering Well
Authors: Obermueller Nancy
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Providing a Place in the New History of Disabilities for Communication Access
Authors: Duchan Judith Felson
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
One Size Does Not Fit All: A Response to Institutionalizing Inequity
Authors: Fierros Edward Garcia
Published: March 2016

In addition to providing a definition for ableism, Fierros addresses the main arguments in Gregg D. Beratan's article entitled, "Institutionalizing Inequity: Ableism, Racism, and IDEA, 2004". Specifically, Fierros presents competing ideas about the appropriateness of inclusion for students with special needs, discusses the notion of the Least Restrictive Environment (LRE) clause as ableist, provides data on the disproportionality of students with special needs, and examines the links between race and ableism. In terms of theory, he suggests that teacher preparation programs educate professionals about institutional ableism and racism. In terms of practice, he urges the use of differentiated instruction to support all students in inclusive settings.
Governing Disability in Austria: Reflections on a changing political field
Authors: Naue Ursula
Published: March 2016

The Austrian Federal Act on the Equalization of Persons with Disabilities (BGStG), a law to facilitate equality, equal rights and opportunities for disabled people, passed the Austrian National Council (Nationalrat) in July 2005. The anti-discrimination law, which came into force at the beginning of 2006, marks the temporary peak of a long-lasting discussion on Austrian disability politics and policy. The debate on the draft and final version of the new law exemplifies the struggle of persons with disabilities against certain attitudes prevalent in the socio-political construction of disability. It also shows how disability policy in Austria has changed in recent years and how different political actors participate in shaping disability policy. This article discusses the problems concerning the actors, strategies and spaces of governing disability in Austria, as articulated in competing narratives that shape the field of disability policy.
The Definition of Disability in (German and) International Discrimination Law
Authors: Degener Theresia
Published: March 2016

This paper is about the issue of defining disability in the context of discrimination law. It reviews the definition of disability in the German disability discrimination laws, the Act on the Equalization of Disabled Persons (Behindertengleichstellungsgesetz, BGG) of 2002 and the new German rehabilitation law which is encapsulated in the Ninth Book of the Social Law Code (Sozialgesetzbuch, Neuntes Buch, SGB IX) of 2001. The main question of this review is whether the respective definitions of disability perpetuate the medical/individual model of disability, or support the social model/human rights model of disability. According to the medical/individual model of disability the problems disabled persons face in their daily life are mainly caused by their impairment, whereas the social/human rights model locates the problems in societal and environmental barriers outside the individual disabled person. The German disability definition is analyzed and evaluated in comparison to a number of selected countries around the world.
Fools: From marvels of nature to asylum inmates. Imaginations of natural folly
Authors: Bernuth Ruth von
Published: March 2016

In medieval and Renaissance times European courts kept fools, who were placed into one of two categories: artificial fools (or jesters) and natural fools. The present study examines natural fools. Extant studies generally treat natural fools as both mentally and physically ill and/or disabled. This study contributes to the discussion of natural folly by examining two sources about the Ernestinian Saxon court fool Claus Narr. According to the documents natural fools were seen as permanently mentally changed people and classified as so-called "wonder men." Therefore they were kept and collected at courts. When permanent mental difference and psychiatric disease amalgamated at the beginning of the 18th century, however, the natural fool became an object of education and medicine. This paper argues that the changing meaning of the natural fool nevertheless retained components of its initial medieval conception.
Queering Disability. Homosexuality in residential facilities for people with mental disabilities
Authors: Dudek Sonja , Jeschke Karin , Lehmkuhl Ulrike
Published: March 2016

This article discusses the subject of how homosexual behavior is dealt with in German residential facilities for people with cognitive disabilities. It is based on empirical data from a qualitative pilot study funded by the German Ministry for Family, Senior Citizens, Women and Youths. Although homosexuality was only a marginal topic of this study, it was frequently mentioned in interviews held with various care workers.[1] The passages of the interviews that deal with the residents' homosexual behavior, therefore, serve as the empirical basis for this exploratory research. Dudek, Jeschke and Lehmkuhl argue that there still is a knowledge deficit concerning homosexuality and cognitive disability in Germany, which can be observed both in theory and in practice. This article begins with a short overview of how cognitive disability and homosexuality are discussed in the special education literature. It then applies ideas and concepts from the field of queer theory to the subject. The empirical data is classified and analyzed in four subcategories: a) Homosexuality is treated as a taboo, b) Homosexuality is devalued, c) Homosexual residents are not supported and d) Homosexuality is not discriminated against. The last section of this article discusses the results of the study and provides ideas and recommendations for practice.
Connect and Conquer: Why teachers should help disabled students connect with resources
Authors: Leibs Andrew
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Rory O'Shea was here
Authors: Haller Beth
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Things No Longer There: A Memoir of Losing Sight and Finding Vision
Authors: Wilson Natalie
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
A tribute to playwright John Belluso
Authors: Stocking Ann
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Ordinary Vessels: Disability Narrative and Representations of Faith
Authors: Mintz Susannah B.
Published: March 2016

The lived experience of disability is increasingly prominent in autobiographical writing. Numerous collections of creative work attest to an expanding market for stories that challenge prevalent stereotypes associated with disability. At the same time, scholars have begun to call for the incorporation into disability studies of poststructuralist critical theory, attempting to extend our understanding of disability beyond both medical and social models. Recent work presents disability as a diverse and ever-changing set of bodies and experiences that eludes any sort of universalizing metanarrative. A further question concerns the convergence in life writing of theory and faith: how do disabled writers interrogate stable identity while also representing religious belief? With close attention to memoirs by Nancy Mairs and Stephen Kuusisto, this paper explores the articulation of "disability theology" by writers committed to challenging the forms of stigma that attach to bodies marked by the difference of disability, as well as bodies generally as they are denigrated by Christianity. Do disability/faith narratives push inevitably toward the resolution of holy reward? Does faith somehow require self-representation as triumphant consciousness, transcending physical failure? How are narratives of spiritual compensation, which tend to suggest that disability can only be endured with the promise of heavenly reparation, inherently problematic from the perspective of disability activism? Conversely, how might narratives that resist cultural pressure to subordinate anomalous bodies to the radiance of the soul or the proficiency of the mind broaden our awareness of the locations and meanings of disability?
The Self-Made Man
Authors: Lee Jason
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Moving over the edge: artists with disabilities take the leap
Authors: Millett Ann
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Facts of Life
Authors: Molloy Harvey
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Economics of disability: An empirical study of disability and employment in the Bangladesh district of Chuadanga
Authors: Chowdhury Jahan , Foley Dermot
Published: March 2016

Depending on a range of social and economic factors, a person who is labeled with a disability and the household where s/he resides face transitions in their financial circumstances- changes that can topple their lives, depriving them of basic human necessities. In this study we examine these circumstances for households in the Chuadanga district in Bangladesh. The impact of being labeled with a disability varies across households and individuals. One objective of this study is to determine which groups are more adversely affected and why. The authors analyze transitions in the lifestyles of other household members, e.g., spouse or dependent parents, owing to labeling of a disability, in order to present the overall change in economic activity of the household. Emphasis is placed on exclusion from full-time paid employment, the burdens of complete caring responsibilities and related opportunity costs, and how compromises are made between employment and care responsibilities. Overall, the paper broadens the analysis from poverty and employment to other aspects of life, including economic responsibility, social participatory preoccupations or coping strategies influenced by being labeled with a disability. Based on this research, the authors find that even if the household is able to retain its previous earnings, increased expenditure resulting from the new situation reduces net earnings to an enormous extent. The labelling of a family member with a disability often hinders the economic well-being of the household. Therefore, the structure of the household should be of great concern when analyzing the impact of disability. All members of an affected household experience a change in their daily activities, be they other earners or dependents, like children, who forego education and may have to contribute to income as well. Having a spouse in these situations can serve as a blessing, as income-earning responsibilities can be shared, but the abrupt changes in quality of life often yield tension between the couple, arising from frustration and helplessness. Often, transitions following the onset of impairment of the main earner being labeled with a disability, result in intense poverty.
Review Essay: Thinking about rights: A Review of Disability Rights
Authors: Macurdy Allan H.
Published: March 2016

Disability Studies is threatened by centrifugal forces that may pull it apart at the seams. As paradoxical as this may sound, the solution to maintaining Disability Studies as an independent and, indeed, coherent academic discipline is to re-contextualize Disability Studies within the broader trends in contemporary academe, the history of social movements in the USA, and the struggle for universal enfranchisement. To illustrate this point, I will: Draw connections between my own experiences with disabilities as a person, a student, an educator, and now a newcomer to Disability Studies; make comparisons to the now defunct Program in Comparative Culture at the University of California, Irvine; and, I will critique some presentations given at two recent Disability Studies conferences hosted by The Ohio State University (OSU). My purpose, however, is not to challenge these presenters' scholarship; rather, it is to illustrate the centrifugal forces that I see already at work within Disability Studies.
A Statistical Note on the Religiosity of Persons with Disabilities
Authors: Hendershot Gerry
Published: March 2016

Indicators of the religiosity of persons with and without disability are compared using statistics from the National Survey of Family Growth, which represents community-dwelling persons of reproductive age in the U.S. It is found that persons with disabilities are less likely than persons without disabilities to attend religious services and less likely to report that religion is important in their daily lives.
Signs of the Times: Theological Themes in the Changing Forms of Ministries and Spiritual Supports with People with Disabilities
Authors: Gaventa William
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Sparrows on Wheels
Authors: Cheu Johnson
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Entrepreneurship, Self-Employment and Disabilities
Authors: Holloway Linda
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
The Puzzle Club: Brain Injury Survivors Talk and The Making of the Puzzle Club
Authors: Neu Denese M.
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Editor's Introduction
Authors: Kuusisto Stephen
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Say It Ain't So
Authors: Kuusisto Stephen
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Performance and Digital Communication
Authors: Rains Scott
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Blogging brings more of us to the table
Authors: Goldfish The
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
The Dining in the Dark Phenomenon
Authors: Saerberg Siegfried
Published: March 2016

In the last fourteen years in Europe, a phenomenon has developed that I call "Dining in the Dark." Its primary success has been to promote communication between blind and sighted people -- through a mediation process (rather than any simulation of blindness) -- and to show how a disabling society constructs blindness-related problems. Second, it demonstrates real possibilities available to blind people and to the ways a more enabling society could accommodate their needs and skills. Third, the phenomenon has enhanced self-confidence among blind and visually disabled food-service workers. But such "demonstrations" raise questions about how best to design and structure future events, and whether "Dining in the Dark" as for-profit businesses are also successful at mediating blindness. I also consider whether "Dining in the Dark" events function as modern-day, acceptable "freak shows." Finally, I suggest how the concept of liminality can help us better understand and interpret these phenomenon and their achievements.
Cultural Commentary: Cream Cheese, Potato Chips, and the Anger in an Egg Salad Sandwich
Authors: Kudlick Catherine
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Cultural Commentary: Food And Hunger, excerpt from the CD "Lest We Forget..." (transcript)
Authors: Moyer Jeff
Published: March 2016

No abstract available.
Personal Assistance Services (PAS) for Workers with Disabilities: Views and Experiences of Rehabilitation Service Providers
Authors: Misra Sita , Orslene Louis E. , Walls Richard T.
Published: March 2016

Personal Assistance Services (PAS) are defined as person-to-person services to assist people with disabilities with tasks they would perform if they did not have a disability. Traditionally, these services have focused on health care and activities of daily living. There has been minimal use of PAS in promoting employment and economic independence of people with disabilities. Research was conducted to determine the experiences and perceptions of rehabilitation service providers on the provision of PAS in the workplace. The study focused on (a) the definitional problems surrounding workplace PAS, (b) accessibility to PAS at the workplace, and (c) availability of resources (money and trained personal assistants). Views and experiences of rehabilitation service providers obtained through focus groups and a mail survey are presented. The rehabilitation service providers indicated that the success of providing PAS depended on establishing a strong, positive relationship with employers. Barriers to providing work-related PAS included lack of qualified assistants, transportation, and employers' lack of understanding of PAS.
The Operation
Authors: Luczak Raymond
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
'With Your Shield, or On It': Disability Representation in 300
Authors: Chemers Michael M.
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Mental Hygiene and Disability in the Zionist Project
Authors: Sufian Sandy
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Inclusive City Life: Persons with Disabilities and the Politics of Difference
Authors: Prince Michael J.
Published: March 2016

From a disability perspective, what might a vision for the "good city" look like at the start of the twenty-first century? What does the idea of "inclusive city life" mean? This paper argues that the city is under-theorized by Disability Studies, and therefore suggests the field needs to reflect more about city life; examine the interconnections between urban settlement and disablement; and imagine the possibilities, within specific social contexts, for enhanced inclusion and citizenship in city spaces. I use Michael Ignatieff's work on the solidarity of strangers and Iris Marion Young's conception of city life as "a being together of strangers in openness to group differences" to examine ideas about social differences, democratic politics, and inclusion in the public realms of urban Canada.
Best Practices in Promoting Disability Inclusion Within Canadian Schools of Social Work
Authors: Dunn Peter , Hanes Roy , Hardie Susan , Leslie Donald , MacDonald Judy
Published: March 2016

The profession of social work has a long history of work with "clients" with disabilities, but unfortunately, this history often has not included strong advocacy for their rights and creating a place as colleagues within Schools of Social Work (Dunn, Hanes and MacDonald, 2003). From a critical disability perspective and a view of disability as being socially constructed, the profession and its educational institutions need to rethink their approach to students, faculty and staff with disabilities (May & Raske, 2005). Best practices in accessibility, accommodation and inclusivity will be explored within Canadian Schools of Social Work. Knowledge shared in this article was derived from a critical review of the literature, a survey of Schools of Social Work in Canada (Dunn, Hanes, Hardie, and MacDonald, 2006), and a National Best Practices conference (Dunn, Hanes, Hardie, Leslie, and MacDonald, J, 2004). Disability inclusion within Schools of Social Work is explored in five main areas: 1) recruitment and admissions; 2) accommodation; 3) curriculum; 4) field placements; and 5) retention, graduation and meaningful employment. While the specific focus is on social work education the principles and practices can be applied to other disciplines within the academy and beyond.
Shared Values, Networks, and Trust among Canadian Consumer-Driven Disability Organizations
Authors: Arai Susan , Hutchison Peggy , Pedlar Alison , Lord John , Sheppard Val
Published: March 2016

This article focuses on the development of social capital among consumer-driven disability organizations in Canada. A new social movement focuses on issues of identity, quality of life and the lifestyle of people within the movement rather than solely on rights, income security and provisions of the welfare state. Reported here are survey findings revealing the network and values that form the relationship between four national consumer-driven disability organizations (Council of Canadians with Disabilities, the Canadian Association of Independent Living Centres, People First of Canada, and the National Network for Mental Health) and their member or affiliate organizations. Study results reveal features within the new social movement that contribute to, and diminish, social capital, including issues around the development of shared values, establishment of networks and supports within an atmosphere of trust and mutuality. Study findings expand on the mobilizing and political capacity found among consumer-driven disability organizations in Canada.
Review of The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin's Theory by Kenny Fries
Authors: Lambeth Laurie Clements
Published: March 2016

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Poems
Authors: Lambeth Laurie
Published: March 2016

Title(s): Past Forgetting
Poem
Authors: Lee Charles Jason
Published: March 2016

Title(s): Dad's Army

Charles Jason Lee is the author of The Metaphysics of Mass Art (Mellen, 1999) and Pervasive Perversions (Free Association Books, 2005). His poetry collections include The Day Elvis Died, Polaroid Noise, and God's Potato Peeler. Lee has taught at the universities of Central Lancashire, Essex, East London, and St Martin's College.
Alexithymia among Orthodox Jews: The Role of Object Relations, Family Emotional Expressiveness, and the Presence of a Disabled Sibling
Authors: Pollak Shulamis , Freeman Joy E.
Published: March 2016

To what extent does the presence of a sibling with disabilities result in diminished capacity to experience and express emotionality? The purpose of this study was to discern whether the presence of a sibling with disabilities in Orthodox Jews promotes alexithymia over and above the hypothesized effects of psychological health in one's family of origin and level of object relations. Data analysis from 136 respondents showed that alexithymia was predicted by Object Relations (particularly Social Incompetence) and the emotional expressiveness of one's family of origin. Sibling disability did not predict alexithymia. It appears that the presence of a sibling with disabilities does not present a challenge to emotional expressiveness beyond the effects of familial and personality determinants. Results are discussed from the perspective of Object Relations theory in the context of the contemporary sociology of Orthodox Judaism, with a particular focus on the experience of having a sibling with disabilities. Clinical implications and suggestions for further study are presented.
Sit (or Stand) and Be Counted! Campaigning for the Voting Rights of People with Disabilities in Lebanon
Authors: Wehbi Samantha , El-Lahib Yahya
Published: March 2016

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Cultural Commentary: Pre-agreed Criteria for the Subject Matter
Authors: Berg Susanne
Published: March 2016

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Historical Thinking and Disability History
Authors: Nielsen Kim E.
Published: March 2016

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The American Historical Association Task Force on Disability
Authors: Doyle Debbie Ann
Published: March 2016

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Disability Studies in Japan: An Introduction
Authors: Suzuki Maho
Published: March 2016

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Cultural Commentary: Critical Understanding of the Special Support Education in Social Contexts
Authors: Goto Yoshihiko
Published: March 2016

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Zola Award Winner: "I Ain't Had Much Schooling": The Ritual of the Examination and the Social Construction of Impairment
Authors: Rembis Michael
Published: March 2016

In this article, Rembis uses case files and other records from the state training school for girls in Geneva, Illinois, as well as published studies of female juvenile delinquents, to analyze the psychological evaluation of inmates from the perspective of both female experts and their female subjects. Throughout the first half of the twentieth century, experts conducting research at Geneva consistently argued that an overwhelmingly high percentage of its inmates were "feebleminded" or "mentally defective." Analyzing the testing that occurred at Geneva reveals not only the importance of eugenics and other psy discourses in the construction of mental "defect," but also the contestation, negotiation, and redefinition that undergirded the formation of historically contingent definitions of impairment. Many disability theorists and activists have viewed impairment as a prediscursive state of being, as politically neutral, given, natural, and timeless. As this article shows impairment is not ahistorical. It too has a history, a genealogy. The ritual of modern psychological examination was a critical new modality of power that greatly affected the lives of its subjects; the examiner observed, measured, recorded, defined, and treated, all through a process in which power relations between scientist and subject were far from equal, but the ritual of the exam did afford its subjects some room for negotiation and redefinition. Young women incarcerated at Geneva actively participated in the examination and in the formation of their own individuality, and in some cases affected not only their own lived experience, but also dominant perceptions of "mental defect" and eugenic commitment.
Two Poems
Authors: Simpson Daniel
Published: March 2016

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Vision, Passion, Action: Reflections on Learning to do Disability Studies in the Classroom and Beyond
Authors: Paterson Jennifer , Hogan Jessica , Willis Heather
Published: March 2016

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Inclusion vs. Seclusion: A Review of Looking after Louis by Lesley Ely
Authors: Hirad Hila , Vidali Amy
Published: March 2016

This review focuses on the messages embedded within both images and text in children's picture books. It includes a thorough analysis of Looking after Louis by Lesley Ely, detailing how its illustrations and text sometimes contradict each other, creating a complicated representation of integrated education. "Inclusion vs. Seclusion" argues that while the book attempts to offer a positive portrayal of disability in the elementary classroom, its images and text convey a negative portrayal of disability, distancing a child with a disability from his/her peers. By comparing this picture book with another closely related text, this review examines the possible effects Looking after Louis might have on young readers.
Autism: The Lived Experience
Authors: Bowen Kerry , Foss Chris
Published: March 2016

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Let's Talk About Sex…and Disability Baby!
Authors: Albertz Megan , Lewiecki-Wilson Cynthia
Published: March 2016

This paper explores male and female perspectives on disability and sexuality. The topic of male disability and sexuality focuses mainly on men who have spinal cord injuries and use wheelchairs, and though important, this focus is due to the fact that not much information pertaining to men with other disabilities and their sexual experiences is available. The female section mostly concerns the abuse of women with disabilities, because they are seen as vulnerable by society. This paper is not a manual about sex for people with disabilities, but it discusses many of the fallacies that society has about people with disabilities and their sexualities.