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Understanding Disability Inclusion, Access, Diversity, and Civil Rights
Paul T. Jaeger, Cynthia Ann Bowman
ISBN: 0-313-36178-9
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-36178-4
184 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 10/30/2008
List Price: $20.00 (UK Sterling Price: £13.95)
Availability: Print on demand
Media Type: Paperback
Also Available: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • [O]ffers a holistic understanding of the lives of disabled individuals, from representations in the media to issues of civil rights....Understanding Disability is designed to educate and inform readers about the social roles of disability.
    —Library Media Connection     August/September 2005
  • This long-overdue book is exactly what is needed for an introductory course in disability studies. The text is well researched and readable, and even has an international perspective. It is also instructive for those who may have doubts about the academic legitimacy of disability studies and its focus on interdisciplinarity. That is, Jaeger and Bowman have managed to document the breadth and depth of the global inquiry into disability and its meaning in law, recreation, medicine, social life, economics, politics, media, immigration to the US, and technology....Highly recommended. All levels/libraries.
    —Choice     3/1/2006
Description: Disability is rarely considered a social issue. Scholars tend to discuss it in the abstract; medical personnel view it as a health issue; and legal concerns for the disabled focus on how to advocate or protect organizations against demands for accommodation. As a result, disabled individuals are seen as bits and pieces of everyone's constituency but their own. The writers of this work, both having long personal experiences with disabilities, offer a holistic understanding of the lives of disabled individuals from representations in the media to issues of civil rights.

Written to educate and inform readers about the social roles of disability, this accessible and informative work addresses: social classifications of disability; social reactions to disability; legal rights and classifications of persons with disabilities; issues of accessibility to information and communication technologies; representations of disability in a range of media, including literature, painting, film, televsion and advertising; and major issues shaping the comtemporary social roles of persons with disabilities. By examining the social roles of disability in the past and present from a range of perspectives and disciplines, this book reveals a portrait of the social place, limitations, and rights of persons with disabilities.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
    Introduction: The Goals of this Book
    The Social Lives of Disability
    The Roles of Disability in Society
    Social Classifications of and Reactions to Disability
    Disability Discrimination and the Evolution of Legal Rights in Democratic Societies
    Trying to Come to America: An Illustration of the Classifications of Disability in United States Immigration Law and Policy
    Access and Accessibility
    Physical Access, Intellectual Access, and Access in Society
    Access and Classifications of Disability in Legal Discourse
    Accessibility and Technology in Application: Unequal Access Online
    Social Representations of Disability
    The Social Significance of the Representation of Disability
    Representations of Disability across Media
    "Nothing About Us Without Us"
    The Future of Disability in Society
    Future Social Issues for Persons with Disabilities
    Disability Culture in a Non-disabled Society
    References
    About the Authors
About the Author: Paul T. Jaeger is Manager for Research Development Information Use Management and Policy Institute, Florida State University. His publications have addressed issues of disability law and accessibility, information access, education, electronic government, and information policy and law. He is co-author of A Guide to High School Success for Students with Disabilities, Greenwood, 2005 and Disability Matters: Legal and Pedagogical Issues of Disability in Education Bergin & Garvey/Praeger, 2002.

Cynthia Ann Bowman is Associate Professor Literacy Education, Ashland University, OH. She is President-Elect of the Ohio Council of Teachers of English Language Arts and the author of numerous publications on teaching and technology. She is co-author of A Guide to High School Success for Students with Disabilities, Greenwood, 2005 and Disability Matters: Legal and Pedagogical Issues of Disability in Education Bergin & Garvey/Praeger, 2002. She is also the editor of Using Literature to Help Troubled Teenagers Cope with Health Issues, Greenwood, 2000.
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