Research has demonstrated that overt and covert experiences of prejudice and discrimination have been associated with increased stress and distress among people with disabilities (Emerson, 2010; Mazur, 2008), a population with higher than expected rates of mental health concerns…
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This study explored the perceptions of disability from the perspectives of Ethiopian immigrant parents who have children with disabilities. The study was guided by the research question: How do Ethiopian immigrant parents from the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, who have chi…
There are many challenges that face individuals with disabilities and their families during the transition period from childhood to adulthood. As young adolescents exit high school many of their future transition options are influenced by their family context, especially the chi…
When hearing parents in the United States receive the diagnosis of prelingual deafness for a child, they enter a historically disputatious social field that few, if any, have the slightest notion of previously. What counts as the “proper” intervention to offer parents mirrors lo…
Dezavantajlılık, günümüzde her toplumda gittikçe önemi artmakta, tartışılmakta ve çözüm önerileri ve uygulamaları geliştirilmeye çalışılmakta olan bir sorundur. Yaşlılar, bağımlılar, sokakta yaşayan çocuklar, göçmenler vb. grupların yanı sıra bu tez çalışmasının konusu olan enge…
Background and objectives of the study. Hip fractures are prevalent among older adults and recognized to be a major public health problem in many Western nations. Hip fractures, particularly in elderly, result in loss of independence in ambulation, limits in activities of daily …
Managing Death: Diagnosing the "New " Eugenics in Canadian Legal Discourses and Narratives of Disability, examines how three twentieth-century Canadian legal cases---Henry Morgentaler, Sue Rodriguez, and Robert Latimer---inform and problematize Canada's concept of itself as a li…
This study addressed the parenting experiences of adults in Israel who have a vision impairment ranging from partial sight to total blindness. It was framed within the overarching study problem of disability and was grounded in a social model of disability that identifies disabi…
This thesis argues that the unprecedented number of veteran amputees after the Civil War assumed symbolic importance in the United States and continued to play an important role in American culture for 150 years. The symbolism of the amputee linked military service and political…
This study highlights the challenges inherent in attempting to explore and characterize special education models of practice in developing nations. Many such nations, where individuals with disabilities have traditionally been excluded from mainstream education, are increasingly…
This study brings together the approaches to agency put forth in action theory, discursive psychology, and literary theory in the context of disability discourse to explore the construction and negotiation of agency in communication across ability-status between an Omani quadrip…
Teacher burnout is an important issue that needs to be understood in the educational environment. This study examines the burnout of general education teachers in inclusion settings, what may influence burnout, and the relationship between burnout and classroom and teacher facto…
Study design . This is a descriptive study with repeated measurements taken initially, 2 days, and 4 weeks later. Validation of a translated, culturally adapted outcome measure; the Oswestry disability index. Objectives . To translate and culturally adapt the Oswestry disability…
Taking theoretical cues from the history of the body, gender studies, and disability history, this dissertation's focus is a fundamental locus of individual and collective identity: the human body. It analyzes two principal markers of difference that are inscribed on people's bo…
The purpose of the study is to understand the relationship of a Somali immigrant and refugee group and the phenomena of disability. Through the use of qualitative research, I seek to understand the social phenomena from the participants' point of view in one urban Midwestern cit…
This study investigates writings about "people of blights" ( ahl al-'ahat in Arabic) - a category that included physically different, disabled and ill individuals - that circulated among a group of Muslim male scholars connected by the social bonds of friendship and academic men…
In the mid-1250s, King Louis IX founded one of the first hospitals for the permanently disabled in western Europe which became known as the Quinze-Vingts because of the three hundred blind residents and sighted guides that he intended it to house. This foundation occurred in Par…
Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature examines the concepts and role of women in selected Spanish discourses and literary texts from the late fifteenth to seventeenth centuries from the perspective of feminist disability theories. It explores a wide range of Spanish…
Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature examines the concepts and role of women in selected Spanish discourses and literary texts from the late fifteenth to seventeenth centuries from the perspective of feminist disability theories. It explores a wide range of Spanish…