Featured “Physical Disability”:
- Fitness Programming and Physical Disability
- Conditioning with Physical Disabilities
- College Success for Students With Physical Disabilities
- Fictions of Affliction: Physical Disability in Victorian Culture (Corporealities: Discourses of Disability)
- Career Success for People with Physical Disabilities (VGM Career Books)
- Accessible Gardening for People With Physical Disabilities: A Guide to Methods, Tools, and Plants
- Seating and Mobility for Persons With Physical Disabilities
- Cinema Of Isolation: A History of Physical Disability in the Movies
- Individual Education Plans Physical Disabilities and Medical Conditions
Fitness Programming and Physical Disability
No single book offers more information for developing and conducting exercise programs for groups that include people with physical disabilities. In Fitness Programming and Physical Disability, a dozen authorities in exercise science and adapted exercise programming explain how to effectively and safely modify existing programs for individuals with physical disabilities--without changing the quality or nature of the activity. Fitness Programming and Physical Disability is an important reference for health fitness instructors, rehabilitation specialists, and fitness directors who design and lead group exercise programs. The book is also used as the text for Disabled Sports USA's "Fitness Is For EveryoneSM" Adaptive Fitness Instructor Certification Workshops. The book is organized in four parts that guide the reader from theory into practice. Part I, an introduction, describes several common physical disabilities, provides insights to help exercise leaders better understand and communicate with people with disabilities, and draws attention to potential barriers that may limit access to community programs.Part II explores the effects of physical disabilities on exercise and training, with particular emphasis on how physically disabling conditions may alter the structure and function of the physiological systems that interact to support aerobic and anaerobic exercise. Part III offers guidelines for adapting specific fitness programs, such as resistance training, stretching, and aerobic dance, to meet the unique needs of people with physical disabilities. Part IV provides practical guidelines for managing accessible fitness programs, including program development and promotion, handling medical emergencies in an exercise situation, tips for working with program participants
Price: $ 20.00
Conditioning with Physical Disabilities
Conditioning With Physical Disabilities is the first practical, authoritative exercise guide for people with all classifications and levels of physical disabilities. Kevin Lockette and Ann Keyes share the successful strength and conditioning programme they created at the highly regarded Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. Their pioneering programme is now the leading exercise approach for people with physical disabilities. This highly readable fitness manual contains safe, easy-to-use exercises, accompanied by step-by-step descriptions and more than 250 helpful illustrations. And because the exercise programmes are tailored to specific disabilities and levels of functioning, virtually anyone-regardless of disability-will be able to use Conditioning With Physical Disabilities and enjoy the rewards of physical activity.Price: $ 65.16
College Success for Students With Physical Disabilities
College Success for Students With Physical Disabilities is a college planning guide for students with physical disabilities and chronic medical conditions. Students will learn about their rights under the laws governing education and disability, self-advocacy, choosing a college, how having a physical disability affects admissions testing, the increased responsibilities in college, and how to make sure they get everything they need. The book contains forms, checklists, interviews with other students, advice from college disability services personnel, and profiles of disability-friendly colleges across the United States.Price: $ 12.27
Fictions of Affliction: Physical Disability in Victorian Culture (Corporealities: Discourses of Disability)
"Highly recommended . . . Holmes moves seamlessly from novelists like Charles Dickens to sociologists like Henry Mayhew to autobiographers like John Kitto."---Choice "An absolutely stunning book that will make a significant contribution to both Victorian literary studies and disability studies."
---Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Emory University "Establishes that Victorian melodrama informs many of our contemporary notions of disability . . . We have inherited from the Victorians not pandemic disability, but rather the complex of sympathy and fear."
---Victorian Studies Tiny Tim, Clym Yeobright, Long John Silver---what underlies nineteenth-century British literature's fixation with disability? Melodramatic representations of disability pervaded not only novels, but also doctors' treatises on blindness, educators' arguments for "special" education, and even the writing of disabled people themselves. Drawing on extensive primary research, Martha Stoddard Holmes introduces readers to popular literary and dramatic works that explored culturally risky questions like "can disabled men work?" and "should disabled women have babies?" and makes connections between literary plots and medical, social, and educational debates of the day. Martha Stoddard Holmes is Associate Professor of Literature and Writing Studies at California State University, San Marcos.
Price: $ 9.99
Career Success for People with Physical Disabilities (VGM Career Books)
Discusses careers for physically challenged people, tells how to focus on ability not disability, create great resumes, and prepare for job interviews.Price: $ 40.00
Accessible Gardening for People With Physical Disabilities: A Guide to Methods, Tools, and Plants
Presents all the information and practical know-how necessary for designing, planting, and maintaining a garden that suits the special needs of young and older gardeners with physical disabilities. Dozens of mail-order sources are provided for the many tools, seeds, plants, and other materials discussed.People who feel that their gardening days are over or those who think that enjoying gardening is not an option due to physical limitations imposed by such conditions as spina bifida, arthritis, or cerebral palsy will be delighted by Janeen Adil's approach to outdoor work in Accessible Gardening. Adil has done thorough research into methods, materials, information sources, and specially designed gardening equipment to provide a new way of looking at gardening. For example, if getting down to ground level is a potential problem for a gardener, raising planting beds to wheelchair level will bring the ground up to the gardener. This useful book will allow thousands of people to get back out into the garden. Price: $ 9.89
Seating and Mobility for Persons With Physical Disabilities
The right equipment for seating and mobility needs can enhance the health, independence, and comfort of people who use wheelchairs. Seating and Mobility for Persons with Physical Disabilities is an invaluable guide to evaluating the needs of these wheel chair-bound individuals. For years, the staff of the Rehabilitation Engineering Program at the University of Tennessee at Memphis has conducted workshops for professionals worldwide. Much of the book's material evolved from the lectures and handouts prepared for these courses. With each workshop and seminar, it became evident that many professionals need training in the basics-that the technology is available, but the question is, how should clients be evaluated and helped to decide the most appropriate technology for them? The content of this 300-page manual is geared toward helping clinicians develop the skills to be good evaluators and problem-solvers for their clients who require seating and mobility technology. The book reflects the collective experiences and opinions of the five authors-Elaine Trefler, M.Ed., OTR, FAOTA; Douglas A. Hobson, Ph.D.; Susan Johnson Taylor, B.S., OTR/L; Lynn C. Monahan, M.P.A., OTR; and C. Greg Shaw, M.Sc. Based on their extensive clinical experience and research findings, this text covers: *Disability-specific guidelines for fitting and prescribing equipment *The broad range of technology currently available *How to determine the type of mobility device(s) a person needs *The biomechanics of movement, pressure management, position, and stability *RESNA's Standardization of Terminology and Descriptive Methods for SpecializedPrice: $ 57.00
Cinema Of Isolation: A History of Physical Disability in the Movies
"Offers an historically detailed examination of how Hollywood has depicted the physically disabled experience . . . thoughtfully argued and well documented. . . . Anyone interested in how mainstream movies have shaped our images of the world ought to carefully read this fine book." --Douglas Gomery, author of The Hollywood Studio System "I enjoyed this book from its terrific title to its skillful interweaving of movie history with disability history. . . . It makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of where America gets its myths and stereotypes of disability." --Joseph Shapiro, author of No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement Filmmakers have often encouraged us to regard people with physical disabilities in terms of pity, awe, humor, or fear--as "Others" who somehow deserve to be isolated from the rest of society. In this first history of the portrayal of physical disability in the movies, Martin Norden examines hundreds of Hollywood films (and notable international ones), finds their place within mainstream society, and uncovers the movie industry's practices for maintaining the status quo--keeping people with disabilities dependent and "in their place." Norden offers a dazzling array of physically disabled characters who embody or break out of these stereotypes that have both influenced and been symptomatic of society's fluctuating relationship with its physically diabled minority. He shows us "sweet innocents" like Tiny Tim, "obsessive avengers" like Quasimodo, variations on the disabled veteran,Price: $ 17.49
Individual Education Plans Physical Disabilities and Medical Conditions
This text forms part of the series outlining the principles of IEP planning and practice, with reference to pupils who have physical disabilities or medical conditions. The challenges and opportunities are considered in the following issues: how can teachers develop a truly educational perspective to deal with the demands of traditional medical approaches, disability rights and social responsibility?; what is the role of IEPs in ensuring true equality of opportunity and entitlement through an individualised programme?; what kind of targets are required and how can an educational balance be achieved in collaboration with health and other services?; and what systems in school are necessary to support effective IEPs in this area and what kind of training is needed to implement them?. The text provides ideas and activities to support institutional self-review and development which are produced in a photocopiable format.Price: $ 38.13
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