HUS202 Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Catalog description: Students survey the sub‐field of human services work with people with disabling conditions, intellectual disabilities, learning disorders, social, emotional and behavioral disorders, sensory impairments, and speech and language disorders. Students study perspectives on disability and current diagnostic definitions, critically review the impact of labels on the individual, family and society and discuss and evaluate the way in which social policy affects those with disabling conditions. Classroom sessions are also used to develop and strengthen practice skills for direct support professionals.
Recommended Books
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The Disability Studies Reader by Call Number: Ebook Central
ISBN: 9780415630528Publication Date: 2013The 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. New histories of the legal, social, and cultural give a broader picture of disability than ever before.
Bodies of Truth: Personal Narratives on Illness, Disability, and Medicine by Call Number: Ebsco EbookISBN: 9781496203601Publication Date: 2019Bodies of Truth offers perspectives on a wide array of issues, from food allergies, cancer, and neurology to mental health, autoimmune disorders, and therapeutic music. These experiences are recounted by patients, nurses, doctors, parents, children, caregivers, and others who attempt to articulate the intangible human and emotional factors that surround life when it intersects with the medical field.
Enabling Acts: The Hidden Story of How the Americans with Disabilities Act Gave the Largest US Minority Its Rights by Call Number: EbscoPublication Date: 2015A behind-the-scenes account of the passing of the ADA—the moment when millions of Americans won their civil rights. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is the widest-ranging and most comprehensive piece of civil rights legislation ever passed in the United States, and it has become the model for disability-based laws around the world.
Disability and Identity by Call Number: EbscoPublication Date: 2013Rosalyn Darling offers a sweeping examination of disability identity, tracing its history and parsing the shifting forces that have shaped individual and societal understandings of ability and impairment across time.
Learning Disabilities Sourcebook by Call Number: Ebook CentralPublication Date: 2012Provides basic consumer health information about the signs, symptoms, and diagnosis of various learning disabilities and other conditions that impact learning, along with facts about early intervention and the special education process, advice for coping at home and school, and handling the transition to adulthood. Includes index, glossary of related terms, and other resources.
Borderlands of Blindness by Call Number: EbscoPublication Date: 2011An exploration of the lives of the legally blind, revealing how society responds to those who don't fit neatly into the disabled/nondisabled binary.
Disability Histories by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9780252096693Publication Date: 2015Essays that integrate critical analysis of gender, race, historical context, and other factors to enrich and challenge the traditional modes of interpretation still dominating the field. Contributors delve into four critical areas of study within disability history: family, community, and daily life; cultural histories; the relationship between disabled people and the medical field; and issues of citizenship, belonging, and normalcy.
Transforming Troubled Lives by Call Number: Ebook CentralPublication Date: 2012As inclusive practice becomes more embedded in the policy and practice of schools around the globe, there remains groups of children and young people for whom education is a problem because of the behaviours, poor emotional development and lack of social skills. These pupils often display disaffection towards education and are to be found on the margins of mainstream schools - too often they dropout of schooling altogether. Drawing on papers and discussions at the third International Conference of SEBDA in 2010 at Keble College, Oxford, UK, the papers in this volume both describe and critically examine strategies and interventions in meeting the educational and well being needs of these children and young people.
Recommended Journals & Databases
Human Services Journals
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- Advances in Social WorkDOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals 01/01/2000 - present; articles will appear in DiscoverDeWitt search results.
- Child & Family Social WorkAcademic Search Complete 1998 to one year ago
- Clinical Social Work JournalSocial Sciences Full Text 1997 to one year ago
- Health & Social Care in the CommunityAcademic Search Complete 01/01/1998 to one year ago
- Journal of Human Servicesformerly Human Service Education; Education Source 2003-present.
- Policy & PracticeAcademic Search Complete 1990 - present
- Social WorkAcademic Search Complete 1975 - 1 year ago