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Blindness, rehabilitation and identity: a critical investigation of discourses of rehabilitation in South African non-profit organisations for visually impaired persons

Author: Botha, Michelle Date: 2021 This study explores the role of rehabilitation in shaping the subjectivity of blind persons. It considers what engaging with rehabilitation services might communicate to people with visual impairments about their status, their value and their ... Read more
Disability and social change: a South African agenda

Author: Watermeyer, Brian ; Swartz, Leslie ; Lorenzo, Theresa ; Schneider, Marguerite ; Priestley, Mark Date: 2011 This powerful volume represents the broadest engagement with disability issues in South Africa yet. It covers a wide range of perspectives of disability, from theoretical perspectives on disability, to disability in education, to disability's ... Read more c b n d
Psychoanalysis and disability : an exploration of the utility of psychoanalytic methods and analyses in the interrogation of social responses to impairment

Author: Watermeyer, Brian Date: 2000 The utility of a critical psychoanalytic approach in interrogating societal responses to disability is discussed, making use of experiential accounts of visually impaired university students gathersd via group analytic methods. The re-integration ... Read more
Teaching Children with Visual Impairments

Author: Watermeyer, Brian Date: 2020 In the education of children with visual impairment, there is at present a global movement away from segregated special schooling, and towards inclusive neighbourhood schools. Inclusion provides an opportunity for everyone, teachers as well ... Read more c b
TEDI 1 Week 1 - Social Model of Disability and Disability Rights

Author: Watermeyer, Brian Date: Jun 2019 This week, we consider what disability inclusion means by exploring different models of disability as well as disability rights and policies. Drawing from the history of special and inclusive education we look at how mainstream schools can ... Read more c b
TEDI 1 Week 4 - Expanded Core Curriculum for Blind Education

Author: Watermeyer, Brian Date: 2019 This week discusses how to make the curriculum accessible for all - particularly focusing on those with severe to profound disabilities. This includes understanding some of the causes of specific impairments (hearing, visual and intellectual) ... Read more c b
Voices through my hands: An auto-ethnographic study of the lived experiences of a South African child of Deaf adults

Author: Harrison, Jane Date: 2018 There is a dearth of literature about the lived experiences of hearing children of Deaf adults (CODAs) within the South African context that this study attempts to address. Most African publications examining issues of Deafness focus on the ... Read more