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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"social construction of disability"”.
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Enabling the Great War: Ex-Servicemen, the Mixed Economy of Welfare and the Social Construction of Disability, 1899-1930
Upwards of 750,000 British ex-servicemen returned home permanently disabled from the First World War. Dealing with the enormity of war time disability put great strain on medical and financial resources and forced the British government to reassess, and radically alter its responsibilities towards …
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Life scraps/a patchwork quilt: Vignettes from the lives of Brenda and Jim
This qualitative inquiry explores the process of the social construction of disability and the meanings assigned to the disability by a mother and/with a son with cerebral palsy. Using the interpretative biographical methodology, vignettes were written in a journal by the mother. Applying the …
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The Role of Disability in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
The social construction of disability posits that media play an important role in the construction of disability. Few studies have systematically examined the role of disability in film or television. Engaging in a multiple perspective analysis, this dissertation examined the role of disability in …
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An Investigation of Alternative Language Services (ALS) Received by English Language Learners (ELLs) Identified with a Disability
The identification of and provision of ALS to ELLs identified with a disability was compared to that of their ELL peers without an identified disability. In addition, I conducted a review of the types of ALS provided. I approached this study from the perspective of the social construction of …
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The Adoption of Disabled Children
… in knowledge, the negativity associated with the social construction of disability has been seen as a cause of disabled children’s disadvantage (Cousins 2009). Synthesising a Critical Realist framework with Grounded Theory methods; to examine both the efforts of local authorities to place a …