RDS Volume 3, No. 3
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Item type: Item , Music Review: The Great Escape(University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2007) Brown, Steven E.Artist: Peter Leidy Reviewer: Steven E. Brown Cost: $12.00, USD Contact: peterleidy@yahoo.com 610 Miller Ave Madison, WI 53704 Website: http://www.peterleidy.comItem type: Item , Music Review: Odd Birds(University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2007) Dierks, KevinArtist: The Raventones (Randy Hamme & TR Kelley) Reviewer: Kevin Dierks Producer: TR Kelley/Darkwater Music, 2003 Title: Starstruck Enterprise Artist: The Raventones (Randy Hamme & TR Kelley) Producer: TR Kelley/Darkwater Music, 2006 Website: http://www.raventones.com/Item type: Item , Book Review: Elegy for a Disease: A Personal and Cultural History of Polio(University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2007) Brown, Steven E.Author: Anne Finger Reviewer: Steven E. Brown Publisher: St. Martin’s, 2006 Cloth, ISBN: 0-312-34757-X, 287 pages Cost: $25.95, USDItem type: Item , Book Review: Culture and Disability: Providing Culturally Competent Services(University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2007) Ratliffe, Katherine T.Editor: John H. Stone Reviewer: Katherine T. Ratliffe Publisher: Sage, 2005 Paper, ISBN: 9870-7619-3084-6, 272 pages Cost: $39.95, USDItem type: Item , Book Review: BlindSight: Come and See(University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2007) Brown, Steven E.Author: Jane L. Toleno Reviewer: Steven E. Brown Publisher: Singing River, 2006 Paper, ISBN: 0-9774831-4-2, 141 pages Cost: $14.95, USDItem type: Item , Book Review: Going to College: Expanding Opportunities for People with Disabilities(University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2007) Black, Rhonda S.Authors: Elizabeth Evans Getzel & Paul Wehman Reviewer: Rhonda S. Black Publisher: Brookes, 2005. Paper, ISBN: 1-55766-742-X, 336 pages Cost: $34.95Item type: Item , Book Review: Disability Rights and the American Social Safety Net(University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2007) Brockelman, Karin F.Author: Jennifer L. Erkulwater Reviewer: Karin F. Brockelman Publisher: Cornell University Press, 2006. Cloth, ISBN: 0-8014-4417-9, 272 pages Cost: $42.50, USDItem type: Item , Book Review: Developments in Direct Payments(University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2007) Dierks, KevinEditors: Janet Lee & Joanna Bornat Reviewer: Kevin Dierks Publishers: The Policy Press, 2006 Cloth, ISBN: 10 1 86134 654 9, 320 pages Paper, ISBN: 13 978 1 86134 654 4 Cost: Cloth: $85.00 USD, Paper: $39.29 USDItem type: Item , Impact of the South Asian Earthquake on Disabled People in the State of Jammu and Kashmir(University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2007) Singh, ParvinderOn the morning of October 8, 2005, a devastating earthquake, measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale, struck the Kashmir region with its epicentre near Muzzafarabad in Pakistan-administrated Kashmir. It took a while for both India and Pakistan to comprehend the scale of destruction that the quake had unleashed. In the two weeks following, the quake had left over 50,000 dead on the Pakistani side of the India-Pakistan border and claimed 1,300 lives on the Indian side. A second wave of deaths was expected with the onset of the region's notorious winter. Our thoughts immediately went to what may be happening to disabled people in the State of Jammu and Kashmir, though we knew the answer, based on our bitter experiences of seeing disabled people being neglected even in the so-called normal scenarios. Our National Disability Network partner in the mountainous and violence ravaged State confirmed our fears of the “general neglect” being compounded in the wake of this calamity. With information gained from the Asian Tsunami and impending legislation on Disaster Management on the floor of Indian Parliament, we decided it was imperative to draw up the difficulties that disabled people face during natural disasters to facilitate some churning of our national consciousness and possibly a policy intervention. What follows is an account of a fact-finding mission, its findings and recommendations, on the impact of the Kashmir quake. It is a story of persistent neglect, which turns grave when calamities strike.Item type: Item , Raising Disability Awareness and Self-Efficacy of One-Stop Workforce Center Staff Serving Job Seekers with Disabilities(University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2007) Johnson, Richard; Mellard, Daryl; Krieshok, ThomasUnder the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA) access to employment services for all job seekers, including those with disabilities, is available partly through a system of One-Stop Workforce Centers (Storen & Dixon, 1999; U.S. Department of Labor, 2001). However, early studies of WIA implementation found that One-Stops had limited outreach to and lacked accessibility for people with disabilities. This article describes a training program designed to raise disability awareness and self-efficacy of One-Stop staff serving people with disabilities, and to contribute to a unified culture of sensitivity toward, and an ability to work with, job seekers with disabilities.Item type: Item , Disablism Reflected in Law and Policy: The Social Construction and Perpetuation of Prejudice(University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2007) Horejes, Tommy; Lauderdale, PatThere are widespread historical and cultural analyses of the problems associated with racism, sexism, classism, and other types of prejudice; however, there is a paucity on disablism. As with other prejudices, an examination of the origins and perpetuation of disablism is controversial because it is cloaked in narrow legal and policy analyses of the historical and cultural documentation on the notion of disability. There has been little systematic research on disablism and typically it has been misrepresented as a health, economic, technical, or safety issue rather than prejudice. In the United States, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) was signed into law with the assumption that it would provide equal accommodations for disabled people. In this paper, we examine the institutions of education and the workplace to analyze how “equal accommodations” under such policies pose some serious and problematic political processes and consequences in shaping disability rights. Our analysis suggests that from an international perspective most disability policies remain rooted in a narrow medical model, despite evidence of attempts to construct politics of diversity and self definition.Item type: Item , Cripping School Curricula: 20 Ways to Re-Teach Disability(University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2007) Connor, David J.; Bejoian, LynneAs instructors of a graduate level course about using film to re-teach disability, we deliberately set out to “crip” typical school curricula from kindergarten through twelfth grade. Utilizing disability studies to open up alternative understandings and reconceptualizations of disability, we explored feature films and documentaries, juxtaposing them with commonplace texts and activities found in school curricula. In doing so, we sought to challenge any simplistic notions of disability and instead cultivate knowledge of a powerful, and largely misunderstood aspect of human experience. The article incorporates twenty suggestions to re-teach disability that arose from the course. These ideas provide educators and other individuals with a set of pedagogical tools and approaches to enrich, complicate, challenge, clarify, and above all, expand narrowly perceived and defined conceptions of disability found within the discourse of schooling.Item type: Item , Editorial: Introducing Associate Editor, Alex Lubet(University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2007) Conway, Megan A.This is a welcome editorial note to Alex Lubet.Item type: Item , Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal Volume 3 Issue 3(University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2007)