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ItemDisability Studies Dissertation Abstracts(University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2010)The information for this section of RDS is provided by Jonathon Erlen of the University of Pittsburgh. A full list of disability-related dissertation abstracts may be found at http://www.hsls.pitt.edu/guides/histmed/dissertations/
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ItemBook Review: Disability and Diversity: A sociological approach(University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2010)Author: Mark Sherry Reviewer: Marjorie McGee Publisher: NY: Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2008 Paper: ISBN: 978-1-60456-914-8 Cost: $89.10 from the publisher, 105 pages
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ItemBook Review: Doctors of Deception: What They Don’t Want You to Know about Shock Treatment(University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2010)Author: Linda Andre Reviewer: Laura K. Corlew Publisher: New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers, 2009 Paper: ISBN: 978-0-8135-4441-0 Cost: $26.95, 336 pages
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ItemThe Uses and Implications of the Term “Retarded” on YouTube(University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2010)In this article, we provide a historical glimpse into the changing use of terminology for people with intellectual disabilities. In order to determine how the word retarded is currently used in popular culture in the United States, we analyzed one hundred randomly selected YouTube videos with the word retarded in the title. Five themes emerged: (a) the traditional use of the term retarded, (b) the use of retarded in humorous context, (c) the use of retarded to insult or criticize, (d) the term retarded as a substitute for other words, and (e) the slang use of retarded in a hip hop context. The coexistence of these multiple definitions is an unprecedented situation in the history of disability terminology. While advocates in the US are pushing for abandonment of the “R” word, establishing rules about language use is clearly a simplistic solution to a complex problem.
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ItemFrom Dialogue to Bakhtin’s Dialogue: A Critical Review in Learning Disability Research(University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2010)The purpose of this study was to understand the nature of dialogue used in peer-refereed research articles related to learning disabilities (LD) and instruction. We attempted to evaluate the quality of dialogue in these articles through a lens that Bakhtin and various disability studies scholars offer. In addition, we suggest that disability scholars’ concepts and uses of dialogue provided a way for us to frame our Bakhtinian critique in the broader context of theorizing the social model of disability. From a critical review of these articles, we identified various limitations in ways that dialogue is used to conduct the studies and also in the ways that dialogue is represented by the authors. The studies often minimized the voices of the students labeled as LD. We offer many suggestions for how to present their voices in research and how to improve teaching through conceptualizing learning in a different, more sensitive way as informed by Bakhtin’s notion of dialogue.
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ItemVive la Révolution(University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2010)Through the presentation of qualitative data, this verse reflects the author’s sincere effort to reconcile the divide between “town and gown,” all the while exploring the experiences and subsequent perceptions of activists within Mad Pride. In so doing, it creatively illustrates the broad dynamics and challenges that face those on the receiving end of the psychiatric system today.
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ItemSocial Entrepreneurs and NGOs for People with Mental Disabilities in Post-Communist Europe: Implications for International Policy(University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2010)Disability activists and disability non-governmental organization (NGO) leaders in post-communist Central Europe have been among the most instrumental force for promoting disability rights and community-based living initiatives in their formerly communist countries. During an on-going period of massive economic and political transition, these disability activists and NGO leaders managed to take advantage of emerging civil society freedoms and have established innovative models for the promotion of disability issues throughout the post-communist region. Of particular note are those initiatives that have addressed the needs of people with mental disabilities. The use of the term “mental disabilities” in this article refers to a diverse group of people who share the common experience of institutionalization due to perceived differences in emotion, perception, and/or cognition and who have faced longstanding barriers to community living in communist and post-communist Europe. The following article describes the national and historical contexts for people with mental disabilities in the Visegrad Four countries of Central Europe: Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland. It then highlights a number of innovative disability NGOs that are promoting human rights and community living for people with mental disabilities in each country. Implications for international collaboration with disability NGOs, and the importance of international disability policies, are discussed.
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ItemEditorial: Legacies: Burning Books A-Foot in Heaven?(University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2010)In the early 1990s, on a panel at a Society for Disability Studies annual meeting and trying to model in some way the AIDS quilt, I shared a few names and a couple of stories of friends who had passed on. Afterwards, people shared some of their own names and stories...
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ItemReview of Disability Studies: An International Journal Volume 6 Issue 4(University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2010)