In “Physician Burnout Calls for Legal Intervention” (November-December 2019), Sharona Hoffman calls for a “requirement” in the form of a “mandate that health care employers measure physician wellness using the [Maslach Burnout Inventory] (or another reliable tool) and report outcomes to [the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services]” (p. 9). Such a requirement would be unlawful under the Americans with Disabilities Act’s rules on prohibited medical examinations of employees.

Sharona Hoffman’s response to my letter states “employers may require periodic job-related medical examinations of all employees ‘in positions affecting public safety.’ As I argued in my commentary, doctors, to whom patients entrust their health every day, have safety-critical jobs.”

This comparison is inapt. As Ilene N. Moore, Screening Older Physicians for Cognitive Impairment: Justifiable or Discriminatory, 28 HEALTH MATRIX 95, 140 (2018) recently explained: “any interpretation suggesting that that physicians are in a position affecting public safety is not supported by the statutory language of the ADA, the EEOC Enforcement Guidance, or EEOC correspondence. Only one federal law defines some physicians as public safety officers: physicians who serve as part of a public rescue squad or ambulance as defined by the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968.” (internal citations omitted).

The present study used a Double-ABCX model to explore parental stress in 48 British families with children with developmental disabilities and behaviour problems in relation to certain child characteristics, resources, parents' perceptions and coping styles. Results indicated that the strongest predictors of parental stress were family coping style and parental internal locus of control. Parents who believed their lives were not controlled by their child with a disability and who coped by focussing on family integration, co-operation, and were optimistic tended to show lower overall stress. This study also examined parents' qualitative responses to questions concerning the stress they experience in dealing with friends, family, and doctors or other professionals. The emerging themes and clinical implications of these findings, methodological issues, and suggestions for future research are discussed.

The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use.

It is not unusual that social discourses about different and diverse have often been in the shadow of a medical understanding of the normal, the average and the deviating or pathological. The classic norm from the end of the nineteenth century, based on the analytical difference between the normal and the pathological has been the basis of not only social differentiation and integration, but also of social practices for a long time, stepping into the field of the radical separation of the normal from the pathological, primarily with a strong reliance on a medical discourse. Persons with disabilities have long been labeled, marked, stigmatized as "the deviating", inappropriate, and unacceptable in relation to the established social-medical norm. The general medicalization of the Western society and the Western culture has its beginnings exactly in the typology and classification of persons who, by their appearance and behavior, deviate from the average. Today there are numerous mechanisms that enable overcoming the exclusion and isolation of persons with disabilities by their involvement in the community. One of the most important domains of this involvement is the right and the possibility of achieving work activity. The development and progress of civil society institutions can be also measured by the level of fulfillment of these rights. hiring people with disabilities employers training editor pavle milenković

The article examines three feature-length films produced in South Korea—director Hwang Dong-hyeok’s Silenced (2011), Song Il-gon’s Always (2011), and An Sang-hun’s Blind (2011)—that highlight a problem in contemporary disability rights cinema. While privileging individuals and groups that challenge normative understandings of character-based drama or documentary filmmaking, these motion pictures reflect an infantilizing tendency in popular culture more generally. The representations align with the standard medical approach to the topic, which sees disability as a sickness, a childlike helplessness (regardless of the person’s age) that results from an inability, a marked deficit in one’s physical or mental performance. However, it is argued that Silenced, a film that provoked legislative changes strengthening the protection of minors in South Korea, at least gestures toward the social model of disability.

The onslaught of neoliberalism, austerity measures and cuts, impact of climate change, protracted conflicts and ongoing refugee crisis, rise of far right and populist movements have all negatively impacted on disability. Yet, disabled people and their allies are fighting back and we urgently need to understand how, where and what they are doing, what they feel their challenges are and what their future needs will be.

This comprehensive handbook emphasizes the importance of everyday disability activism and how activists across the world bring together a wide range of activism tactics and strategies. It also challenges the activist movements, transnational and emancipatory politics, as well as providing future directions for disability activism.

With contributions from senior and emerging disability activists, academics, students and practitioners from around the globe, this handbook covers the following broad themes:

• Contextualising disability activism in global activism

• Neoliberalism and austerity in the global North

• Rights, embodied resistance and disability activism

• Belonging, identity and values: how to create diverse coalitions for rights

• Reclaiming social positions, places and spaces

• Social media, support and activism

• Campus activism in higher education

• Inclusive pedagogies, evidence and activist practices

• Enabling human rights and policy

• Challenges facing disability activism

The Routledge Handbook of Disability Activism provides disability activists, students, academics, practitioners, development partners and policy makers with an authoritative framework for disability activism.

Taylor & Francis 2019 Outstanding Handbook - Social Sciences - Award Winner

http://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Disability-Activism-1st-Edition/Berghs-Chaitaka-El-Lahib-Dube/p/book/9780815349303

http://www.disabilityactivism.com/

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I would like to thank everyone who had contributed to this project. Most of all, I aspire to express my sincerest gratitude to my final year project mentor, Ms. Chua Huwi Huwi for her invaluable advice, guidance and his patience throughout the process of the research.

ÖZ Bu çalışmanın amacı, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Hükümetlerinin engellilik olgusuna yaklaşımını hükümet programları çerçevesinde ele almaktır. Bu doğrultuda çalışmada, içerik analizi yöntemi ile 1923'ten bu güne kadar göreve gelmiş 65 hükümet tarafından hazırlanan program incelenmiştir. Çalışmada öncelikle hükümet programlarında yer alan engellilere yönelik amaç ve hedefler ortaya konulmuştur. Daha sonra bu amaç ve hedeflerin, engellilerin sorunlarının yoğunlaştığı " ayrımcılık yasağı ve eşitlik, erişilebilirlik, istihdam, eğitim, sağlık ve rehabilitasyon, sosyal yardımlar, mevzuat ve kurumsal yapı " alanları çerçevesinde dağılımı ele alınmıştır. Elde edilen bulgulara göre, engellilik son döneme kadar hükümet programlarında sınırlı düzeyde yer almıştır. Engellilere yönelik amaç ve hedefler daha çok sosyal yardımlar etrafında yoğunlaşmıştır. Ancak 58. Hükümet (2002-2003) ile birlikte bu amaç ve hedeflerin çeşitlendiği ve çağdaş bir engellilik yaklaşımının benimsendiği tespit edilmiştir. ABSTRACT The aim of this study is to handle the approach of the Governments of the Republic of Turkey to the disability fact within the framework of government programs. According to this aim, the government programs which were prepared by 65 govenment which has been establisheb between 1923 and today are analyzed with content analysis method. In the study primarily, the goals and targets for disabled people which are included in the government programs are revealed. Then, the distribution of these goals and targets was handled within the framework the eight fields as " non-discrimination and equality, accessibility, employment, education, health and rehabilitation, social assistance, legislation and institutional structure " in which the problems of people with disabilities are more intense. According to the findings result, disability was taken limited part in the government programs until the last years. The goals and targets for disabled people are concentrated around social assistance field. But with the 58th Goverment (2002-2003) it has been determined that these goals and targets are diversified and a modern disability approach is adopted.

The title of this book might have been Story of a Deaf woman and the society she lives in, that is, the woman would have been qualified as Deaf, and the society would have not been qualified. One can attribute an adjective, that is, a delimitation, to what is markedunusual, special, extraordinaryas opposed to what is unmarkedstandard, natural, normal. Intentionally, the title of this book is rather Story of a woman and a hearing society, and this for two reasons. First, for Anna, the woman the story is about and the author of the chapters in autobiographical part "a" of this book, being born Deaf has been quite a natural experience, as her family was entirely Deaf. Second, for Sara, the hearing author or co-author of essay chapters in part "b" there is a majoritythe hearing oneholding too much power on a minoritythe Deaf community-, and it is about time that such majority took the responsibilities connected to its power, including the one consisting in yielding power on Deaf lives to Deaf people. In contrast to what many books about deafness are engaged in discussing, this is not a work about identity (although chapter 9b also deals with identity). Anna can tell who she is, but there is no attempt to define Deaf people's identity in the chapters that Sara wrote. Defining identities has entirely different meanings, when it is part of the search for oneself, and when it is a label coming from a hearinglet us call it by its namepower. But Anna never felt the need to look for her identity, she has always been perfectly at ease in the role she has had in the world. And, according to Sara, it is the hearing who need to engage in a more comprehensive understanding of their actions relating to Deaf people, in order for Deaf people to be adequately included in society. So, the story told in this book is the story of a woman who leads a satisfactory life, and the story of aoften well-intentionedhearing society that may improve theoften unsatisfactorymanner it treats Deaf people.

ABSTRACT
This research, situated at the junction of feminist, trans and disability studies, examines the limits of intersectional feminist analyses and the difficulties faced in their consideration of gender identity and ability through an analysis of two types of body modification: transsexuality and transability (voluntary disability acquisition). In response to the question “what are the limits of intersectional analyses and how can they be addressed?”, three objectives are proposed: 1) participate in the critical examination of specific limits of intersectional feminist analyses in order to diversify their axes through the consideration of gender identity and ability; 2) question the conceptual assumptions and cisgenderist and (cis)ableist privileges informing negative discourses around these body modifications and highlight points of convergence among feminist, transactivist and anti-ableist movements in order to encourage dialogue and solidarities among them; 3) provide feminist, trans and disability studies with an enriched model of intersectionality capable of addressing new claims for justice from oppressed groups, such as those of transsexual and transabled individuals. The negative discourses of certain feminists and other scientists regarding these body modifications are mapped and critiqued through a methodology combining archeological, genealogical and critical discourse analysis. The reflections presented here, inspired by poststructuralist and queer approaches, explore neither the “origins” of transsexuality and transability nor their motivations; this is a study of the negative discourses about these phenomena and the normative systems from which they originate. The result is an important contribution to theoretical, normative and political fields of knowledge: the examination of two “extreme” cases of body modification reveals the bodily normativities of dominant regimes, specifically cisgenderism and (cis)ableism, that remain as unrecognized in our societies as in our social movements. 


KEYWORDS
Intersectionality; feminist theories; trans theories; queer theories; disability theories; social movements; body modifications; bodies; transsexuality; transability; voluntary amputation; BIID; disability; mutilation; pathologization; normality/abnormality; stigmatization; discourse; critical discourse analysis; norms; oppression; autonomy; bioethics.


RÉSUMÉ
Cette recherche se situe à la jonction des études féministes, trans et sur la production du handicap. Elle s’intéresse aux limites des analyses féministes intersectionnelles et leurs difficultés à considérer certains axes identitaires, telles l’identité de genre et les capacités, à travers l’analyse de deux cas de figure de modifications corporelles, soit la transsexualité et la transcapacité (transformation visant à acquérir un handicap). Cette thèse s’articule autour de la question suivante : quels sont les angles morts des analyses intersectionnelles et comment pouvons-nous y remédier? Pour répondre à cette question, cette thèse propose trois objectifs : 1) Participer aux questionnements critiques entourant certaines limites des analyses féministes intersectionnelles pour en diversifier les axes à partir de l’identité de genre et des capacités; 2) Remettre en question les présupposés conceptuels et les privilèges cisgenristes et (cis)capacitistes qui sous-tendent les discours négatifs entourant ces modifications corporelles et mettre en valeur les points de convergence entre les mouvements féministes, transactivistes et anticapacitistes pour instaurer des dialogues et des solidarités entre eux; 3) Fournir un modèle enrichi de l’intersectionnalité pouvant être déployé en études féministes, trans et sur la production du (trans)handicap, apte à répondre aux nouvelles revendications de justice de groupes opprimés, comme celles des personnes transsexuelles et transcapacitaires. À l’aide d’une méthodologie alliant l’analyse critique de discours, l’analyse archéologique et généalogique, les discours négatifs de certaines féministes et d’autres scientifiques sur ces transformations corporelles sont cartographiés et critiqués. Les réflexions présentées ici, s’inscrivant dans une approche poststructuraliste et queer, ne proposent pas une recherche des « origines » et des motivations de la transsexualité et de la transcapacité, mais plutôt une étude des discours négatifs vis-à-vis ces phénomènes et des systèmes normatifs qui sous-tendent ces discours. C’est sous cet angle que cette recherche constitue un apport important aux champs des savoirs, tant sur le plan théorique, normatif que politique : en se penchant sur deux cas de figure « extrêmes », elle met en lumière les normativités corporelles des régimes dominants, notamment cisgenriste et (cis)capacitiste, occultées tant dans nos sociétés que dans nos mouvements sociaux.


MOTS CLÉS
Intersectionnalité; théories féministes; théories trans; théories queers; théories sur le handicap; mouvements sociaux; modifications corporelles; corps; transsexualité; transcapacité; amputations volontaires; BIID; handicap; mutilations; pathologisation; normalité/anormalité; stigmatisation; discours; analyses critiques de discours; normes; oppressions; autonomie; bioéthique.

In recent years, legal scholars and practitioners as well as policymakers have focused unprecedented attention on the rights of parents with disabilities, particularly intellectual disabilities, and their children. At the same time, social scientists have developed a breadth of literature on the needs and experiences of these families. Nonetheless, a clear divide remains between the fields, resulting in ongoing discrimination and the unnecessary separation of many families headed by a parent with an intellectual disability. Hence, the overarching goal of this article is to explore how legal scholarship, advocacy, and policymaking can be better informed by social science. This Article begins with a brief historical perspective on how the rights of parents with intellectual disabilities have evolved over time. Analyzing the language in state dependency statutes and judicial decisions, this Article demonstrates the implicit and explicit bias that exists and the need for informed policies and adjudication. Next, the Article examines how the law can learn from social science by highlighting findings from current social science research concerning these families. Finally, the Article offers concluding thoughts about how decision-making in dependency cases as well as public policy can and should benefit from social science research.

Disability studies scholars and activists have long criticized and critiqued so-termed ‘charitable’ approaches to disability where the capitalization of individual disabled bodies to invoke pity are historically, socially, and politically circumscribed by paternalism. Disabled individuals have long advocated for civil and human rights in various locations throughout the globe, yet contemporary human rights discourses problematically co-opt disabled bodies as ‘evidence’ of harms done under capitalism, war, and other forms of conflict, while humanitarian non-governmental organizations often use disabled bodies to generate resources for their humanitarian projects.

It is the connection between civil rights and human rights, and this concomitant relationship between national and global, which foregrounds this groundbreaking book’s contention that disability studies productively challenge such human rights paradigms, which troublingly eschew disability rights in favor of exclusionary humanitarianism. It relocates disability from the margins to the center of academic and activist debates over the vexed relationship between human rights and humanitarianism. These considerations thus productively destabilize able-bodied assumptions that undergird definitions of personhood in civil rights and human rights by highlighting intersections between disability, race, gender ethnicity, and sexuality as a way to interrogate the possibilities (and limitations) of human rights as a politicized regime.
http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781472420916

In this paper, my aim is to elaborate disability movement praxis so that transnational struggles for justice over the production of impairment emerging from the Global South can be represented within the transnational frame of disability politics. The paper seeks to explore the potential of deepening socio-political understandings of impairment as a means to radically democratize disability movement politics at the transnational scale to encompass pluralist, yet subaltern, collective claims for justice. I am guided by the question: if impairment is the place that makes visible invisible debts, can the global disability rights movement begin a process of re-identification to open the boundaries of disability justice claims and develop a strategic orientation which recognizes those collective justice claims for geopolitically produced impairments?

Early Intervention has the potential to alter children's developmental trajectory significantly.  However, many EI services risk devaluing families' contribution to children's learning and development and children's varying strengths and competencies.  This research identified key characteristics of relationship-based EI services that place families at the centre of intervention.  The research is funded by a Winston Churchill Fellowship.

Instructions: This document contains example structured interview questions for agencies supporting persons with disabilities. The questions are based on the Community Support Skills Standards (available from HSRI http://www.hsri.org/cgi/hsri.cgi). We recommend that you choose questions that suit the needs of your agency and the people to be interviewed. We suggest your agency ask the same set of questions of all applicants for a particular position.

This paper discusses the impact of neoliberalism on disability policy and activism. The paper highlights the neoliberalisation of postsocialist disability policy, as well as the convergence between the neoliberal critique of welfare-state paternalism and the advocacy of disabled people’s movement for deinstitutionalisation and direct payments (personal assistance). The discussion is supported by examples from Bulgaria and the United Kingdom. In conclusion, the paper argues that neoliberalism confronts the disabled people’s movement with two difficult tasks: to defend self-determination while criticising market-based individualism, and to defend the welfare state while criticising expert-based paternalism.

You care about difference. In this exigent mood we begin to rework reflexivity through disability and trauma studies. Using performative writing, we trouble you, me, and we in order to uncouple analytical rigor from individual bodies and identities. As we consider violence, injury, and ability, we complicate an imperative for personal disclosure. While continuing to insist on accountability to privilege, we highlight queer vulnerabilities, alternative representation, and non-normative emotion. We draw together readers and writers in a recursive textual process, a feminist ethic attentive to inequality and suffering. We call this methodological presence with others reflexive caring.

Although mainstream psychology has received numerous critiques for its traditional approaches to disability-related research, proposals for alternative theory that can encompass the social, cultural, political, and historical features of disability are lacking. The social identity approach (SIA) offers a rich framework from which to ask research questions about the experience of disability in accordance with the critical insights found in disability studies (DS), the source for many of the most compelling critiques of disability psychology research. We review existing research considering the complementary social identity (Tajfel & Turner, 1979) and self-categorization (Turner, Hogg, Reicher, & Wetherell, 1987) theories to support our contention that the disability social category is a significant driving force in the
psychological experience of disability and to demonstrate the theoretical utility of the SIA. We suggest that a bridge between the critical epistemological perspectives found in disability studies and the methodological rigor and theoretical breadth and parsimony of a social identity approach is essential for examining the social psychological experience of disability in the 21st century. To conclude we explore the emergent possibilities for research in psychological science that can follow from a social identity approach to disability.

The authors, child psychiatrists and clinical psychologists, conducting team assessment of children with developmental disabilities (including autism spectrum disorder) for more than two decades, present some important in their view issues and recommendations concerning planning and proceeding of assessment and post-assessment meetings with parents. It is essential to ensure not only an accurate assessment protocol and diagnosis, but also to "attune" to parents in order to facilitate their understanding and more positive use of assessment outcome results. Parents need further support to "survive" psychically the post-assessment period and to provide for adequate interventions for their child.

This paper discusses the results of a study of the role of the computer in scaffolding pupils' interaction and its effects on the disabled (D) pupils' participation and inclusion in the context of socio-cultural theories and the ideals of inclusive education. The study investigated the interactions of pairs of D and non-disabled (ND) pupils working together on computer-based tasks, in mainstream primary schools in Cyprus. Twenty dyads of pupils (each comprising a D child and an ND peer) were observed and videotaped while working together at the computer. Data analyses were based on the collaborative nature of events for the non-verbal interaction and the functional–structural approaches for verbal interaction. Through application of video analyses, seven central aspects of interaction were identified: helping behaviours, motivation , self-confidence, peer-acceptance, affection, positive and negative socio-emotional status, and the input of the computer. Results of the study showed that the computer was a mediational scaffolding agent of the other six areas of the participants' interaction as it: (1) was an important interactional agent in initiating and terminating a conversation, (2) facilitated interaction and participation , as an intellectual and physical tool, (3) promoted different styles of interaction (not always positive ones) through the various input and output devices, by differentiating participation. Hence, the computer emerged as the third party in the collaborative activity which provided various opportunities and motivations for interaction. Introduction The study reported here was designed to investigate the types of interactions of pairs of pupils on computer-based collaborative learning (CBCL) tasks. In particular, the study

The Wiley Handbook of Diversity in Special Education is a state-of-the-art reference showcasing cutting-edge special education research with a focus on children and youth with disabilities from diverse cultural, ethnic, linguistic, and economic backgrounds.
*Cutting-edge special education research focusing on children and youth with disabilities from diverse cultural, ethnic, linguistic, and economic backgrounds
*An authoritative contribution to the field, this work charts a new path to effective interventions and sets an agenda for future research
*Addresses disabilities from an international perspective

Editorial The ultimate goal of management of all critical illnesses are to rehabilitate the patient up to optimum functional level and achieving quality of life and quality adjusted life years. Quality health care can be defined as providing the best possible outcome, safety and service. Quality patient care should be the first priority of every rehabilitation specialist [1]. Physiatrist or specialty of physical medicine and rehabilitation has been recognized as a method that can restore the functional capabilities of patients with disabilities or chronic diseases to become participants in their home and community. Successful rehabilitation to the level at which the individual can participate in the society provides is the basis for the restoration of hope and aspiration for creativity [2]. Medicine has been making highly significant progress in providing better health services. Acute medical and surgical services have successfully decreased mortality and extended life expectancy. As the success of surgical and medical care's increases, the proportions of patients survive to aged population group increases. Most of the aged people survive with chronic disease and disability, which require more rehabilitation. With the growing of geriatric population, the health care delivery system will be burdened with patients suffering from chronic diseases of musculoskeletal and neurological system. At the same time physiological reserves also declines in aged population. Due to physiological constraints of kidney, liver and many other organs in aged people, the role of pharmacological agents in ameliorating the symptoms has also become limited. Different modalities of physical treatment including exercise used in physical medicine helps the patients in alleviating pain and disability as well as reduce the vulnerability to detrimental

This paper discusses and evaluates the role of shared control approach in a BCI-based telepresence framework. Driving a mobile device by using human brain signals might improve the quality of life of people suffering from severely physical disabilities. By means of a bidirectional audio/video connection to a robot, the BCI user is able to interact actively with relatives and friends located in different rooms. However, the control of robots through an uncertain channel as a BCI may be complicated and exhaustive. Shared control can facilitate the operation of brain-controlled telepresence robots, as demonstrated by the experimental results reported here. In fact, it allows all subjects to complete a rather complex task, driving the robot in a natural environment along a path with several targets and obstacles, in shorter times and with less number of mental commands.

This paper is about how human services work people into place and how places are reworked by people. As an (auto)ethnographic research on community based services for “developmental disability”—seen as technologies for making social cohesion and development—it discusses rewards and risks when tooling knowledge to make people free.

In the present paper is studied an approach to accessibility for people with disabilities in Protected Areas, focusing on the area of information offered to visitors in the area of the National Marine Park of Alonissos-Northern Sporades (N.M.P.A.N.S.). At first accessible information material to the Information Center of the N.M.P.A.N.S. Management Body is examined. The findings and recommendations raised during the research process gave rise to the construction of information materials concerning the N.M.P.A.N.S. and react to the needs of people with visual impairments. Then, an evaluation of the material of the individuals surveyed and approved its suitability. The most informative material exhibits the Information Center of the Management Body, being an important means of visually impaired visitors. This action is a first step toward the realization of the difficult goal of accessibility for people with disabilities in N.M.P.A.N.S.

Since the birth of the Irish State, there have been three official terms for children with mental disabilities, ‘mental deficiency’, ‘mental handicap’ and ‘intellectual disability’. Each new term replaced the previous one; ‘mental deficiency’ became ‘mental handicap’, subsequently ‘mental handicap’ became ‘intellectual disability’. This thesis applied a Foucauldian Discourse analysis to the history of Irish Education to expose the hidden conditions that underpinned the aforementioned concepts, in order to answer the following questions: What factors brought a particular conceptual configuration in the classification of intellectual disability into play in the first instance? What made that configuration seem plausible and socially desirable? What changes or events happened that caused the conceptual configuration to be replaced? And did these changes cultivate marginalisation or demarginalisation? The first part of the analysis divided the history of Irish education into three different epistémè and labelled them, the Institution, the Birth of Special Education and the Birth of Social Inclusion. Foucauldian tools of analysis were applied to allow for the surfaces of emergence to be exposed and identified; thus, in turn revealing the frameworks of knowledge that were hidden underneath. This Webinar will discuss how the discourse analysis was applied and the main findings of the research.

3 dhjetori njihet si Dita Ndërkombëtare e Njerëzve me Aftësi të Kufizuara, prandaj edhe ne në këtë artikull do të mundohemi ta trajtojmë këtë temë nga këndvështrimi i mësimeve islame. Sipas konventave ndërkombëtare, njerëzit me nevoja të veçanta janë ata që për shkak të mungesës së ndonjë aftësie të caktuar fizike, shqisore ose mendore, të trashëguar nga lindja ose të fituar më vonë, nuk janë në gjendje t'i kryejnë punët e tyre vetë sikurse njerëzit e tjerë pa këto mungesa, porse kanë nevojë për mbështetje të formave të ndryshme, pra kanë nevoja më të veçanta e më të ndryshme nga njerëzit e tjerë. Sipas mësimeve kur'anore ne kuptojmë se në qendër të vëmendjes së fesë qëndron njeriu, të cilit edhe i drejtohet dhe destinohet feja. Kur'ani njeriun e quan «qenie të krijuar në formën më të mirë e më të bukur», e quan «qenie të nderuar me dinjitet», e quan «halif-mëkëmbës të Zotit në tokë, pra përgjegjës për gjithçka që ndodhet në të…» etj. Këta dhe tituj të tjerë kur'anorë flasin mjaft për statusin dhe pozitën e lartë që e gëzon ai në sytë e Zotit, në praninë e Tij. Vlera e njeriut te Zoti matet sipas besimit, ibadeteteve-adhurimeve, punëve të mira, devotshmërisë dhe të sjelljes së bukur morale. Këto janë përcaktuese në rritjen apo uljen e vlerës së njeriut, e jo struktura e tij fizike, ngjyra e lëkurës, gjuha, gjinia apo edhe të qenët i shëndoshë fizikisht ose invalid. Pikërisht për këtë Muhammedi a.s. ka thënë: «All-llahu nuk shikon as trupat tuaj e as format tuaja, por Ai shikon zemrat tuaja». (Muslimi) Sipas kësaj, diversiteti dhe shumëllojshmëria e njerëzve për nga aspekti i ngjyrës, i gjuhës, i mendimeve, i besimeve, i kulturave, i gjinisë, i të qenit i shëndoshë apo invalid për nga aspekti fizik etj., duhen shikuar si pasuri, si zengjinllëk, e assesi si mungesë, si noksanllëk, e aq më pak të jetë arsye për ta nënvlerësuar apo për ta tallur tjetrin, vetëm pse është ndryshe nga ne. Se kjo është kështu, sidomos kur janë në pyetje njerëzit me nevoja të veçanta ose me aftësi të kufizuara, këtë më së miri e shprehin anëtarët e familjes në të cilën ndodhet një ose disa njerëz të këtillë. Nga anëtarët «e shëndoshë» të familjes, këta njerëz me invaliditet ose me aftësi të kufizuara asnjëherë nuk shihen me përçmim, asnjëherë nuk shihen si të mangët e noksan, përkundrazi prezenca e tyre në shtëpi shikohet si diçka krejt normale, e vetëkuptueshme, bile-bile edhe më interesante, sepse kjo kërkon një angazhim dhe kujdes pak më të shtuar dhe pak më ndryshe kundrejt tyre dhe kjo e shton afërsinë jo vetëm fizike, por në veçanti atë emocionale midis tyre. Si në çdo shoqëri tjetër që ka pasur njerëz me nevoja të veçanta, ashtu edhe në kohën dhe shoqërinë e Muhammedit a.s. ka pasur të këtillë. I dërguar si mëshirë për mbarë botën, Muhammedi a.s. është kujdesur vetë në mënyrë të veçantë me këta njerëz dhe ka kërkuar nga të tjerët ta bëjnë të njëjtën. Ai ka komunikuar me ta, është interesuar për nevojat e tyre, i ka plotësuar nevojat e tyre, i ka zbuluar telentet dhe aftësitë e tjera të tyre, i ka integruar në shoqëri, i ka angazhaur madje dhe në sferën publike. Ndoshta rasti i vetëm ku Muhammedi a.s. nuk është kujdesur sa duhet, ku ndofta ka shprehur një shpërfillje jo qëllimkeqe ndaj një personi me nevoja të veçanta dhe për çka

On the whole, this dissertation aims to address an overarching research question, i.e. how the right of education of persons with disabilities can be best protected and promoted to fulfil the obligations laid down in Article 24 UNCRPD. This dissertation in consonance with the UNCRPD, adopts a broad conception of disability as informed by the social model of disability.

True to the field of Cultural Disability Studies in Education (CDSE), this project adopts an explicitly interdisciplinary approach in order to explore representations of disability and the related social attitudes and experiences. Disability studies and radio studies are brought together to predicate and inform the analysis of a sample of education-centred discussions featured in In Touch, a long-running BBC Radio 4 programme made for, and by, people who have visual impairments. Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is applied to the sub-themes of mainstream-special schooling and social interaction, which are organised in accordance with the tripartite model of disability in order to avoid one-dimensional readings. The project cuts across the mainstream-special binary and reveals the epistemological value of non-normative community in both preparing for, and succeeding in, 21st-century academia.

Purpose. To apply Rasch analysis to the Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II) responses of a mixed neurorehabilitation sample to determine its suitability for assessing depression among this group. Method. Three hundred and fifteen in-patients undergoing post-acute specialist in-patient rehabilitation at the Regional Rehabilitation Unit (RRU) of Northwick Park Hospital in North London were administered the Beck Depression Inventory. All patients were administered the BDI-II by a clinical psychologist using a large print version and taking as much time as patients required. Rasch analysis was completed using the RUMM2020 software. Where disordered thresholds were identified item rescoring was undertaken. Each item was also examined for Differential Item Functioning. Where misfit to model expectations was identified items were removed in an iterative fashion. The effect of any deletion upon person estimates was examined. Specific tests of unidimensionality were undertaken at each iterative phase. Results. Rescoring was necessary before Items 1-4, 6, 8-12, 20 and 21 showed ordered thresholds. Three items failed to satisfy model expectations -items 16 (changes in sleeping pattern), 18 (changes in appetite) and 21 (loss of interest in sex) and were deleted -after which good overall fit to the Rasch model was observed. The three items deleted affected person estimates in a significant way such that the 21 item version in this group of patients may be biased because of multidimensionality.

The intent of this book is to serve as a guide for teachers, teachers in training, and other service providers to engage in understanding and analyzing inclusion to help prepare them for how they can best teach and serve all students, including those with a disability. These case studies provide a guide for analyzing real life situations and will help readers to become a better teacher and service provider. Too often the inclusion planning process only looks at a few areas and not a comprehensive analysis of skill and support needs. This book provides the framework for analyzing these areas.

The Americans With Disabilities Act, along with the ADA Amendments Act, court decisions, and technological advances, have combined to create a situation which, at the time of original ADA’s passage in 1990, would have been virtually unthinkable—employees with some disabilities now have the right to legally demand that they be allowed to work from home. With the advancing age of the workforce, and increases in networking abilities to link the home into the office, the number of employers facing said demands is certain to increase. The following is a guide for analyzing and dealing with said demands.

The problem of mental retardation / intellectual disability is constantly evolving. The main element pointing to the essence of functioning of people with intellectual disabilities is a person's position in the society (Błeszyński, 2013, pp. 11-25; J. L. Aber …, 1997, p. 463). “The number of children with select developmental disabilities (autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and other developmental delays) has increased, requiring more health and education services. Additional study of the influence of risk-factor shifts, changes in acceptance, and benefits of early services is needed” (C. A.Boyle, …, 2011, p. 1034). As indicated by D. D. Smitrz, the twenty-first century brought a paradigm shift from the traditionally negative conception (as a lack or limitation), to a more positive conception, in the spirit of R. Luckasson. The new approach highlighted the importance of the search for the capacity of each person and the environment in which this person lives, lear...

The Syrian crisis has generated the largest refugee movement since the Rwandan genocide and is described as the defining refugee crisis of our era. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres, Syrian refugees are about to replace Afghans as the world’s largest refugee population. 1 Within this refugee population older, disabled and injured refugees face specific challenges that contribute to their vulnerability, yet, studies of humanitarian programming show that these same groups are often neglected in the assessment, data collection, design and delivery of responses. Therefore, in October and November 2013, Handicap International and HelpAge International undertook a research project to highlight the number and needs of Syrian refugees in Jordan and Lebanon living with impairment, 2 injury 3 and chronic disease 4 – for the purposes of this study these groups are referred to as “people with specific needs”. Throughout the report specific consider...

Purpose. While lower limb prosthetic prescription is reliant on many physical indicators, it is clear that psychosocial factors need to be emphasised to a greater extent within this field if the needs of users are to be appropriately addressed. The aim of this study is to explore and identify the outcomes of prosthetic prescription through qualitative inquiry. Method. Six focus groups with prosthetic service users and 10 semi-structured interviews with service providers were conducted and then analysed with inductive thematic analysis. Results. The outcomes identified were: independence, not being in a wheelchair, balance and safety, improved quality of life and reaching potential. Conclusions. These emergent themes challenge the predominating focus on physical functioning that many practitioners have. These findings are important for developing a user-based model of service provision and outcome evaluation.

This study aimed to identify subgroups with distinct trajectories of functional (HAQ) progression over 10 years following diagnosis of RA and identify baseline characteristics associated with the trajectories and their prognostic value for mortality. Between 1986 and 1998, 1460 patients with RA symptoms <2 years and prior to disease-modifying treatment (DMARDs) were recruited to an inception cohort (Early RA Study). Standard clinical, functional and laboratory assessments were performed at presentation and annually. Deaths were tracked by the National Health Service Central Register. Growth mixture modelling was used to identify distinct trajectories of HAQ score progression and survival analysis employed to compare all-cause mortality across the trajectory classes. Four HAQ score progression classes were identified: moderate increasing (46%), low stable (6%), moderate stable (28%) and high stable (20%). Only the moderate-increasing class exhibited an accelerated decline in funct...