Disability: Social Aspects
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Health & Wellness of People with Disabilities
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£163.99| /The Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) within the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) uses research, policy analysis, and the development and...
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Housing for People with Diabilities
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£292.99| /This book looks at the state of housing for people with disabilities with the intent to provide recommendations that can improve housing opportunit...
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HUD Housing Programs for Persons with Disabilities
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£52.99| /This book explores the ability of persons with disabilities to live independently in affordable, accessible housing. This became a prominent issue ...
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Human Development
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£115.99| /Research studies have examined the relationship between working memory, cognitive skills, and academic abilities. However, while some studies and s...
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Individuals with Disabilities
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£172.99| /Since the enactment of P.L. 94-142, the predecessor legislation to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), in 1975, the federal gov...
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Intellectual Disability
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£221.99| /Intellectual disability is characterised by deficits in cognitive and adaptive abilities that initially manifest before 18 years of age. The preval...
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Leaders, Visionaries & Dreamers
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£61.99| /This book is an in-depth look at 12 incredible people with LD and dyslexia whose lives are characterised by major accomplishments and contributions...
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Learning Disabilities in English Language Learners
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£163.99| /No single method has proven effective in differentiating between English learner students who have difficulty acquiring language skills and those w...
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Life Skills Instruction in a Time of Accountability
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£48.99| /The legislation, No Child Left Behind, mandates that students with intellectual disabilities have access to core curriculum courses. This book inve...
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Livable Communities for People with Psychiatric Disabilities
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£61.99| /This book introduces several programs and guidelines that would help to provide housing, employment, and other services to adults with psychiatric ...
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Making it Work
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£292.99| /For Americans with disabilities, no less than for all other citizens, the opportunity to earn a living and be self-supporting is a universally held...
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New Research on Assistive Technologies
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£159.99| /Over the past decade, several studies have shed light on how the Ambient Assistive Technology (AAT) may increase the life expectancy of older adult...
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New Voices from Iceland
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£92.99| /This book presents a study of the perspectives and experiences of 36 disabled young adults, some of their parents, teachers and friends, on coming ...
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Non-Visual Landscape
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-VerlagOriginal price £27.99Current price £23.90| /Landscape is the impression given by a place. The five senses construct five landscapes: there is not only the visual landscape but also non-visual...
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Pain & the Elderly
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£212.99| /Pain is a common issue among the elderly. Common causes of pain in this population include angina, arthritis, bone and joint disorders, neuropathie...
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Pain Management Yearbook 2009
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£358.99| /This book examines the issue of pain in individuals with intellectual disabilities by introducing the topic as well as suggesting a model for pain ...
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Physical Disabilities
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£97.99| /Physical disabilities are impairments which limit an individual's physical function. This book reviews risk factors and the affect physical disabil...
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Politics of Blindness
Granville Island Publishing (CA)£17.99| /This book examines the conventional approaches to numerous problems that affect people who are blind (such as education, Braille literacy, economic...
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Portrait of the Artist's Mother
Spinifex Press£17.95| /I am seen by many as a danger. As having failed to understand the new rules, the new paradigm of successful motherhood. A memoir and an examination...
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Postsecondary Students with Disabilities
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£69.99| /Students with disabilities face several longstanding challenges accessing services that may assist them as they transition from high school into po...
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Quadriplegia
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£97.99| /Quadriplegia is a consequence of cervical spinal cord injury resulting in the significant loss of physiological function; both sensory and motor. O...
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Quality of Life and Intellectual Disability
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£92.99| /We all long for a life of purpose and fulfillment. Striving for high quality of life for us and those we care for is a powerful motivator. Many bus...
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Recent Advances on Using Virtual Reality Technologies for Rehabilitation
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£203.99| /In recent years, there has been a blossoming use of advanced technologies across a wide range of applications in the general area of health care an...
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Rehabilitation
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£185.99| /Virtual rehabilitation has been the focus of considerable research for many years, but the recent upsurge in consumer-ready virtual reality hardwar...
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Shut Away
Goose Lane Editions£17.99| /An explosive book that exposes the abuses of institutionalization."How many brothers and sisters do you have?" It was one of the first questions ki...
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Social Security Disability Programs
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£163.99| /Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) is a social insurance program that provides benefits to insured workers under the full retirement age w...
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Special Education
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£203.99| /The authors of this book discuss the latest developments in special education research. The chapters included examine the three main components of ...
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Strategies for Serving Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Recipients with Disabilities
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£261.99| /Policymakers and program operators have long worked to understand how state and federal programs can best serve low-income families in which one pa...
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Sugar Ride
Palimpsest Press£15.99| /For three months Yvonne Blomer travelled by bike with her husband Rupert Gadd through Southeast Asia. A type one diabetic since childhood, she also...
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Take It Lying Down
Paul Dry Books (US)£17.99| /Six months shy of retirement and on a family vacation in Mexico, Jim Linnell steps off the porch of a rented guest house and breaks his neck. He is...
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Technology's Impact on Employment Opportunities for People with Disabilities
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£194.99| /This book examines the importance of social media and other information technologies in connecting people to job opportunities. Not surprisingly, d...
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Technology, Rehabilitation & Empowerment of People with Special Needs
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£243.99| /The digitalization of society is spreading around the world and technology has become part of many people's daily lives. It acts as a means of comm...
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The Visually Disabled and the Elderly in the Age of IC Technologies
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£185.99| /This volume presents a survey of technological innovations that enhance both the learning processes and the living conditions of individuals who li...
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Therapeutic Physical Activities for People with Disability
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£287.99| /Physical inactivity has been recognised as one of the common modifiable risk factors for non-communicable diseases such as heart disease, stroke, c...
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Towards Best Practices for Surveying People with Disabilities, Volume 1
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£163.99| /The chapters in this book focus on three central themes: Current Challenges in Survey Development for People with Disabilities; Strategies to Promo...
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Transition to Retirement
Sydney University Press£16.99| /The Transition to Retirement (TTR) program aims to help older people with long-term disability gradually build an active and socially inclusive ret...
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