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Inclusive Sustainability: Harmonising Disability Law and Policy
by Ottavio QuiricoIn light of the third-generation concept of ‘inclusive sustainability’, the volume explores the architecture of global disability governance and its degree of harmonisation. The book integrates socio-cultural, economic, political and legal analyses from an international and comparative perspective. The first part of the volume outlines a tripartite systematisation of disability rights for States and non-state persons. In light of essential economic considerations, the second part explores the relationship between disability and specific fundamental rights and regimes, particularly the rights to life, health, education, work and participation. The third part takes an institutional approach and focuses on the way in which the UN and regional organisations regulate disability (rectius, different ability).
Inclusive Teamwork for Pupils with Speech, Language and Communication Needs (Routledge Research in Special Educational Needs)
by Rosalind MerrickThis book provides a rationale for teaching inclusive teamwork and for understanding communication as a collective endeavour. It shows how teamwork can be taught within schools and emphasises the role that classmates have in facilitating good communication, particularly in the face of difficulty. Grounded in evidence from hours of therapy and analysis of children’s accounts of communication and children’s interactions with their peers, the book explores the components of teamwork by looking carefully at the way schoolchildren really interact. It draws on research from the fields of education, psychology and speech and language therapy to propose the framework for a programme suitable for children aged 7 to 14 years, designed to include pupils with speech, language and communication needs. The programme includes activities, a set of criteria to use as an outcome measure and examples of the way that children and young people have responded in practice. In using the inclusive teamwork programme outlined in this book, teachers have the potential to support all children in developing rapport, effective communication and problem-solving skills. Providing a framework designed to meet the needs of all learners, this book will be highly relevant reading for students of education, speech and language therapy and educational psychology, as well as speech and language therapists and practitioners in the field of education.
Los increíbles
by Óscar Caro (FIDEC) Diego RubioLa historia de dos superhéroes de la vida real La vida de Óscar Caro cambió por completo cuando Luis David, su hijo menor, sufrió dos eventos cardiorrespiratorios que le ocasionaron una parálisis cerebral a los seis meses de nacido. Al conocer la historia del Team Hoyt -un equipo en el que un padre corre maratones empujando la silla de ruedas de su hijo-, Luis David le propuso a su papá que persiguieran ese sueño y, así, Óscar decidió convertirse en atleta profesional a los cuarenta años para correr, nadar y pedalear cientos de kilómetros con su hijo al hombro. El Team Caro Wagner, como se hace llamar este equipo de superhéroes de la vida real, ha corrido maratones y triatlones en Colombia y en el exterior, y aunque el esfuerzo de terminar una competencia de estas es monumental, no es nada comparado con el que debe hacer una familia con un miembro en condición de discapacidad. Los Increíbles es el inspirador testimonio de un padre que hace hasta lo imposible por su hijo, y es también una historia que nos demuestra que es posible salir adelante, a pesar de las complicaciones que la vida nos presenta. Al comprar este libro, estás ayudando a los niños de la Fundación FIDEC, Luis David Caro Wagner.
Independence Training for Visually Handicapped Children
by Doris ToozeFirst published in 1981, this book was written to help parents and teachers to participate in child-based mobility programmes, covering the needs of visually-handicapped children from pre-school to adulthood. It gives insight into ways in which these figures can make the world meaningful to young children, as well as making them aware of the special training that is necessary to develop the social skills of daily living that a sighted child acquires through imitation. Travel techniques must be learnt to enable these children to move independently and the book describes various methods that can be used by the blind traveller. It also examines the role of physical education and dance, both of particular importance for the visually-handicapped child at school age.
Independence without Sight or Sound: Suggestions for Practitioners Working with Deaf-Blind Adults
by Dona SauerburgerSuggestions for working with deaf-blind adults by an expert on orientation and mobility.
Independent Living: Volume I: Social Competence
by Robin Loumiet Nancy LevackA Curriculum with Adaptation for Students with Visual Impairments. This bestseller will help you in assessing, teaching, and evaluating students from school age to adulthood who will live independently or with minimal assistance in social, self-care, and leisure skills.
Independent Living: Volume II: Self-Care and Maintenance of Personal Environment
by Robin Loumiet Nancy LevackA Curriculum with Adaptation for Students with Visual Impairments. This bestseller will help you in assessing, teaching, and evaluating students from school age to adulthood who will live independently or with minimal assistance in social, self-care, and leisure skills.
Independent Living: A Curriculum With Adaptations for Students With Visual Impairments, Vol. 3
by Robin Loumiet Nancy Levack Brigitte MaGeeIndependent Living Volume III: Play and Leisure 2nd Edition Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Independent Living: Assessment & Ongoing Evaluation for Independent Living
by Texas School for the Blind and Visually ImpairedAssessment & Ongoing Evaluation for Independent Living <P><P> A Curriculum with Adaptations for Students with Visual Impairments
Independent Living for Physically Disabled People
by Irving Kenneth Zola Nancy M. CreweA text book for students in Rehabilitation Counseling classes.
Independent Living Without Sight and Hearing
by Richard KinneyThis is a wonderful resource for blind-deaf individuals and those who interact with them. It covers such topics as communication methods, independence at home, telephones, travel hints and much more.
Independent Movement and Travel in Blind Children: A Promotion Model
by Joseph CutterAn innovative guide to encouraging activity, movement, and independence in the young blind child and full of creative ideas, this book provides guidance for parents, teachers, instructional assistants, physical therapists, teachers of the blind, and O&M instructors who desire to create a learning environment in which the blind child can become curious, involved, active and independent.
Indian Head Massage for Special Needs: Easy-to-Learn, Adaptable Techniques to Reduce Anxiety and Promote Wellbeing
by Giuliana FenwickThis complete manual introduces unique Indian head massage techniques to help reduce feelings of stress and anxiety, calm sensory overloads, improve sleep patterns, ease frustration and boost mental, physical and emotional wellbeing in people of all ages with special needs, including Autism Spectrum Disorders. The book provides everything you need to get started, including: - A full, step-by-step, illustrated massage routine - Essential tips on how to create the perfect environment and how to approach clients with special needs - Detailed case studies - Information on anatomy, physiology and the complementary approaches to the body - Supplementary information on essential oils Developed by Giuliana Fenwick through work with her son, and extensively trialled in schools and specialist colleges, this tailored Indian head massage is perfect for anyone looking to provide additional support to people with special needs, including parents and carers, teachers, teaching assistants and other school staff, complementary therapists and any other professionals working with people with special needs.
Indian Sign Language: An Analysis of Its Grammar
by Samar SinhaSamar Sinha presents pioneering research into the grammatical properties of Indian Sign Language (ISL), a language used by members of the Deaf community in India. This detailed and well-illustrated study describes the grammar of ISL and is supplemented by comparative and theoretical analyses in the core areas of sublexical structure, morphology, and syntax. Sinha offers a field-based, comprehensive analysis that covers topics such as o sign formation parameters o syllable structure o sonority hierarchy o semantics of space o pluralization strategies o phi-features o indexing and localization o agreement o word order He provides a description of the Indian Deaf community that serves to frame his analysis of ISL and highlights the need for greater awareness and acknowledgment of the language and its users. The lack of research on ISL in Indian academia has slowed efforts toward the standardization of ISL and the development of pedagogical materials. This work adds to the growing understanding of natural human language in general and ISL in particular. It also contributes to the empowerment of the Deaf community in India and will strengthen the efforts carried out by d/Deaf activists and researchers.
India’s Mental Healthcare Act, 2017: Building Laws, Protecting Rights
by Richard M. Duffy Brendan D. KellyThis book comprehensively discusses the background to the passing of India's revolutionary Mental Healthcare Act, 2017, offering a detailed description of the Act itself and a rigorous analysis in the context of the CRPD and the World Health Organization (WHO) standards for mental health law. It examines the fine balance, between complying with the CRPD while still delivering practical, humane, and implementable legislation. It explores how this legislation was shaped by the WHO standards and provides insights into areas where the Indian legislators deviated from these guidelines and why. Taking India as an example, it highlights what is possible in other low- and middle-income countries. Further it covers key issues in mental health, identifying potential competing interests and exploring the difficulties and limitations of international guidelines.The book is a valuable resource for psychiatrists, nurses, social workers, non-governmental organizations and all mental healthcare workers in India and anyone studying human rights law.
Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004
by 108th CongressIndividuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004.
Indoor Wayfinding And Navigation
by Hassan A. KarimiIndoor Wayfinding and Navigation provides both breadth and depth of knowledge in designing and building indoor wayfinding and navigation systems and services. It covers the types of sensors both feasible and practical for localization of users inside buildings. The book discusses current approaches, techniques, and technologies for addressing issues in indoor wayfinding and navigation systems and services. It includes coverage of the cognitive, positioning, mapping, and application perspectives, an unusual but useful combination of information. This mix of different perspectives helps you better understand the issues and challenges of building indoor wayfinding and navigation systems and services, how they are different from those used outdoors, and how they can be used efficiently and effectively in challenging applications. Written by well-known specialists in the field, the book addresses all aspects of indoor wayfinding and navigation. It includes the latest research developments on the topic, succinctly covers the fundamentals, and details the issues and challenges in building new systems and services. With this information, you can design indoor wayfinding and navigation systems and services for a variety of uses and users.
The Influence of Parental Attitudes and Social Environment on the Personality Development of the Adolescent Blind
by Vita Stein SommersThe author's experience with visually handicapped children and young adults in schools is richly used in this study of the influence Of parental attitudes and social environment on the personality development of the adolescent blind.
Informing Social Security’s Process for Financial Capability Determination
by National Academies of Sciences Engineering MedicineThe U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) provides benefits to disabled adults and children, offering vital financial support to more than 19 million disabled Americans. Of that group, approximately 5.5 million have been deemed – by virtue of youth or mental or physical impairment - incapable of managing or directing the management of their benefits. Hence, a representative payee has been appointed to receive and disburse SSA payments for these beneficiaries to ensure that their basic needs for shelter, food, and clothing are met. Periodically, however, concerns have been expressed about the accuracy of the process by which SSA determines whether beneficiaries are capable of managing their benefits, with some evidence suggesting that underdetection of incapable recipients may be a particular problem. The importance of creating as accurate a process as possible for incapability determinations is underscored by the consequences of incorrectly identifying recipients either as incapable when they can manage their benefits or as capable when they cannot. Failure to identify beneficiaries who are incapable of managing their funds means abandoning a vulnerable population to potential homelessness, hunger, and disease. Informing Social Security’s Process for Financial Capability Determination considers capability determination processes used by other similar benefit programs, abilities required to manage, and direct the management of, benefits, and effective methods and measures for assessing capability. This report evaluates SSA’s capability determination process for adult beneficiaries and provides recommendations for improving the accuracy and efficiency of the agency’s policy and procedures for making these determinations.
Injury and Injustice: The Cultural Politics of Harm and Redress (Cambridge Studies in Law and Society)
by David M. Engel Anne Bloom Michael McCannThis book addresses some of the most difficult and important debates over injury and law now taking place in societies around the world. The essays tackle the inescapable experience of injury and its implications for social inequality in different cultural settings. Topics include the tension between physical and reputational injuries, the construction of human injuries versus injuries to non-human life, virtual injuries, the normalization and infliction of injuries on vulnerable victims, the question of reparations for slavery, and the paradoxical degradation of victims through legal actions meant to compensate them for their disabilities. Authors include social theorists, social scientists and legal scholars, and the subject matter extends to the Middle East and Asia, as well as North America.
Inky: The Seeing Eye Dog
by Elizabeth P. HeppnerMore than anything in the world, Jonathan wants a dog. Then he finds a frisky puppy in the woods. But Inky already has an owner--the Seeing Eye. Jonathan is crushed until the man who has come for Inky asks, "Jonathan, how would you like to take care of Inky for the next twelve months?"
Inner Navigation
by Erik JonssonA fascinating investigation of how we navigate the physical world, "Inner Imagination is a lively, engaging account of subconscious map-making. Why are we so often disoriented when we come up from the subway? Do we really walk in circles when we lose our bearings in the wilderness?How -- and why -- do we get lost at all? In this surprising, stimulating book, Erik Jonsson, a Swedish-born engineer who has spent a lifetime exploring navigation over every terrain, from the crowded cities of Europe to the emptiness of the desert, gives readers extraordinary new insights into the human way-finding system. Written for the non-scientist, "Inner Navigation" explains the astonishing array of physical and psychological cues the brain uses to situate us in space and build its "cognitive maps" -- the subconscious maps it employs to organize landmarks. Humans, Jonsson explains, also possess an intuitive direction frame -- an internal compass -- that keeps these maps oriented (when it functions properly) and a dead-reckoning system that constantly updates our location on the map as we move through the world.
Inner Views from My Culture
by Audrey AbellAuthors Introduction: I wrote this book because my High School requires everyone to do a senior project to graduate. I decided to interview other teenagers and young people I know that have a disability because I have cerebral palsy and have had it my whole life. I'm hoping this book will help to raise awareness for those that are not disabled by helping them to understand what we go through day to day in the life of a young person with CP. I wanted it to be from the strong heart of my generation. I collected the information by email, in person and phone conversations that were recorded. For the interviews I asked everyone forty-one questions and they answered only the ones they wanted to. Each person has his or her own chapter. It ended up that the majority of everyone in this book has cerebral palsy of some kind. Some of the people I knew already and some I found by word of mouth and on the internet. The questions I asked my friends were inspired by my own life and what I deal with on a daily basis. The people who participated in this book chose to be anonymous because some of the questions are very personal and that way it could be private. Everyone who contributed to the book will get their own copy to share with whomever they want, in their lives and communities. Hopefully after people read the information it will give them more insight and they'll have more understanding. Like most people in the book I am the only one at my school in a power chair and that has cp. I've been the only one my whole life so I'm used to that. I think my being at school has made some people more aware. I think the problem is that people don't understand those with disabilities have the same feelings and think the same. When someone does "get it" they just treat me like a normal person, speak directly to me normally, without extra loudness or slowness or the other big one is they don't talk to me like I'm a baby. In the interview I talk about other important issues. I hope you enjoy this book and that it changes your perspective on us, our world, and our culture. I also hope that it helps all the young writers who participated, feel better to know about what each other is going through and that we share a lot of the same feelings and can learn and help each other. That goes for people with disabilities everywhere too.
Inner Vision: The Story of the World's Greatest Blind Athlete
by Craig Macfarlane Gib TwymanCraig MacFarlane lost his sight at age 2 and went on to become not only the world's greatest blind athlete, but a much-sought-after motivational speaker. His message is PRIDE -- Perseverance, Respect, Individuality, Desire and Enthusiasm.
Inseparable: How Family and Sacrifice Forged a Path to the NFL
by Shaquem Griffin Shaquill Griffin Mark SchlabachMuch more than a sports memoir, in Inseparable Shaquem and Shaquill Griffin share the previously untold details of the powerful and inspiring story behind the modern NFL&’s first one-handed player, and his twin brother&’s unrelenting devotion, sacrifice, and love. It&’s the story of Shaquem&’s understanding of God&’s purpose for his life—to inspire others to stop being afraid and to stop making excuses—and his family&’s unwavering support in spite of seemingly insurmountable obstacles. The Griffins&’ unlikely underdog story has already captured the imagination of millions of football fans and physically challenged people around the world.