This book focuses explicitly on therapeutic techniques developed from a social model
approach to disability and learning to live with difference. It describes theories, activities and …

The Paralympic Games is the second largest multi-sport festival on earth and an event which
poses profound and challenging questions about the nature of sport, disability and society …

The introduction of the social model of disability has attempted to move the spotlight of
research away from the medical model theories of disability toward an investigation of the …

This ground-breaking book aims to take a new and innovative view on how disability and
architecture might be connected. Rather than putting disability at the end of the design …

This article provides a critique of the concept of reflexivity in social theory today and argues
against the tendency to define agency exclusively in terms of reflexivity. M argaret A rcher, in …

Purpose: This study explores what individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) perceive to be the
benefits of becoming involved in organized sport and identifies the barriers to participation …

Il volume propone una rassegna degli approcci sociologici all'handicap e delle principali
teorie della socializzazione in quest'ambito. La tesi di fondo è favorevole alla comprensione …

Disability studies is an emerging field of inquiry that investigates the disability experience as
a socially constructed phenomenon similar to issues of race, gender, and class. However …

Discrimination against persons with disability is not just a relational phenomenon. It has a
structural dimension that is equally oppressive. Structural discrimination can occur even in …

Purpose: The objectives of this paper are as follows:(1) propose an explanatory model as to
how hearing disability may impact on health and (2) examine the model's utility. Methods …