epub |eng | 2019-02-27 | Author:Kuppers, Petra.;

The portrayal of people with disabilities in jokes A disabled person is perceived as weak and invalid in sexual life. People with disabilities are assumed to be celibates who sublimate ...

epub |eng | 2010-06-14 | Author:Terry Galloway [Galloway, Terry]

Shhhhhh! When Tenley and I were still little, after Gail had moved to New York and we were left alone with our parents, those two would sometimes disappear together. Tenley ...

epub |eng | 2019-08-05 | Author:Catherine McKercher

Anxiety disorders are teh most common mental health problem in North America, including among people with Down syndrome.7 OCD might explain a lot of things about Bill. But if he ...

epub |eng | | Author:Elizabeth Ellcessor,Bill Kirkpatrick & Bill Kirkpatrick

2 Barnartt and Altman, Disability and Intersecting Statuses; Garland-Thomson, Extraordinary Bodies; McRuer, Crip Theory; Rodan, Ellis, and Lebeck, Disability, Obesity and Ageing. 3 We here note the problematic nature of ...

epub |eng | 2019-07-31 | Author:Dannagal Goldthwaite Young

Both jokes make the argument that taking a selfie with a bear is a dumb thing to do. It’s unsafe, and the people who do it are unwise. However, the ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2019-02-25 | Author:Judith Heumann & Kristen Joiner

NOT LONG AFTER, we found out that Denver and New York City had folded. They’d had no personal assistance or accessible bathrooms. Now Califano was going to be even more ...

epub |eng | 2019-12-27 | Author:Michele Sullivan

* * * The biggest life we can live is not an independent one—it’s an interdependent one. * * * He goes on to explain that the act of remaining ...

epub |eng | 2019-02-08 | Author:Al Etmanski

Did You Know . . . the First Bicycle Was a Wheelchair In 1655, Stephan Farffler, a Nuremberg, Germany, watchmaker, invented a three-wheeled device called a manumotive carriage. It is ...

epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Lynne Vallone [Vallone, Lynne]

“Science Finds, Industry Applies, Man Conforms” Behind big machines lie big ideas. And animating these ideas were the desires to reduce human labor, solve agricultural, industrial, transportation, and communication problems, ...

epub |eng | 2019-06-03 | Author:Ron McCallum

10 Marriage Equality has been one of my hallmark attitudes: equality between women and men, and between persons with disabilities and all other people. Therefore, I didn’t want a wife ...

epub |eng | 2014-11-11 | Author:Timothy Shriver [Shriver, Timothy]

ELEVEN Tough World “Maybe we should move to Washington,” Linda said one day, cracking open the door to a change of life. We thought about what we’d be leaving behind ...

epub |eng | 2019-08-12 | Author:Pia Justesen

SHUTTING PEOPLE OUT IS WHAT I’VE DONE CANDACE COLEMAN Candace was the first person I interviewed for this book. I was nervous when we met in a small meeting room ...

epub |eng | 2019-07-22 | Author:Peter Catapano

A Symbol for “Nobody” That’s Really for Everybody ELIZABETH GUFFEY I was 12 years old when I first encountered the blue wheelchair symbol. I still remember sitting in our family ...

epub |eng | 2019-07-21 | Author:Victoria Webster & Diana Webster [Webster, Victoria & Webster, Diana]

epub |eng | 2016-04-04 | Author:Dan Barry

The years melt into decades THIRTEEN THE BUNKHOUSE AND THE BOSSMAN declined together. Its windows boarded up and his body breaking down, the ceiling leaks and drinking, the twinned damage ...