Browsing by Subject "Disability Studies"
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19 Stories of Social Inclusion Ireland: Stories of Belonging, Contributing and Connecting
(National Disability Authority, 2019)Irish disability policy, in line with international treaties such as the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), aims to support people with intellectual disabilities to live included ... -
Extreme Bodies in the Fiction of Wilkie Collins
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2024)This thesis places Wilkie Collins's work in the context of nineteenth-century debates on extreme bodily differences, ranging from physical disability to exceptional ability. Recurrent in Collins's fiction are extreme bodies ... -
Higher Education Opportunities for Students with Intellectual Disabilities in the Republic of Ireland - A National Response
(Inclusive National Higher Education Forum, 2019)Given the context that people with intellectual disabilities face significant barriers and limited postsecondary opportunities, a number of initiatives in Ireland and internationally have been established with the aim of ... -
Missing Links: The Somatechnics of Decolonisation
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A new-materialist reading of disability, senescence and the life-course
(2023)The purpose of this paper is to provide a new-materialist theoretical commentary on disability, senescence and the life-course. Critical literature review with deductive thematic analysis was undertaken using an electronic ... -
Sexual surveillance and control in a community based intellectual disability service
(2016)Within contemporary policy documents regarding intellectual disability and sexuality we often find a progress narrative that contrasts a dark past, when the sexuality of disabled people was suppressed, with an enlightened ... -
Tomorrow's disability officer - A cornerstone on the universal design campus.
(2019)‘there are no strangers here – only friends you haven’t met yet” - W B Yeats This paper will explore the evolution of one of the key roles on campus for students with a disability in the context of Universal Design for ...