Disability: Social Aspects
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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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U.S. Currency & the Blind & Visually Impaired
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£194.99| /All blind and many persons with low vision are unable to distinguish currency denominations without assistance. The U.S. District Court for the Dis...
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United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities & U.S. Ratification Issues
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£168.99| /During the 113th Congress, the Senate might consider providing its advice and consent to ratification of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Perso...
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Virtual Reality
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£97.99| /In recent years, humanity has seen a trend towards the use of virtual reality (VR) technologies for rehabilitation and disability support. This is ...
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Virtual Reality
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£212.99| /The use of virtual reality for learning, training, and rehabilitation for people with special needs has been on the rise in recent years. Virtual r...
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Virtual Reality
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£168.99| /Over the past twenty years, groups of therapists, researchers and engineers have seized the potential of virtual reality (VR) and its associated te...
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Work & Play for the Disabled
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£115.99| /The reasons why workers with disabilities continue to face the possibility of losing their jobs or being unable to return to the workforce are many...
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Young Adults with Disabilities
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£283.99| /This book examines The National Longitudinal Transition Study-2 (NLTS2) funded by the U.S. Department of Education, which provides a unique source ...
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Youth with Disabilities
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£247.99| /The National Longitudinal Transition Study-2 (NLTS2), was initiated in 2001 to provide a national picture of the characteristics and experiences of...
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