Title Significant disability : issues affecting people with significant disabilities from a historical, policy, leadership, and systems perspective / edited by E. Davis Martin, Jr. ; with a foreword by John S. Oehler

Published Springfield, Ill. : Charles C Thomas, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 225 pages) Contents Significant disability : an overview of the issues / E. Davis Martin, Jr. -- Disability in America : a history of policies and trends / Steven J. Taylor and Stanford J. Searl -- Disability in America : controversy, debate, and backlash / Steven J. Taylor and Stanford J. Searl -- Disability in America : the legislative response / E. Davis Martin, Jr. -- Patrick's metamorphosis / J. Dewey Brown and Patricia Johnson Brown -- How I got here / John P. Coates -- A voice to heed / Ann Tucker Durden -- I'm blind : what about it! / Robin Fischer Hoerber -- Richard's journey / Ruth Mackey Martin and E. Davis Martin, Jr. -- My big brother / Michele Martin Murmer -- My invisible disability : chronic pain / Michael D. Payne -- Leadership and advocacy : a political primer / James A. Rothrock -- Adaptation to disability / Justin S. Rybacki -- To make a difference / Charles C. Wakefield, Jr. -- Lessons learned : implications for system change / E. Davis Martin, Jr Summary This text will provide the reader with a comprehensive overview of the issues that affect people with significant disabilities from a historical, policy, leadership, and systems perspective. The text will be particularly useful in either graduate or advanced undergraduate courses for prospective rehabilitation counselors, teachers, community mental health professionals, social workers, psychologists, case managers, or allied health professionals. A major goal of the text is to transmit the ideal of living, working, and playing in the community - an ideal that has often been denied to persons who have significant disabilities Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject People with disabilities -- Government policy -- United States People with disabilities -- Rehabilitation -- United States People with disabilities -- Mental health -- United States Social work with people with disabilities -- United States Sociology of disability -- United States People with disabilities. Medical policy. Human rights. Disabled Persons Health Policy Human Rights Rehabilitation Social Support SOCIAL SCIENCE -- People with Disabilities. People with disabilities Medical policy Human rights People with disabilities -- Government policy People with disabilities -- Mental health People with disabilities -- Rehabilitation Social work with people with disabilities Sociology of disability SUBJECT United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 Subject United States Form Electronic book Author Martin, E. Davis. ISBN 9780398083946 0398083940

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