Winning the Disability Challenge
Winning the Disability Challenge

Author: John F. Tholen

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780882822907

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Nobody wants to believe it could ever happen to them. Whether you're on the job or at home, the threat of receiving a disabling injury is omnipresent anytime or anywhere in our lives. Our ability to work and live the daily life we often take for granted can all be taken away in an instant, leaving those of us suffering from physical or occupational disabilities feeling withdrawn, helpless and depressed. Now all that can change. In his inspiring book, Winning The Disability Challenge: A Practical Guide to Successful Living, renowned psychologist John F. Tholen, Ph.D. provides a fresh, positive outlook on living life as a disabled individual through: Tips on how fulfilling life experiences can be achieved after becoming permanently disabled. Essential guidelines to help the disabled navigate and negotiate the complex worlds of private insurance companies, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, VA Benefits, Federal and State Disability along with its subsequent maze of bureaucratic red tape. 100 affirmations that can be a source of comfort and help in getting back on track, even at times of great discouragement. Simpe, manageable methods for improving health, managing pain, curing insomnia and coping with various depressive, distressing symptoms.

Disabilities of the Color Line
Disabilities of the Color Line

Author: Dennis Tyler

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2022-02-15

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 147980584X

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"Rather than simply engaging in a triumphalist narrative of overcoming where both disability and disablement are shunned alike, Disabilities of the Color Line argues that Black authors and activists have consistently avowed disability as a part of Black social life in varied and complex ways. Sometimes their affirmation of disability serves to capture how their bodies, minds, and health have been and are made vulnerable to harm and impairment by the state and society. Sometimes their assertion of disability symbolizes a sense of commonality and community that comes not only from a recognition of the shared subjection of blackness and disability but also from a willingness to imagine and create a world distinct from the dominant social order. Through the work of David Walker, Henry Box Brown, William and Ellen Craft, Charles Chesnutt, James Weldon Johnson, and Mamie Till-Mobley, Disabilities of the Color Line examines how Black writer-activists have engaged in an aesthetics of redress: modes of resistance that show how Black communities have rigorously acknowledged disability as a response to forms of racial injury and in the pursuit of racial and disability justice"--

Being Heumann
Being Heumann

Author: Judith Heumann

Publisher: Beacon Press

Published: 2020-02-25

Total Pages: 458

ISBN-13: 080701950X

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A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year for Nonfiction "...an essential and engaging look at recent disability history."— Buzzfeed One of the most influential disability rights activists in US history tells her personal story of fighting for the right to receive an education, have a job, and just be human. A story of fighting to belong in a world that wasn’t built for all of us and of one woman’s activism—from the streets of Brooklyn and San Francisco to inside the halls of Washington—Being Heumann recounts Judy Heumann’s lifelong battle to achieve respect, acceptance, and inclusion in society. Paralyzed from polio at eighteen months, Judy’s struggle for equality began early in life. From fighting to attend grade school after being described as a “fire hazard” to later winning a lawsuit against the New York City school system for denying her a teacher’s license because of her paralysis, Judy’s actions set a precedent that fundamentally improved rights for disabled people. As a young woman, Judy rolled her wheelchair through the doors of the US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in San Francisco as a leader of the Section 504 Sit-In, the longest takeover of a governmental building in US history. Working with a community of over 150 disabled activists and allies, Judy successfully pressured the Carter administration to implement protections for disabled peoples’ rights, sparking a national movement and leading to the creation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Candid, intimate, and irreverent, Judy Heumann’s memoir about resistance to exclusion invites readers to imagine and make real a world in which we all belong.

Disability Visibility
Disability Visibility

Author: Alice Wong

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2020-06-30

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1984899422

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“Disability rights activist Alice Wong brings tough conversations to the forefront of society with this anthology. It sheds light on the experience of life as an individual with disabilities, as told by none other than authors with these life experiences. It's an eye-opening collection that readers will revisit time and time again.” —Chicago Tribune One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent—but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Activist Alice Wong brings together this urgent, galvanizing collection of contemporary essays by disabled people, just in time for the thirtieth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, From Harriet McBryde Johnson’s account of her debate with Peter Singer over her own personhood to original pieces by authors like Keah Brown and Haben Girma; from blog posts, manifestos, and eulogies to Congressional testimonies, and beyond: this anthology gives a glimpse into the rich complexity of the disabled experience, highlighting the passions, talents, and everyday lives of this community. It invites readers to question their own understandings. It celebrates and documents disability culture in the now. It looks to the future and the past with hope and love.

Demystifying Disability
Demystifying Disability

Author: Emily Ladau

Publisher: Ten Speed Press

Published: 2021-09-07

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1984858971

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An approachable guide to being a thoughtful, informed ally to disabled people, with actionable steps for what to say and do (and what not to do) and how you can help make the world a more inclusive place ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NPR, Booklist • “A candid, accessible cheat sheet for anyone who wants to thoughtfully join the conversation . . . Emily makes the intimidating approachable and the complicated clear.”—Rebekah Taussig, author of Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary, Resilient, Disabled Body People with disabilities are the world’s largest minority, an estimated 15 percent of the global population. But many of us—disabled and nondisabled alike—don’t know how to act, what to say, or how to be an ally to the disability community. Demystifying Disability is a friendly handbook on the important disability issues you need to know about, including: • How to appropriately think, talk, and ask about disability • Recognizing and avoiding ableism (discrimination toward disabled people) • Practicing good disability etiquette • Ensuring accessibility becomes your standard practice, from everyday communication to planning special events • Appreciating disability history and identity • Identifying and speaking up about disability stereotypes in media Authored by celebrated disability rights advocate, speaker, and writer Emily Ladau, this practical, intersectional guide offers all readers a welcoming place to understand disability as part of the human experience. Praise for Demystifying Disability “Whether you have a disability, or you are non-disabled, Demystifying Disability is a MUST READ. Emily Ladau is a wise spirit who thinks deeply and writes exquisitely.”—Judy Heumann, international disability rights advocate and author of Being Heumann “Emily Ladau has done her homework, and Demystifying Disability is her candid, accessible cheat sheet for anyone who wants to thoughtfully join the conversation. A teacher who makes you forget you’re learning, Emily makes the intimidating approachable and the complicated clear. This book is a generous and needed gift.”—Rebekah Taussig, author of Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body

Disability and the Gospel
Disability and the Gospel

Author: Michael S. Beates

Publisher: Crossway

Published: 2012-07-31

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1433530481

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Michael Beates's concern with disability issues began nearly 30 years ago when his eldest child was born with multiple profound disabilities. Now, as more families like Michael's are affected by a growing number of difficulties ranging from down syndrome to autism to food allergies, the need for church programs and personal paradigm shifts is greater than ever. Working through key Bible passages on brokenness and disability while answering hard questions, Michael offers here helpful principles for believers and their churches. He shows us how to embrace our own brokenness and then to embrace those who are more physically and visibly broken, bringing hope and vision to those of us who need it most.

Winning the Challenge
Winning the Challenge

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 8

ISBN-13:

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Study based on 23 deinstitutionalized developmentally disabled adults with secondary psychological disorder. Participating states: Tennessee, Alabama, Florida, Wisconsin, Utah, and Wyoming.

Dying to Win
Dying to Win

Author: Barrie Houlihan

Publisher: Council of Europe

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 9287146853

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Drug abuse in sport has now become an acute international problem, which undermines the integrity of sport and is a real danger to the health of thousands of athletes. The second edition of this publication has been updated to take account of new forms of drug abuse in the sports world, as well as developments in genetic engineering and gene therapy. It also contains a list of useful internet sources. A key finding is that the control of doping, including the harmonisation of both practice and policy among the major world sports bodies, requires a re-evaluation of the direction of future anti-doping policy, particularly in the light of the recent establishment of the World Anti-Doping Agency.