Author: Evan P. Sullivan
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252047427
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
As Americans--both civilians and veterans--worked to determine the meanings of identity for blind veterans of World War I, they bound cultural constructs of blindness to all the emotions and contingencies of mobilizing and fighting the war, and healing from its traumas. Sighted Americans’ wartime rehabilitation culture centered blind soldiers and veterans in a mix of inspirational stories. Veterans worked to become productive members of society even as ableism confined their unique life experiences to a collection of cultural tropes that suggested they were either downcast wrecks of their former selves or were morally superior and relatively flawless as they overcame their disabilities and triumphantly journeyed toward successful citizenship. Sullivan investigates the rich lives of blind soldiers and veterans and their families to reveal how they confronted barriers, gained an education, earned a living, and managed their self-image while continually exposed to the public’s scrutiny of their success and failures.
Constructing Disability after the Great War
Author: Evan P. Sullivan
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252047427
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
As Americans--both civilians and veterans--worked to determine the meanings of identity for blind veterans of World War I, they bound cultural constructs of blindness to all the emotions and contingencies of mobilizing and fighting the war, and healing from its traumas. Sighted Americans’ wartime rehabilitation culture centered blind soldiers and veterans in a mix of inspirational stories. Veterans worked to become productive members of society even as ableism confined their unique life experiences to a collection of cultural tropes that suggested they were either downcast wrecks of their former selves or were morally superior and relatively flawless as they overcame their disabilities and triumphantly journeyed toward successful citizenship. Sullivan investigates the rich lives of blind soldiers and veterans and their families to reveal how they confronted barriers, gained an education, earned a living, and managed their self-image while continually exposed to the public’s scrutiny of their success and failures.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252047427
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
As Americans--both civilians and veterans--worked to determine the meanings of identity for blind veterans of World War I, they bound cultural constructs of blindness to all the emotions and contingencies of mobilizing and fighting the war, and healing from its traumas. Sighted Americans’ wartime rehabilitation culture centered blind soldiers and veterans in a mix of inspirational stories. Veterans worked to become productive members of society even as ableism confined their unique life experiences to a collection of cultural tropes that suggested they were either downcast wrecks of their former selves or were morally superior and relatively flawless as they overcame their disabilities and triumphantly journeyed toward successful citizenship. Sullivan investigates the rich lives of blind soldiers and veterans and their families to reveal how they confronted barriers, gained an education, earned a living, and managed their self-image while continually exposed to the public’s scrutiny of their success and failures.
Techniques of Hearing
Author: Michael Schillmeier
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000736377
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Hearing, health, and technologies are entangled in multi-faceted ways. This edited volume addresses this complex relationship by arguing that modern hearing was and is increasingly linked to and mediated by technological innovations. By providing a set of original interdisciplinary investigations that shed new light on the history, theory, and practices of hearing techniques, it is able to explore the heterogeneous entanglements of sound, hearing practices, technologies, and health issues. As the first book to bring together historians, scholars from media studies, social sciences, cultural studies, acoustics, and neuroscientists, the volume discusses modern technologies and their decisive impact on how "normal" hearing, enhanced and smart hearing, as well as hearing impairment have been configured. It brings both new insights into the histories of hearing technologies as well as allowing us to better understand how enabling hearing technologies have currently been unfolding an increasingly hybrid ecology engaging smart hearing devices and offering stress-free hearing and acoustic well-being in novel auditory environments. The volume will be of interest to all scholars and students of disability studies, sound studies, sociology of health and illness, medical history, health and society, as well as those interested in the practices and techniques of self-monitored and smart hearing.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000736377
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Hearing, health, and technologies are entangled in multi-faceted ways. This edited volume addresses this complex relationship by arguing that modern hearing was and is increasingly linked to and mediated by technological innovations. By providing a set of original interdisciplinary investigations that shed new light on the history, theory, and practices of hearing techniques, it is able to explore the heterogeneous entanglements of sound, hearing practices, technologies, and health issues. As the first book to bring together historians, scholars from media studies, social sciences, cultural studies, acoustics, and neuroscientists, the volume discusses modern technologies and their decisive impact on how "normal" hearing, enhanced and smart hearing, as well as hearing impairment have been configured. It brings both new insights into the histories of hearing technologies as well as allowing us to better understand how enabling hearing technologies have currently been unfolding an increasingly hybrid ecology engaging smart hearing devices and offering stress-free hearing and acoustic well-being in novel auditory environments. The volume will be of interest to all scholars and students of disability studies, sound studies, sociology of health and illness, medical history, health and society, as well as those interested in the practices and techniques of self-monitored and smart hearing.
Special Reference Library of Books Relating to the Blind
Author: Perkins School for the Blind. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blind
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blind
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Subject Directory of Special Libraries and Information Centers
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Information services
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Information services
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
... Special Reference Library of Books Relating to the Blind
Author: Perkins School for the Blind. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blind
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blind
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Directory of Special Libraries and Information Centers
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Information services
Languages : en
Pages : 1248
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Information services
Languages : en
Pages : 1248
Book Description
Annual Report of Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind
Author: Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blind
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blind
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Annual Report of Perkins School for the Blind
Author: Perkins School for the Blind
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blind
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blind
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Special Libraries Directory
Author: Special Libraries Association
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Special libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Special libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Teaching Social Skills to Students with Visual Impairments
Author: Sharon Sacks
Publisher: American Foundation for the Blind
ISBN: 9780891288824
Category : Blind children
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
"This book expands upon the knowledge base and provides a compendium of intervention strategies to support and enhance the acquisition of social skills and children and youths with visual impairments ... Part 1 ... addresses social skills from a first-person perspective. The second part ... examines how theory seeks to explain social development and influences assessment and practice ... Part 3, ties personal perspectives and theory to actual practice. Finally, Part 4 ... offers numerous examples and models for teaching social skills to students who are blind or visually impaired, including those with additional disabling conditions."--Introduction.
Publisher: American Foundation for the Blind
ISBN: 9780891288824
Category : Blind children
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
"This book expands upon the knowledge base and provides a compendium of intervention strategies to support and enhance the acquisition of social skills and children and youths with visual impairments ... Part 1 ... addresses social skills from a first-person perspective. The second part ... examines how theory seeks to explain social development and influences assessment and practice ... Part 3, ties personal perspectives and theory to actual practice. Finally, Part 4 ... offers numerous examples and models for teaching social skills to students who are blind or visually impaired, including those with additional disabling conditions."--Introduction.