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Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI)
Visually Impaired
Visually Impaired in general refers to the loss of vision that cannot be corrected glasses or contacts. Many people think that blindness is being unable to see at all but some blind individuals may still have some sight and yet still need alternative methods to function in daily activities. Some terms for better understanding have been defined below.
- Low Vision | A loss of visual acuity while retaining some vision. This cannot be corrected with corrective lenses, medicine or surgery.
- Partially Sighted | Usually used in educational context to describe a visual impairment that requires special education services.
- Legally Blind | People that have less than 20/200 vision in the better eye or a limited field that is 20 degrees or less at its widest point.
- Light Perception and Light Projection | These terms describe a person who may have severely reduced vision but is still able to perceive the difference between light or dark.
- Total Blindness | This is the individual who has complete lack of light perception and form perception.
Resources Related to Neurodiversity & Dis/ability
Accessibility Denied. Understanding Inaccessibility and Everyday Resistance to Inclusion for Persons with Disabilities by
This book explores the societal resistance to accessibility for persons with disabilities, and tries to set an example of how to study exclusion in a time when numerous policies promise inclusion. With 12 chapters organised in three parts, the book takes a comprehensive approach to accessibility, covering transport and communication, knowledge and education, law and organisation. Topics within a wide cross-disciplinary field are covered, including disability studies, social work, sociology, ethnology, social anthropology, and history. The main example is Sweden, with its implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities within the context of the Nordic welfare state. By identifying and discussing persistent social and cultural conditions as well as recurring situations and interactions that nurture resistance to advancing accessibility, despite various strong laws promoting it, the book's conclusions are widely transferable. It argues for the value of alternating between methods, theoretical perspectives, and datasets to explore how new arenas, resources and technologies cause new accessibility concerns -- and possibilities -- for persons living with impairments. We need to be able to follow actors closely to uncover how they feel, act, and argue, but also to connect to wider discursive and institutional patterns and systems. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of disability studies, social work, sociology, ethnology, social anthropology, political science, and organisation studies.
ISBN: 9781000512700Publication Date: 2021-11-09
Eye Movement: Theory, Interpretation, and Disorders by
Eye movements are a key factor in human vision. During steady state fixation where the visual attention is voluntarily centered on a fixation estimulous, the eye shows involuntary small movements that exhibit an erratic trajectory. This new book describes fixational eye movements, their mathematical models, and the factors that affect fixation. Also explored, herein, is Congential Nystagmus, which is one of the diseases that affect binocular vision, reducing the visual quality of a subject, saccadic eye movements, eye movement patterns in hemispatial neglect and eye-gaze input systems used by people with severe disabilities.
ISBN: 9781617287428Publication Date: 2010-10-01
Nothing about Us Without Us by
James Charlton has produced a ringing indictment of disability oppression, which, he says, is rooted in degradation, dependency, and powerlessness and is experienced in some form by five hundred million persons throughout the world who have physical, sensory, cognitive, or developmental disabilities. Nothing About Us Without Us is the first book in the literature on disability to provide a theoretical overview of disability oppression that shows its similarities to, and differences from, racism, sexism, and colonialism. Charlton's analysis is illuminated by interviews he conducted over a ten-year period with disability rights activists throughout the Third World, Europe, and the United States. Charlton finds an antidote for dependency and powerlessness in the resistance to disability oppression that is emerging worldwide. His interviews contain striking stories of self-reliance and empowerment evoking the new consciousness of disability rights activists. As a latecomer among the world's liberation movements, the disability rights movement will gain visibility and momentum from Charlton's elucidation of its history and its political philosophy of self-determination, which is captured in the title of his book. Nothing About Us Without Us expresses the conviction of people with disabilities that they know what is best for them. Charlton's combination of personal involvement and theoretical awareness assures greater understanding of the disability rights movement.
ISBN: 9780520925441Publication Date: 1998-03-27
The Oxford Handbook of Autism and Co-Occurring Psychiatric Conditions by
Co-occurring psychiatric conditions are extremely common among people who have autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The Oxford Handbook of Autism and Co-Occurring Psychiatric Conditions presents a compilation of the latest research in this area, summarized by internationally renowned experts. Eachchapter presents an overview of the problem or disorder including information on prevalence in ASD and in the general public and a synthesis of the research on etiology, diagnostic best practices, and evidence-based intervention approaches. Case studies bring these concepts to life, and each chapterconcludes with suggestions for future research directions in order to further develop our scientific and clinical understanding of the particular comorbidity. Given the fact that comorbidity is often a chronic and pervasive concern, this Handbook takes a lifespan approach, with each chapter touchingon developmental aspects of the targeted problem, from early childhood through adulthood. The concluding section of the Handbook is comprised of content on clinical considerations and research approaches, including chapters on medications commonly used to treat co-occurring conditions, strategiesfor managing crisis situations in this clinical population, and community partnerships within an implementation science framework.
ISBN: 9780190910761Publication Date: 2020
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- American rehabilitation Official publication of the Rehabilitation Services Administration.
- Assistive technology International journal publishing research in the multi-disciplinary field of technology for people with disabilities.
- Disability and health journal Scientific, scholarly, and multidisciplinary journal for reporting original contributions that advance knowledge in disability and health.
- Mental and physical disability law reporter Summaries of reported legal developments covering disability discrimination law and civil and criminal mental disability law.
- Sexuality and disability Addresses the psychological and medical aspects of sexuality in relation to rehabilitation.
- Technology and disability Communicates knowledge about the field of assistive technology devices and services, within the context of the lives of end users - persons with disabilities and their family members.
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