Disabilities: insights from across fields and around the world

v. 1. THE EXPERIENCE: DEFINITIONS, CAUSES, AND CONSEQUENCES: How rich and fulfilled my life has been: A personal perspective of mobility "Impairment" / Ela Yazzie-King

Understandings of the disability concept: A complex and diverse concept / Marianne Hedlund

Disability harms: Exploring internalized ableism / Fiona Kumari Campbell

But stroke happens to older people doesn't it? The experiences of "Young" people following stroke / Tara Catalano and Elizabeth Kendall

"Come sit with me; let's yarn together for a little while": Resilience factors in facing cardiovascular and emotional disabilities / Lauraine Barlow

Disability in Arab societies / Numan Gharaibeh

We can cry later: A story of surviving cancer / Paige Stager

Disability as a human perception: Personal and professional reactions to American Indian families' narratives about their children's disabilities / R. Cruz Begay, Betty G. Brown, and Roger G. Bounds

Traumatic brain injury and disability as a consequence of assault: Focus on intimate partner violence / Rosalie J. Ackerman and Martha E. Banks

"I thought I was going to live forever" / Reva Mariah S. Gover

Coping following traumatic brain injury: Lessons from autobiographical accounts / Elizabeth Kendall, Melissa Kendall, and Heidi Muenchberger

Functional and psychosocial aspects of late-onset hearing loss / Charlene M. Kampfe

Disability in Islam: Insights into theology, law, history, and practice / Isra Bhatty, Asad Ali Moten, Mobin Tawakkul, and Mona Amer

Living with a learning disability and other marginalized statuses: A multilevel analysis / Katherine E. McDonald, Christopher B. Keys, and Fabricio E. Balcazar

Persons and nonpersons: Intellectual disability, personhood, and social capital among the Mixe of Southern Mexico / George S. Gotto IV

Sharing my strengths and winning against obesity / Michelle Pieper

The discursive construction and invalidation of disability / Stephen Lee Hodgkins and Sid Baility

Shubharthis in India: Destigmatizing schizophrenia, a move toward inclusion / Anuradha Sovani

Excerpts from "Meditations of the heart on the workings (or not) of the hand" / Bernadette Blount Salley

A Taonga is a Taonga in any language / Huhana Hickey.

v. 2. THE CONTEXT: ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL, AND CULTURAL CONSIDERATIONS: Creating mental health disability through inadequate disaster response: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina / Paula A. Madrid, Roy Grant, and Rachel Rosen

Autonomy and disability: A quest for quality of life / Bedarius Bell Jr., Shelley R. Henthorne, Doris Adams Hill, Jane W. Turnbull-Humphries, and Stephanie T. Zito

Children who care for their parents: The impact of parental disability on young lives / Kenneth I. Pakenham

The digital town square: Information and communication technology as an opportunity and a barrier to social relations for disabled youth / Sylvia Soderstrom

Understanding the experience of parenting a child with autism / Samantha Bursnall, Eilis Kennedy, Rob Senior, and Jo Violet

Through my rose-colored glasses: When disability strikes a health professional / Melissa Kendall

Australian indigenous health and the SIPES model of well-being: The legacy of Lauraine Barlow / Leda Barnett and Dianne Barnett

"Surely someone can support me": A caregiver's perspective / Tara Catalano and Debra Domalewski

Navigating societal norms: The psychological implications of living in the United States with disability / Jennifer Gibson

Disabilities and employment in the United States, Kenya, and the Philippines: A race and class perspective / Elaine A. Burke and Patricia Denise Lopez

Youth with intellectual disabilities in foster care: Examining accompanying risks and service outcomes / Crystal L. Cederna, Melissa Palguta, Jacqueline Remondet Wall, and Steven M. Koch

Mental disorder, disability, and society / David Pilgrim and Anne Rogers

Parental perspectives on disability: The story of Sam, Anna, and Marcus / Heather Douglas and Sally Borbasi

Bullying of children with developmental disabilities: An ecological approach to program development / Rocky Liesman

Mosaic reflections of American Muslims on disability: Challenges and solutions / Mobin Tawakkul, Isra Bhatty, and Mohammed Yousuf

Voices of people with disabilities (PWD) in Vietnam / David N. Morrisey

Substance use disorders and disability: An examination of co-occurring disorders in Nigeria / Stephanie L. Lusk and Teresia M. Paul

Chasing your dreams / Connie Susa

Afterword: Reclaiming globalization for disability

further insights.

v. 3. RESPONSES: PRACTICE, LEGAL, AND POLITICAL FRAMEWORKS: Evolution of disability policies and practices in the United States: Implications for global implementation of person-centered planning / Carol J. Blessing, Thomas P. Golden, and Susanne M. Bruyere

Global networking, social justice, and implications for chronic illness and disability / Elizabeth Kendall and Catherine A. Marshall

Disability in the State of Qatar / Asma Al Attiyah and Marcellina Mian

Attitudes toward inclusion in primary education in Greece / Maria Agorastou, Efrosini Kalyva, Efthalia Kaderoglou, and Filippos Stefanidis

Vocational rehabilitation at a cancer agency in Canada: A pioneer and model service when cancer results in disability / Maureen Parkinson

Mental health care in Turkey: Present status and future directions / Rebecca Spirito-Dalgin, Tuncay Ergene, Joseph Marrone, and Kerim Munir

What's all this about a "World" Wide Web? The need and mandate for Web accessibility / Joe E. Wheaton and Patrizia Bertini

Disability management: A global response to disability in the workplace / Nicholas Buys and Christine Randall

When systems hurt rather than heal: Outcomes following psychological injury at work / Elizabeth Kendall and Heidi Muenchberger

Equal treatment in working life for people with disabilities: Sweden and Norway perspectives / Marianne Hedlund, Bodil J. Landstad, and Asa Svensson

Wellness rhetoric: Implications for policy and practice in Australian childhood health and disability services / Lauren J. Breen and Sherry Saggers

Health care, disability, and living with chronic illness: Rehabilitation and beyond / Marie A. DiCowden

Acting for advocacy: An innovative team training approach to self-advocacy / Deborah Zuver, Robyn Dorton, Wilson Finks, and Kira Fisher

International accessibility: Reflections on the value of disability rights approach to providing supports and services / Cheryl L. Crocker

Advocacy in the 21st century: An integrated model for self-advocates, parents, and professionals / Steven M. Koch, Katy Beggs, Joy Bailey, and Jacqueline Remondet Wall

A journey of self through the lives of others: Historical removal, displacement, and sanctioned injustice / Rae Kelly

States of exceptionality: Provisional disability, its mitigation, and citizenship / Fiona Kumari Campbell

Disability in Kenya: A situational analysis / Edward O. Manyibe, George I. Mamboleo, George C. T. Mugoya, and Charlene M. Kampfe

Changing the system: "Strong indigenous women

we are the voice" / Robyn Burnett

Afterword: Reclaiming globalization for disability

further insights.