RDS Volume 3, No. 3

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    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.com
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    Music Review: Odd Birds
    (University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2007) Dierks, Kevin
    Artist: 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/
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    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, USD
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    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, USD
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    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, USD
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    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: $34.95
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    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, USD
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    Book Review: Developments in Direct Payments
    (University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2007) Dierks, Kevin
    Editors: 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 USD
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    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, Parvinder
    On 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.
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    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, Thomas
    Under 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.