This critical review focuses on 13 articles and 5 book chapters by prominent special
education scholars. These authors write in support of a continuum of special education …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 DISABILITY STUDIES Page 3 This book is dedicated to the memory of all
those disabled people who have died in institutionally disablist places that masquerade in the …

Previous editions of the bestselling Deconstructing Special Education set a landmark for the
understanding of inclusion. This completely re-written third edition continues in the tradition …

Over the last decade, a growing number of scholars in Disability Studies have begun to
critique the social model of disability. This paper documents the movement in these …

Inclusion is a buzzword of the 1990s. Politicians now stress their commitment to inclusion
and social justice-not competition. For schools, inclusion means accepting and educating all …

Long before the English became involved in the African slave trade, they imagined Africans
as monstrous and deformed beings. The English drew on pre-existing European ideas …

This paper explores the divergent theoretical developments in the UK and US disability
studies and posits some explanations for these differing trajectories. History, politics, space …

BACKGOUND: The undertreatment of pain has increasingly been framed as both a public
health problem and a human rights issue. The application of rights-based discourses to the …

This book offers a rich, insider's viewpoint of the lived experience of brain injury. Sherry, a
survivor of brain injury himself, uses a cross-disciplinary theoretical approach (drawing upon …

This article examines the rise of a feminist engagement with the disability rights movement.
Three realms of social being—individual, society, and the state—interact in the making of the …