Disability Research Today

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Social experiences of physical rehabilitation : the role of the family / Dikmen Bezmez and Sibel Yardimci -- Learning from Tojisha Kenkyu : mental health patients studying their difficulties with their peers / Kohji Ishihara -- The psycho-social impact of impairment : the case of motor neurone disease / Jo Ferrie and Nick Watson -- Beyond the ICF : Italian network strategies for job placement of persons with disabilities / Fabio Corbisiero -- Sites of oppression : dominant ideologies and women with disabilities in India / Nandini Ghosh -- How to understand violence against disabled people / Halvor Hanisch -- The invisibles : conceptualising the intersectional relationships between dyslexia, social exclusion and homelessness / Stephen Macdonald -- When power says no : bureaucratic governance and disability rights in Iceland / James Rice, Eirikur Smith and Kristin Björnsdóttir -- Mental capacity and the control of sexuality of people with intellectual disabilities in England and Wales / Lucy Series -- My sister wont let me : issues of control over one's own life as experienced by older women with intellectual disabilities / Iva Strnadová -- Social representations and inclusive practices for disabled students in italian higher education : a mixed-method analysis of multiple perspectives / Fabio Ferrucci and Michela Cortini -- The problem of the supercrip : representation and misrepresentation of disability / Jan Grue -- User, client or consumer? Construction of roles in video interpreting services / Hilde Haualand -- Reading other minds : ethical considerations on the representation of intellectual disability in fiction / Howard Sklar