Product Description: This book brings together formally disparate literatures and debates on disability and technology in a way that captures the complex interplay between the two. Drawing on disability studies, technology studies and clinical studies, the book argues that interdisciplinary insights together provide a more nuanced and less stylized picture of the benefits and barriers in disability and technology...read more

Routledge Handbook Of Disability Studies-T&F/ROUTLEDGE-Watson,N., Roulstone,A.-2012-EDN-1

Product Description: Geographies of disability have become a key research priority for many disability scholars and geographers. This edited collection, incorporating the work of leading international disability researchers, seeks to expand the current geographical frame operating within the realm of disability...read more

Product Description: This is the first book on working with disabled people to take an aspirational, outcomes-focused approach to professional practice. It forms the first attempt to grapple with the massive legislative and policy shifts in the disability field in the last 15 years and provides an up-to-date, positive approach to professional practice, based on the social model of disability...read more

Product Description: It is a great pleasure to share with you the Springer CCIS 111 proceedings of the Third World Summit on the Knowledge Society––WSKS 2010––that was organized by the International Scientific Council for the Knowledge Society, and supported by the Open Research Society, NGO, (http://www...read more

Product Description: Working futures? looks at the current effectiveness and future scope for enabling policy in the field of disability and employment. By addressing the current strengths and weaknesses of disability and employment policy, the book asks Is the dichotomy of 'work for those who can and support for those who cannot' appropriate to the lives of disabled people? Does current and recent policy reduce or reinforce barriers to paid employment? What lessons from other welfare regimes can we draw on to further disabled people's working futures? The book is original in bringing together a wide range of policy insights to bear on the question of disabled people's working futures...read more

Product Description: To date, studies of disabled people and employment have mainly focused on barriers to gaining and maintaining employment. This report breaks new ground in asking: how do those disabled people who are already in work get and keep paid work?Written in an accessible style, the report:·[vbTab]details the strategies disabled people use to thrive and survive at work;·[vbTab]exposes the employment difficulties disabled people face in work environments designed by and for non-disabled people;·[vbTab]looks at the policy context in which disabled people maintain paid work;·[vbTab]draws on the experiences related by disabled people themselves; ·[vbTab]frames questions in terms of the issues that are important to disabled workers...read more

Product Description: *What is the significance of new microchip technologies for disabled workers/job seekers?*How is new technology enabling some disabled workers to gain enhanced access to employment and a more enabling employment?*What are the policy implications of the research findings and the reevaluation of the role of new technology?There is much evidence to suggest that disabled people are less likely to be afforded the same rights as able-bodied workers in accessing jobs, equal employment rights and equal access to the workplace...read more

Product Description: Book by Roulstone, Alan, Roulstone, Michael