Examines issues surrounding intellectual and developmental disabilities in a real-world socio-political framework. This book also summarizes the major domains and emerging subspecialties of this area and offers a range of assessment and diagnostic tools and tactics, including co…
Coulter considers the relationship of vaccination to autism, hyperactivity, allergies, autoimmune diseases, and learning disabilities. He carries his argument into the social realm, suggesting a connection between neurological damage and the present high level of criminality in …
Introduction. 1. Science, Society, and Mental Retardation, A History. 2. Neurogenesis, Neuronal Migration, Maturation, and Function: Insights into Learning and Memory. 3. Structural Brain Anomalies and Neural Tube Defects. 4. Mental Retardation Associated with Dysmorphology, Gro…
Questions of consent : rethinking competence and sexual abuse -- Pleasure principles : from harm reduction to diversity in sex education -- Sex can wait, masturbate : the politics of masturbation training -- Reproductive intrusions : the fight against forced sterilization -- Not…
"Why is the sexuality of people with intellectual disabilities often deemed 'risky' or 'inappropriate' by teachers, parents, support staff, medical professionals, judges, and the media? Should sexual citizenship depend on IQ? Confronting such questions directly, Already Doing It…
"Why is the sexuality of people with intellectual disabilities often deemed 'risky' or 'inappropriate' by teachers, parents, support staff, medical professionals, judges, and the media? Should sexual citizenship depend on IQ? Confronting such questions directly, Already Doing It…
1. Introduction -- 2. Exclusion -- 3. Intelligence -- 4. Difference -- 5. Causes -- 6. Development -- 7. Assessment -- 8. Autism and its creation -- 9. Autism in context -- 10. Conclusion.
The social position of learning disabled people has shifted rapidly over the last 20 years, from long-stay institutions, first into community homes and day centres, and now to a currently emerging goal of "ordinary lives" for individuals using person-centred support and personal…
Intellectual Disability and Psychotherapy: The Theories, Practice and Influence of Valerie Sinasoncharts the transformative impact of the noted psychotherapist's work with children and adults with intellectual disabilities upon both a generation of clinicians and the treatment a…
Der vorliegende Band gibt einen umfassenden und mit vielen Fallbeispielen versehenen Überblick zu den besonderen diagnostischen und therapeutischen Herausforderungen bei Verhaltensauffälligkeiten und psychischen Störungen bei Kindern und Erwachsenen mit intellektueller Beeinträc…
The field of disability studies significantly contributes to contemporary discussions of the marginalization of and social justice for individuals with disabilities. However, what of disability in the past? The Medieval Disability Sourcebook: Western Europe explores what medieva…
The field of disability studies significantly contributes to contemporary discussions of the marginalization of and social justice for individuals with disabilities. However, what of disability in the past? The Medieval Disability Sourcebook: Western Europe explores what medieva…
