During the late 1960s, Normalization and Social Role Valorization (SRV) enabled the widespread emergence of community residential options and then provided the philosophical climate within which educational integration, supported employment, and community participation were able to take firm root. This book is unique in tracing the evolution and impact of Normalization and SRV over the last quarter-century, with many of the chapter authors personally involved in a still-evolving international movement. Published in English.

This book focuses on a range of topics in design, such as universal design, design for all, digital inclusion, universal usability, and accessibility of technologies independently of people’s age, economic situation, education, geographic location, culture and language. It especially focuses on accessibility for people with auditory, cognitive, neurological, and visual impairments, ageing populations, and mobility for physical special needs. The book explores some of the overlaps between inclusive design and web accessibility to help managers, designers, developers, policy makers, and researchers optimize their efforts in these overlapping areas. Based on the AHFE 2016 International Conference on Design for Inclusion, held on July 27-31, 2016, in Walt Disney World®, Florida, USA, this book discusses new design technologies, highlighting various requirements of individuals within a community. Thanks to its multidisciplinary approach, the book represents a useful resource for readers with different kinds of backgrounds and provides them with a timely, practice-oriented guide to design for inclusion.

Comment surmonter le retard psychique ? Ce livre présente à un large public l'état de la question concernant les troubles du développement intellectuel, qui frappent 2 à 3% de notre population. Les causes de ces anomalies sont nombreuses : agressions environnementales prénatales par l'alcool, la drogue ou les médicaments, accidents cérébraux précoces, maladies génétiques, maltraitance précoce grave, etc. Les formes les plus fréquentes sont exposées, avec une insistance particulière sur celles dont les progrès de la recherche permettent aujourd'hui d'expliquer les mécanismes, tels l'alcoolisme fœtal, la phénylcétonurie, l'X fragile, le syndrome de Williams et la trisomie 21. À partir d'exemples concrets, on explore l'articulation entre mécanismes biologiques, en particulier génétiques, et les profils psychologiques spécifiques de déficience intellectuelle. À la synthèse des données scientifiques les plus récentes, les auteurs ajoutent leurs réflexions sur l'intégration sociale des personnes présentant des troubles du développement intellectuel. Elles abordent enfin les problèmes éthiques liés au diagnostic anténatal et les difficultés rencontrées par une famille en cas de détection d'une maladie grave du fœtus. Destiné aux professionnels mais accessible à tous, cet ouvrage de référence démontre d'un point de vue psychologique les causes de la déficience intellectuelle et propose des pistes de réflexion pour l'intégration sociale des personnes atteintes. À PROPOS DES AUTEURS Catherine Ayoun est Docteure en psychologie de l’Université Paris V René Descartes. Elle travaille au SESSAD GEIST 21 de Toulon. Michèle Carlier, Professeure de psychologie à l’Université Aix-Marseille 1, est membre du laboratoire associé au CNRS Psychologie cognitive, et membre de l’Institut Universitaire de France.

This two-volume set of LNCS 12188 and 12189 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction, UAHCI 2020, held as part of the 22nd International Conference, HCI International 2020, which took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, in July 2020. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The total of 1439 papers and 238 posters have been accepted for publication in the HCII 2020 proceedings from a total of 6326 submissions. UAHCI 2020 includes a total of 80 regular papers which are organized in topical sections named: Design for All Theory, Methods and Practice; User Interfaces and Interaction Techniques for Universal Access; Web Accessibility; Virtual and Augmented Reality for Universal Access; Robots in Universal Access; Technologies for Autism Spectrum Disorders; Technologies for Deaf Users; Universal Access to Learning and Education; Social Media, Digital Services, Inclusion and Innovation; Intelligent Assistive Environments.

Along with psychopathology, cognition has been one of the primary phenotypic focal points of the field of behavior genetics since its inception. Francis Galton’s 1874 examination of eminent families in Britain was among the earliest attempts to investigate whether cognitive achievements run in families. This volume presents current methodologies for understanding cognitive abilities that move beyond the outdated nature vs. nurture paradigm. Recent advances in both collection and statistical modeling of twin data, particularly longitudinal twin data, make this an especially advantageous moment to produce a work that presents a collection of the groundbreaking research on cognitive abilities across the lifespan. This volume presents an overview of the current state of quantitative and molecular genetic investigations into the many facets of cognitive performance and functioning across the lifespan.​

The act of life is a lived experience, common and unique, that ties each of us to every other lived experience. The fact of disability does not alter this fundamental truth. In this edition of Rethinking Disability: World Perspectives in Culture and Society, we are presented with a system of thinking that considers the values of disability, as a resource, as a creative source of culture that moves disability out of the realm of victimized people and insurmountable barriers, and provides opportunities to use the experience of disability to enter into networks that recognize strengths of differing abilities. The authors within will intrigue you, will move you, will charm you, but always will challenge your notion of sameness and difference as they confront the construct and (de)construct of disability and ableism. They present compelling arguments for viewing disABILITY through the multiple lenses of disability culture. They explore themes and issues that transcend past and origins, time and place, nuances of genetics, to experiences of present and becoming, and towards the future and beyond mere human, yet always intrinsically connected to being human. This book is intended for all audiences who dare to confront difference and sameness within themselves and in connection with others; to inspire researchers who wish to explore, and examine disability across social, cultural and economic barriers. It is an invitation to push away the barriers, bring ableism inside to a place where the prosthesis is no longer the elephant in the room.