RDS Volume 2, No. 4
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Item type: Item , Audio Review: Lest We Forget: Spoken Histories, An Audio Documentary on State Institutions, Segregation and the Continuing Movement to Community Integration(University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2007) Brown, Steven E.Producer: Jeff Moyer Executive Producer: Judy Leasure Reviewer: Steven E. Brown Publisher: Music from the Heart and Partners for Community Living, 2004 2 CD-Disc Set, approximately 2 hours www.jeffmoyer.comItem type: Item , Music Review: Tear Down the Walls(University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2007) Brown, Steven E.Artist: Johnny Crescendo Reviewer: Steven E. Brown Produced: 2005 Cost: $18.00 USD adaptdan@yahoo.com http://www.johnnycrescendo.com/index.html or send a check payable to Johnny Crescendo 800 Cottman Ave. Apt. B1 160 Philadelphia PA. 19111Item type: Item , Book Review: The Language of Me(University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2007) Brown, Steven E.Author: Musa E. Zulu Reviewer: Steven E. Brown Publisher: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2004 Cloth, ISBN: 1 86914 00370, 116 pages Cost: $24.95Item type: Item , Book Review: Encounters with the Invisible: Unseen Illness, Controversy, and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome(University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2007) Brown, Steven E.Author: Dorothy Wall Reviewer: Steven E. Brown Publisher: Southern Methodist University, 2005 Cloth, ISBN: 0-87074-504-2, 318 pages Cost: $22.50 USDItem type: Item , Book Review: Moving Over the Edge: Artists with Disabilities Take the Leap(University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2007) Brown, Steven E.Author: Pamela Kay Walker Reviewer: Steven E. Brown Publisher: M. Horton Media, 2005 Paper, ISBN 0-9771505-2-6, 243 pages Cost: $25.00 USDItem type: Item , Book Review: On a Roll: Reflections from America’s Wheelchair Dude With the Winning Attitude(University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2007) Brown, Steven E.Author: Greg Smith Reviewer: Steven E. Brown Publisher: On a Roll Communications, 2005 Paper, ISBN 0-9767111-0-9, 279 pages Cost: $19.95 USDItem type: Item , Book Review: My Body Politic: A Memoir(University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2007) Brown, Steven E.Author: Simi Linton Reviewer: Steven E. Brown Publisher: The University of Michigan Press, 2006 Cloth, ISBN: 0-472-11539-1, 246 pages Cost: $25.95 USDItem type: Item , Book Review: Eavesdropping: A Memoir of Blindness and Listening(University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2007) Brown, Steven E.Author: Stephen Kuusisto Reviewer: Steven E. Brown Publisher: W. W. Norton, 2006 Cloth, ISBN: 0-393-05892-1, 244 pages Cost: $23.95 USDItem type: Item , Book Review: Too Late to Die Young: Nearly True Tales from a Life(University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2007) Brown, Steven E.Author: Harriet McBryde Johnson Reviewer: Steven E. Brown Publisher: Picador, 2005 Paper, ISBN: 0-312-42571-6, 261 pages Cost: $14.00 USDItem type: Item , Book Review: Deaf Identities in the Making: Local Lives, Transnational Connections(University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2007) Brown, Steven E.Author: Jan-Kare Breivik Reviewer: Steven E. Brown Publisher: Gallaudet Press, 2005 Cloth, ISBN: 1-56368-276-1, 220 pages Cost: $49.95 USDItem type: Item , Book Review: A Reason for Living(University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2007) Tagayuna, ArlieAuthor: Laurent Grenier Reviewer: Arlie Taganuya Publisher: Nardis Press, 2004 ISBN: 1589611659, 212 pages Cost: $12.95 USDItem type: Item , Book Review: The Sibling Slam Book: What It’s Really Like to Have a Brother or Sister With Special Needs(University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2007) Su, ChristineEditor: Don Meyer. Foreword by David Gallagher. Reviewer: Christine Su Publisher: Woodbine House, Inc., Bethesda, MD, 2005 Cost: $15.95 USDItem type: Item , The Squeaky Wheel: An Unauthorized Autobiography(University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2007) Shaughnessy, BrianWhat if someone walked into surgery and awoke quadriplegic never having been warned of this risk? What if they not only survived but also endured the horrors of this disability with hope and humor? What if they returned to school, earned a Master’s degree in theater and then a law degree and got married? What if they wrote a funny and tearful book about it and created a new business model to market the story? Brian Shaughnessy did. This is an excerpt from his 2005 memoir.Item type: Item , Building Familial Spaces for Transition and Work: From the Fantastic to the Normal(University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2007) Peter, JoakimTransition for persons with disability is a process of negotiating difficult situations and barriers set by others and by systems. My strategies to overcome those barriers in my personal transitions through education systems and employment included the creations of familiar spaces in which group support plays a major role. This paper tracks my process through the familiar spaces and gives examples of encounters with barriers along my transition through hospital treatments to schools and then work.Item type: Item , Steaming, Compressed Air(University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2007) Gordon, Devera; Stuckey, ZoshaThis essay, composed over a span of eight months, was developed through a collaboration meant to redefine notions of writing that excludes people with disabilities. As post-colonial/collaborative composition theory suggests (Davies, 1992), the author and the writer of the narrative are two distinct people. While the author constructed the words verbally through a series of ongoing dialogues, the writer transcribed, edited, and re-ordered the text. Douglas Biklen’s book, Communication Unbound (1993), inspired us to explore these non-traditional ways of “writing” that, while grounded in conversation and collaboration, also disrupt models of efficiency and individualism.Item type: Item , Hands of Another(University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2007) Say, NathanI believe that our biggest battles in the Disabled Community are battles we face with our personal care attendants. This poem was experienced and written during an intense three week period in which I fired and then hired a new attendant. “Hands of Another” are his hands, and are symbolic of any personal care attendant.Item type: Item , Seeing Through the Veil: Auto-Ethnographic Reflections on Disabilities(University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2007) Chang, Heng-haoThis article is an auto-ethnography reflecting the interactions among society, my family and my brother who has Cerebral Palsy. The experiences of me and my family show the visible and invisible veils that segregate people with disabilities and their families from mainstream Taiwanese society.Item type: Item , Forum Introduction: Sharing Stories, In School and Out: An Autobiographical Forum(University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2007) Brown, Steven E.This is the introduction for the Forum: Sharing Stories, Autobiography and DisabilityItem type: Item , Encountering Physical Difference: Models of Experience and Dialogue(University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2007) Etter, WilliamThis paper utilizes Hans-Georg Gadamer’s classic philosophical study of the art of interpretation, Truth and Method (Wahrheit und Methode) (1960), to examine literary critic Leslie Fiedler’s 1996 collection of essays on bioethics and disability, Tyranny of the Normal. Because Fiedler’s primary analytical model centers around the experience of engaging an abjected Other and subsequently revising one’s self-conception based on this experience, it is useful to examine Fiedler’s arguments with respect to Gadamer’s theories of the hermeneutic circle, the historicity of experience, and the dialectical nature of understanding. Viewing these writings through a Gadamerian lens allows us to devise critical readings of the crucial social moment when the nondisabled “normal” individual and the person with a disability meet. Conversely, Gadamer’s text allows us to develop important criticisms of Fiedler’s work centered on the ahistorical and non-dialectical character of Fiedler’s interpretation of nondisabled individuals’ encounters with disability. Juxtaposing these two thinkers allows us to develop philosophical, psychological, and ethical warrants for disability rights activists’ assertions that the lives, medical treatments, media representations, and political destinies of people with disabilities must not be determined by the non-disabled alone.Item type: Item , Family Focused Learning: A Model for Learning from Children with Disabilities and Their Families via Technologies for Voice(University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2007) Skouge, James; Iding, Marie; Ratliffe, Katherine; Guinan, Martha M.In this paper, we describe a collaborative multidisciplinary model for faculty and students learning about culture and children with disabilities and their families in Pacific Island contexts. The model, Family Focused Learning, incorporates aspects of case-based and problem-based learning within the context of “consumer” and “professional” partnerships (Ratliffe, Stodden, & Robinson, 2000; Robinson, 1999). Children with disabilities and their families share the daily challenges and successes of their lives with graduate students and faculty at the University of Hawai‘i, via video letters, video mapping, cultural brokering and satellite videoconferencing. To illustrate this process, we present the story of “Tomasi,” a child with cerebral palsy in American Samoa, a US territory. Tomasi and his family are “given voice” and act as teachers for an interdisciplinary team of faculty and students from public health, social work, physical therapy, speech pathology, nursing, special education, nutrition, medicine, political science and law.