San Antonio College Library

"The Fourth Edition of the Disability Studies Reader breaks new ground by emphasizing the global, transgender, homonational, and posthuman conceptions of disability. Including physical disabilities, but exploring issues around pain, mental disability, and invisible disabilities, this edition explores more varieties of bodily and mental experience."--Publisher's description.

This program examines the issue of aging for individuals with severe disabilities. When these individuals turn 21, they age out of a system of funding and services that help provide the 24-hour support they need. In some cases, it can take decades for severely disabled adults to get into group homes. However, there is a new approach to providing care in British Columbia.

Discusses the causes and limitations of various disabilities including blindness, deafness, orthopedic defects, and brain injury, how these handicaps can be overcome, and attitudes toward handicapped persons.

A young man struggling for self-realization, Philip Carey becomes caught in a destructive love affair with a waitress, in a novel about sexual obsession, self-discovery, and the complexities of human relationships.

Detecting peripheral artery disease early may prevent diabetes-related amputations.

When Derrick Coleman was growing up, kids called him "Four Ears." He couldn't hide his bulky hearing aids, and he could not hear without them. So he drowned out the bullies and focused on the one thing he felt leveled the playing field: football. Colemanbecame a Super Bowl champion with the Seattle Seahawks. Vital Signs explore the most common sensory disorder, hearing loss, which affects 360 million people worldwide. From revolutionary research about...

When Micky Bellsong encounters disabled Leilani Klonk and her stepfather, Preston Maddoc, she finally finds some purpose in her troubled life, so when the family disappears, Micky embarks on an arduous mission to find them.

Disability Rhetoric is the first book to view rhetorical theory and history through the lens of disability studies. Traditionally, the body has been seen as, at best, a rhetorical distraction; at worst, those whose bodies do not conform to a narrow range of norms are disqualified from speaking. Yet, Dolmage argues that communication has always been obsessed with the meaning of the body and that bodily difference is always highly rhetorical. Following...

Profiles six people who faced severe disability early in life and who surmounted the many complex problems associated with disability to achieve independence as a self-sufficient citizen.