Disability Studies
Equality and diversity
Value incommensurability and the politics of recognition
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. This important book explores the values of equality and diversity as promoted across liberal societies, drawing on various traditions of political and social philosophy, and applying them to policy and practice debates.
Education, disability and social policy
This new edition of the milestone book Education, Disability and Social Policy outlines critical debates in education concerning the position and experiences of disabled children and young people within a contemporary policy context.
Disability and poverty
A global challenge
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. This book explores the lived realities of people with disabilities from across the developing world and examines how the coping strategies of individuals and families emerge in different contexts.
Disability and social change
Private lives and public policies
This book provides a socio-historical account of the changing treatment of disabled people in Britain from the 1940s to the present day. It asks whether life has really changed for disabled people and shows the value of using biographical methods in new and critical ways to examine social and historical change over time.
People with intellectual disabilities
Towards a good life?
What does it mean to have a good life? Why has it proved so difficult for people with intellectual disabilities to live one? This important book explores these questions, provides an analysis of related policies and underpinning ideologies and looks to how a good life may be made more attainable.
Working futures?
Disabled people, policy and social inclusion
Working futures? looks at the current effectiveness and future scope for enabling policy in the field of disability and employment.
Making Valuing People Work
Strategies for change in services for people with learning disabilities
This timely report examines the strategic changes that are occurring within learning disability services as a result of the 2001 Valuing People White Paper. It offers evidence-based examples of good practice for all those involved in planning strategic changes to, or implementing change within, services for people with learning disabilities.
Thriving and surviving at work
Disabled people's employment strategies
This report breaks explores how disabled people who are already in work get and keep paid work. Drawing on experiences of disabled people themselves, it looks at difficulties experienced, the strategies they adopt and the policy context in which they work. The authors are all disabled people with a mix of practice and academic experience.
Parenting and disability
Disabled parents' experiences of raising children
This book reports on the first substantial UK study of parenting, disability and mental health. It examines the views of parents and children in 75 families. Covering a broad spectrum of issues facing disabled parents and their families, it provides a comprehensive review of relevant policy issues.
Disabled people and European human rights
A review of the implications of the 1998 Human Rights Act for disabled children and adults in the UK
In the year 2000, the Human Rights Act 1998 came into force. This book reviews the implications of the Act for disabled people.
Housing matters
National evidence relating to disabled children and their housing
Housing Matters presents evidence to support and inform change in policy and practice to ensure that the housing needs of disabled children and their families are better met.
Information and joining up services
The case of an information guide for parents of disabled children
This best practice guide to providing information for users of multi-agency services for disabled children is an invaluable resource for professionals, parents and carers.