In this ground-breaking new work, Dan Goodley makes the case for a novel, distinct,
intellectual, and political project–dis/ability studies–an orientation that might encourage us to …

Disability luminary Mike Oliver is joined by Colin Barnes in this agenda-setting response to a
capitalist society faced with globalisation, financial instability and lower public expenditure …

Recently there has been discussion about the emergence of critical disability studies. In this
paper I provide an inevitably partial and selective account of this trans-disciplinary space …

Disabled people experience profound discrimination and social disadvantage, but this has
not generated substantial interest among mainstream sociologists. Barnes, Mercer and …

This chapter examines the origins of the social model. It addresses the various debates that
have emerged since the late 1990s and argue that, without the social model of disability …

Background Inter‐professional collaboration (IPC) has been recommended for many years
as a means by which the needs of children with developmental language disorders (DLD) …

Intellectual disability is a severely understudied topic within psychology. It is rarely woven
into the curriculum of mainstream psychology departments and often left for other disciplines …

Description: Second Edition.| New York: Routledge, 2020.| Series: Routledge international
handbooks| Revised edition of Routledge handbook of disability studies, 2012.| Includes …

Moving away from clinical, medical or therapeutic perspectives on disability, this book
explores disability in India as a social, cultural and political phenomenon, arguing that …

Disability studies has engaged with discourse analysis in key works both from the UK and
the USA. While the perspectives and analyses of discourse analysis have proved well suited …