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Disability awareness training for disability professionals

Disability and Rehabilitation, 2001
This article describes work at the Virginia School of the Deaf and Blind in Hampton, Virginia, USA. Disability sensitivity training in businesses and government organizations has become a more important activity in the United States since the Americans with Disability Act (ADA) of 1992 was published.
Vernon A. Quarstein, Polly A. Peterson
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Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature

, 1996
Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature. Rosemarie Garland Thomson. New York: Columbia UP, 1996. x + 200. $45.00 cloth, $14.50 paper.
G. Couser, R. G. Thomson
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Don't Disable Teachers with Disabilities

British Journal of Special Education, 1990
The Last Civil Rights Movement is well and truly with us. In a bigoted and prejudiced world children with disabilities and learning difficulties have rights and must learn to fight for them. A movement for disability equality led by disabled people ‐ including disabled teachers ‐ has a central place in our education system.
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Disablement, Disability and the Nigerian Society

Disability, Handicap & Society, 1988
ABSTRACT This paper seeks to examine the question of disability in developing countries, particularly Nigeria. Most of the diseases causing disabilities are preventable. Many of these are infections which could be prevented with medical care. The perception of handicapping conditions by most Nigerians it is argued, are greatly influenced by myth and ...
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Disability Culture or Disability Consciousness?

Journal of Disability Policy Studies, 1996
“Disability culture” has become a taken-for-granted phenomenon in the disability community. Here I argue that this usage of the concept of culture does not fit anthropological definitions. Rather, I suggest that the concept of collective consciousness better describes what is occurring in the disability community than does the term disability culture.
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Disability Studies/Disability Culture

2013
Abstract This chapter addresses three primary questions: What is disability culture? What is disability studies? How do these two interact? Disability culture is explored as a movement “from the inside out,” one focused on issues of choice, power, language, and identity/community.
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Persons With Disabilities

2017
The title of this chapter is “Persons With Disabilities.” Although it is a basic title, for some people I have already taken a stand. To use the term disabled person instead of person with a disability is thought by many to be politically incorrect because disabled person suggests that the only thing worth mentioning about the person is the disability.
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An estimate of the worldwide prevalence and disability associated with osteoporotic fractures

Osteoporosis International, 2006
O. Johnell, J. Kanis
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The Oswestry low back pain disability questionnaire.

Physiotherapy, 1980
J. Fairbank, J. Couper, Davies Jb, O'Brien Jp   +3 more
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Decoding, Reading, and Reading Disability

, 1986
Philip B. Gough, W. Tunmer
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