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Disability and Technology

An Interdisciplinary and International Approach

By: Alan Roulstone

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Disability and Technology

An Interdisciplinary and International Approach

By: Alan Roulstone

This book brings together formally disparate literatures and debates on disability and technology in a way that captures the complex interplay between the two. Drawing on disability studies, technology studies and clinical studies, the book argues that interdisciplinary insights together provide a more nuanced and less stylized picture of the benefits and barriers in disability and technology. Drawing on a breadth of empirical studies from across the globe, a picture emerges of the complex and multi-directional interplay of technology and disability. Technology is neither inherently enabling or disabling but fundamentally shaped by the social dynamics that shape their design, use and impact.

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1137450428

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Understanding Disability Policy

By: Alan Roulstone,Simon Prideaux

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Understanding Disability Policy

By: Alan Roulstone,Simon Prideaux

We live at a paradoxical time for many disabled people: some achieve new freedoms while others face cuts in services and attempts to restrict who counts as disabled. Locating disability policy within broader social policy contexts, Alan Roulstone and Simon Prideaux critically explore the roles of social support, poverty, socio-economic status, community safety, spatial change, and other issues in shaping disabled people's opportunities. They also consider implications for future policy developments, including the impact of changing government and academic understandings of disability.

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Policy Press

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1847427383

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Disability, Policy and Professional Practice

By: Jennifer Harris,Alan Roulstone

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Disability, Policy and Professional Practice

By: Jennifer Harris,Alan Roulstone

This text translates both adult and children's disability legislation and policy guidance into positive, creative, enabling practice methods for professionals in social care, health, employment and independent living.

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SAGE Publications

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1849201706

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9781849201704

Thriving and Surviving at Work

Disabled People's Employment Strategies

By: Alan Roulstone

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Thriving and Surviving at Work

Disabled People's Employment Strategies

By: Alan Roulstone

This report breaks new ground in asking: how did those disabled people who are already in work get and keep paid work? Drawing on the experiences of disabled people themselves, it looks at the difficulties disabled people experience,.

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Disability and Technology

An Interdisciplinary and International Approach

By: Alan Roulstone

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Invisible in the Storm

The Role of Mathematics in Understanding Weather

By: Ian Roulstone,John Norbury

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Invisible in the Storm

The Role of Mathematics in Understanding Weather

By: Ian Roulstone,John Norbury

An accessible book that examines the mathematics of weather prediction Invisible in the Storm is the first book to recount the history, personalities, and ideas behind one of the greatest scientific successes of modern times—the use of mathematics in weather prediction. Although humans have tried to forecast weather for millennia, mathematical principles were used in meteorology only after the turn of the twentieth century. From the first proposal for using mathematics to predict weather, to the supercomputers that now process meteorological information gathered from satellites and weather stations, Ian Roulstone and John Norbury narrate the groundbreaking evolution of modern forecasting. The authors begin with Vilhelm Bjerknes, a Norwegian physicist and meteorologist who in 1904 came up with a method now known as numerical weather prediction. Although his proposed calculations could not be implemented without computers, his early attempts, along with those of Lewis Fry Richardson, marked a turning point in atmospheric science. Roulstone and Norbury describe the discovery of chaos theory's butterfly effect, in which tiny variations in initial conditions produce large variations in the long-term behavior of a system—dashing the hopes of perfect predictability for weather patterns. They explore how weather forecasters today formulate their ideas through state-of-the-art mathematics, taking into account limitations to predictability. Millions of variables—known, unknown, and approximate—as well as billions of calculations, are involved in every forecast, producing informative and fascinating modern computer simulations of the Earth system. Accessible and timely, Invisible in the Storm explains the crucial role of mathematics in understanding the ever-changing weather. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.

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Princeton University Press

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1400846226

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Thriving and Surviving at Work

Disabled People's Employment Strategies

By: Alan Roulstone

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Understanding Disability Policy

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Disability, Policy and Professional Practice

By: Jennifer Harris,Alan Roulstone

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Working futures?

Disabled people, policy and social inclusion

By: Roulstone, Alan,Barnes, Colin

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Disabled people, policy and social inclusion

By: Roulstone, Alan,Barnes, Colin

Working futures? looks at the current effectiveness and future scope for enabling policy in the field of disability and employment. By addressing the current strengths and weaknesses of disability and employment policy, the book asks Is the dichotomy of 'work for those who can and support for those who cannot' appropriate to the lives of disabled people? Does current and recent policy reduce or reinforce barriers to paid employment? What lessons from other welfare regimes can we draw on to further disabled people's working futures? The book is original in bringing together a wide range of policy insights to bear on the question of disabled people's working futures. It includes analyses of recent policy initiatives as diverse as the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, Draft Disability Bill, the benefits system, New Deal for Disabled People, job retention policy, comparative disability policy, the role of the voluntary sector and 'new policies for a new workplace'. Contributions from academics, NGOs, the OECD and the disabled peoples' movement bring multiple theoretical, professional and user perspectives to the debates at the heart of the book.

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1847421431

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