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An Ethnography of Severe Intellectual Disability

Author : Jocelyn D. Avery
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9783030322083
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book An Ethnography of Severe Intellectual Disability written by Jocelyn D. Avery and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2019-11-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this ethnographic investigation of a special education needs college in Australia, Jocelyn D. Avery explores how the self-identity of people with severe intellectual identities is influenced by carers and support people in their lives. Employing theoretical foundations of self-identity and embodiment and drawing largely on Mary Douglas’s (1996) notions of ritual and hygiene, purity and danger, Avery argues that students in this environment are treated as though they exist in a vacuum, rather than a highly complex social environment: strategies to ‘contain’ their difficult selves ultimately lead to continued confinement, as if the students themselves were ‘contaminated’. In the midst of this much-needed ethnography, Avery meditates on her own role: matters of consent, communication, and cooperation pose a challenge to anthropological engagement with severe intellectual disability, but researcher ethics and positionality have their own difficulties. The reflection provided here will provide a guide for future researchers to sensitively engage with people with disability.

Narrowed Lives

Author : Simo Vehmas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789176351499
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Narrowed Lives written by Simo Vehmas and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is day-to-day life l ...

Participant Observation

Author : Jocelyn D. Avery
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781529725681
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book Participant Observation written by Jocelyn D. Avery and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a plethora of social research among people with intellectual disabilities but a dearth of qualitative social research conducted with people with severe intellectual disabilities. This is hardly surprising given the difficulties of consent, communication, and cooperation. I conducted research at a special education needs college working with the senior students and staff with the hope of gaining an understanding of the students' sense of "self." Using the ethnographic methods of participant observation, guided conversations, and interviews, I came to know the students and their sociocultural environment. Participant observation, in the true ethnographic sense, is not commonly used to conduct research among people with severe intellectual disabilities. I illustrate the utility of this method for gaining an understanding of their sense of self using a case study of one student. I was made aware that Tracy could be a danger to me the first time we met, and I spent many months being afraid of her. Over time, we accepted the presence of each other in the college and became friends. There are limitations to participant observation, but there are benefits to getting to know your intellectually disabled research participants on their own terms, as well as through the knowledge and experience of their parents, guardians, teachers, and carers.

Psychiatry of Intellectual Disability Across Cultures

Author :
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198857608
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Psychiatry of Intellectual Disability Across Cultures written by and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-20 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intellectual disability is a lifelong condition involving deficits in both intellectual and adaptive functioning. Individuals with intellectual disability experience a greater burden of co-occurring physical and mental illness compared to the general population, and often need a significant degree of support from healthcare professionals and carers, as well as family and friends. Additionally, their lives can be greatly influenced both positively and negatively by the cultures in which they exist, including societal attitudes, belief systems and norms. An insightful addition to the Oxford Cultural Psychiatry series, Psychiatry of Intellectual Disability across Cultures explores the health, support structures, and societal attitudes towards people with intellectual disabilities throughout the world. Written by international experts of intellectual disability and mental health, this comprehensive textbook covers broad topics such as anthropology, mental health, physical health, research, and sexuality. It also comprises chapters dedicated to specific geographic regions, such as Africa, America, Australasia, Europe, India, the Middle East, and the United Kingdom and Ireland.

The Faces of Intellectual Disability

Author : Licia Carlson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253221579
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book The Faces of Intellectual Disability written by Licia Carlson and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a challenge to current thinking about cognitive impairment, this book explores what it means to treat people with intellectual disabilities in an ethical manner. Reassessing philosophical views of intellectual disability, Licia Carlson shows how we can affirm the dignity and worth of intellectually disabled people first by ending comparisons to nonhuman animals and then by confronting our fears and discomforts. Carlson presents the complex history of ideas about cognitive disability, the treatment of intellectually disabled people, and social and cultural reactions to them. Sensitive and clearly argued, this book offers new insights on recent trends in disability studies and philosophy.

Intellectual Disability

Author : Heather Keith
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118586441
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (185 download)

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Download or read book Intellectual Disability written by Heather Keith and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-03-15 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intellectual Disability: Ethics, Dehumanization, and a New Moral Community presents an interdisciplinary exploration of the roots and evolution of the dehumanization of people with intellectual disabilities. Examines the roots of disability ethics from a psychological, philosophical, and educational perspective Presents a coherent, sustained moral perspective in examining the historical dehumanization of people with diminished cognitive abilities Includes a series of narratives and case descriptions to illustrate arguments Reveals the importance of an interdisciplinary understanding of the social construction of intellectual disability

A Disability of the Soul

Author : Karen Nakamura
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801467985
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book A Disability of the Soul written by Karen Nakamura and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a terrific book―moving, clear, and compassionate. It not only illustrates the way psychiatric illness is shaped by culture, but also suggests that social environments can be used to improve the course and outcome of the illness. Well worth reading." — T. M. Luhrmann, author of Of Two Minds: An Anthropologist looks at American Psychiatry Bethel House, located in a small fishing village in northern Japan, was founded in 1984 as an intentional community for people with schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders. Using a unique, community approach to psychosocial recovery, Bethel House focuses as much on social integration as on therapeutic work. As a centerpiece of this approach, Bethel House started its own businesses in order to create employment and socialization opportunities for its residents and to change public attitudes toward the mentally ill, but also quite unintentionally provided a significant boost to the distressed local economy. Through its work programs, communal living, and close relationship between hospital and town, Bethel has been remarkably successful in carefully reintegrating its members into Japanese society. It has become known as a model alternative to long-term institutionalization. In A Disability of the Soul, Karen Nakamura explores how the members of this unique community struggle with their lives, their illnesses, and the meaning of community. Told through engaging historical narrative, insightful ethnographic vignettes, and compelling life stories, her account of Bethel House depicts its achievements and setbacks, its promises and limitations. A Disability of the Soul is a sensitive and multidimensional portrait of what it means to live with mental illness in contemporary Japan.

Opportunity House

Author : Michael V. Angrosino
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 076198917X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book Opportunity House written by Michael V. Angrosino and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 1998 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Angrosino, by weaving together a life-histories approach to ethnography and a completely new concept of culture, is able to present an intimate and complex picture of Opportunity House, a highly functional community of mentally-retarded adults.

Belonging for People with Profound Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities

Author : Melanie Nind
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429536313
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Belonging for People with Profound Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities written by Melanie Nind and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-06 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book pushes the boundaries in the way we approach people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities, and in how we work with them in education and research. While it is grounded in diverse theoretical frameworks and disciplines, the book coheres around a commitment to seeing people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities as equal citizens who belong in our classrooms, research projects and community lives. Each section covers policy contexts, key ideas and recent research. Featuring contributions from around the world, the book incorporates established and new voices, different disciplines and experiences. Additionally, it includes pieces from family members of people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities. Divided into three parts, the book explores three main topics: Belonging in education Belonging in research Belonging in communities Belonging for People with Profound Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities is an invaluable resource for scholars, professionals and postgraduate research students with an interest in children or adults with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities.

A Feminist Ethnography of Secure Wards for Women with Learning Disabilities

Author : Rebecca Fish
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351614711
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book A Feminist Ethnography of Secure Wards for Women with Learning Disabilities written by Rebecca Fish and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-13 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is life like for women with learning disabilities detained in a secure unit? This book presents a unique ethnographic study conducted in a contemporary institution in England. Rebecca Fish takes an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on both the social model of disability and intersectional feminist methodology, to explore the reasons why the women were placed in the unit, as well their experiences of day-to-day life as played out through relationships with staff and other residents. She raises important questions about the purpose of such units and the services they offer. Through making the women’s voices heard, this book presents their experiences and unique perspectives on topics such as seclusion, restraint, and resistance. Exploring how the ever present power disparity works to regulate women’s behaviour, the book shows how institutional responses replicate women’s bad experiences from the past, and how women’s responses are seen as pathological. It demonstrates that women are not passive recipients of care, but shape their own identity and futures, sometimes by resisting the norms expected of them (within allowed limits) and sometimes by transgressing the rules. These insights thus challenge traditional institutional accounts of gender, learning disability and deviance and highlight areas for reform in policy, practice, methodology, and social theory. This ground-breaking book will be of interest to scholars, students, policymakers and advocates working in the fields of learning disability and disability studies more widely, gender studies and sociology.

Intellectual Disability

Author : James C. Harris, M.D.
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199781524
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Intellectual Disability written by James C. Harris, M.D. and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-24 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approximately 2.5 million people in the United States--one percent of the population--have an intellectual disability (previously referred to as mental retardation). These conditions range from genetic disorders such as Down syndrome to disabilities caused by infectious diseases and brain injury. Intellectual Disability: A Guide for Families and Professionals, by one of the country's foremost authorities on intellectual disability, is a comprehensive resource that will be of importance to anyone with a personal connection to a child or adult with a neurodevelopmental disorder. Emphasizing the humanity of persons with intellectual and related developmental disabilities, psychiatrist and pediatrician James Harris provides essential information on assessment and diagnosis of intellectual disability, treatments for specific disorders, and ways to take advantage of the wide array of services available today. The focus throughout is on the development of the person, the positive supports necessary for self-determination, and, to the extent possible, independent decision making. Harris also surveys historical attitudes toward intellectual disability, the medical community's current understanding of its causes and frequency, and the associated physical, behavioral, and psychiatric conditions (such as seizure disorder, depression, and autism) that often accompany particular types of intellectual disability. The book addresses legal, medical, mental health, and research-related issues as well as matters of spirituality, highlighting the ways in which individuals with intellectual disability can meaningfully participate in the spiritual lives of their families and their communities. Each chapter ends with a series of key points to remember, and the book concludes with a list of additional resources of further interest. Intellectual Disability is a must-read for parents and families of those with neurodevelopmental disorders, providing guidance and essential information to help their family members effectively, and to make a significant, positive difference in their lives now and in the future.

Inclusion, Disability and Culture

Author : Santoshi Halder
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9783319856001
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book Inclusion, Disability and Culture written by Santoshi Halder and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-12 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a global and social examination of how disabilities are played out and experienced around the world. It presents auto-ethnographic perspectives on disability across cultures, societies, and countries by documenting individuals’ personal narratives, thought processes and reflections. Chapter authors share cross-cultural perspectives within and across various countries, such as India, Australia, United States, Sri Lanka, United Kingdom, Croatia, Brazil, South Africa, and Qatar. Adopting a self-reflective stance following qualitative research methodology, the chapter authors discuss the current challenges in the field. Next, they deconstruct disability identities, explore the complexities of communication with differently abled persons, examine inclusive policies, practices and interventions and present insights from caregivers. The book concludes with critical reflections and a look to the future of global diversity and inclusion.

Social and Dialogic Thinking and Learning in Special Education

Author : Karen A. Erickson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000514765
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Social and Dialogic Thinking and Learning in Special Education written by Karen A. Erickson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a three-year post-critical ethnography, this volume counters deficit-based notions of disability to present a new social and dialogic theory of thinking and learning for students with significant support needs. Dismantling ideas around ableism/disableism, Social and Dialogic Thinking and Learning offers a uniquely theoretical and conceptual contribution to special education and capability research. Illustrating how students exhibit varied practical, social, and creative abilities, possess agency and perform identity, chapters present a challenge to the restrictive ways in which disability is constructed through prescriptive forms of teacher-student interaction and instruction. The text ultimately offers a powerful re-imagining of how educators and researchers can perceive, observe, and respond to students beyond current institutional and cultural norms. This text will benefit researchers, academics, and educators with an interest in inclusion and special educational needs, disability studies, and the theories of learning more broadly. Those specifically interested in educational psychology and the study of severe, profound, and multiple learning difficulties will also benefit from this book.

Enhancing the Quality of Life of People with Intellectual Disabilities

Author : Ralph Kober
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9048196507
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Enhancing the Quality of Life of People with Intellectual Disabilities written by Ralph Kober and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-09-24 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains a series of articles, written by international experts in the fields of intellectual disability and quality of life, that explore a broad range of issues that impact on the quality of life of people with intellectual disabilities and their families. The book commences with a general discussion on defining quality of life and family quality of life and the appropriateness of using these constructs in the field of intellectual disability, and is followed by an analysis on the effects of living arrangements and employment on quality of life. The book concludes with discussions on the unique issues facing children with intellectual disabilities and people living in developing countries and the effect these issues have upon their quality of life.

Intellectual Disability and Stigma

Author : Katrina Scior
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137524995
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Intellectual Disability and Stigma written by Katrina Scior and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how intellectual disability is affected by stigma and how this stigma has developed. Around two per cent of the world's population have an intellectual disability but their low visibility in many places bears witness to their continuing exclusion from society. This prejudice has an impact on the family of those with an intellectual disability as well as the individual themselves and affects the well-being and life chances of all those involved. This book provides a framework for tackling intellectual disability stigma in institutional processes, media representations and other, less overt, settings. It also highlights the anti-stigma interventions which are already in place and the central role that self-advocacy must play.

Intimate Care in the Lives of People with Severe and Profound Intellectual Disabilities

Author : Julie Clark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Intimate Care in the Lives of People with Severe and Profound Intellectual Disabilities written by Julie Clark and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cognitive and Intellectual Disabilities

Author : Stephen B. Richards
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135049262
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Cognitive and Intellectual Disabilities written by Stephen B. Richards and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cognitive and Intellectual Disabilities: Historical Perspectives, Current Practices, and Future Directions provides thorough coverage of the causes and characteristics of cognitive and intellectual disabilities (formerly known as mental retardation) as well as detailed discussions of the validated instructional approaches in the field today. Features include: A companion website that offers students and instructors learning objectives, additional activities, discussion outlines, and practice tests for each chapter of the book An up-to-date volume that reflects the terminology and criteria of the DSM-V and is aligned with the current CEC standards Teaching Applications: presents the strongest coverage available in any introductory text on instructional issues and applications for teaching students with cognitive and intellectual disabilities A unique chapter on "Future Issues" that explores the philosophical, social, legal, medical, educational, and personal issues that professionals and people with cognitive and intellectual disabilities face This comprehensive and current introductory textbook is ideally suited for introductory or methods courses related to cognitive and intellectual disabilities.