Article -’Stepstone: An Interactive Floor Application for Hearing Impaired Children with a Cochlear Implant’ by Ole Sejer Iversen, Karen Johanne Kortbek, Kaspar Rosengreen Nielsen, Louise Aagaard.
From the abstract: “This paper describes a novel interactive floor application suited for hearing impaired children with a (CI).cochlear implant”. Keywords: Cochlear Implant Children, interactive floor, collaborative learning, participatory design. Link to PDF.
October 4, 2008
Interactive floor game for kids with CIs
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October 4, 2008 at 9:59 am
Evaluating the potential of the
Nintendo Wii to support disabled
students in education
Elaine Pearson and Chris Bailey
Accessibility Research Centre, School of Computing
University of Teesside http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/singapore07/procs/pearson-poster.pdf
Improving spatial awareness in physically disabled children using virtual environments
Wilson, P.N.; Foreman, N.; Stanton, D.
Simulation in Medicine (Ref. No. 1998/256), IEE Colloquium on
Volume , Issue , 2 Dec 1998 Page(s):6/1 – 6/5http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/login.jsp?url=/iel4/6026/16087/00744698.pdf?temp=x
Disabled Gamers’ Comprise 20% of Casual-Videogame Audience
http://www.marketingcharts.com/interactive/disabled-gamers-comprise-20-of-casual-videogame-audience-4920/
Play for Play’s Sake: Cooperative Games As a Strategy for Integration. McGill, Judith
October 7, 2008 at 8:30 am
Abberley, P. (1987) ‘The Concept of Oppression and the Development of a Social Theory of Disability’ Disability, Handicap and Society 2 (1) pp 5-19 Reprinted in ‘Disability Studies: Past Present and Future’ edited by Len Barton and Mike Oliver (1997); Leeds: The Disability Press, pp. 160 – 178
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/archiveuk/Abberley/chapter10.pdf
Davis, L. J. (1995) Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness and the Body London: Verso.
Gartner, A. and Joe, T. (eds) (1987) Images of the Disabled: Disabling Images, New York, Praeger.
Marks, D. (1996) ‘Able-Bodied Dilemmas in Teaching Disability Studies’, in Representing the Other, S.Wilkinson and C.Kitzinger (eds) London: Sage. pp 64-67
http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=U9xDI5j6C-cC&oi=fnd&pg=PA64&dq=Marks,+D.+(1996)+‘Able-Bodied+Dilemmas+in+Teaching+Disability+Studies’&ots=-EbPgumjEc&sig=9IBjeUFRt9JWBqvqYCuj3iUpsro
Oliver, M. (1990) The Politics of Disablement: A Sociological Approach, London: Macmillan.
Roulsone, A. (1998) Enabling Technology. Milton Keynes: OU Press
Shakespeare, T. and Watson, N. (2001) ‘The Social Model of Disability: An Outdated Ideology?’ In Research in Social Science and Disability Vol 2. Exploring Theories and Expanding Methodologies: S. N. Barnartt, B.M. Altman (eds) Emerald Group Publishing pp 9-28
http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=BmzwiX8rVbkC&oi=fnd&pg=PA9&dq=%22Shakespeare%22+%221.+THE+SOCIAL+MODEL+OF+DISABILITY:+AN+OUTDATED+IDEOLOGY%3F%22+&ots=iHJ1Grh2-z&sig=Nvuer1XLGh54y0LJjKZSi5qfAmA#PPA9,M1
Skelton, T., Valentine, G. (2003) ‘It feels like being Deaf is normal’: an exploration into the complexities of defining D/deafness and young D/deaf people’s identities. Canadian Geographer/Le Geographe canadien. Vol 47, issue 4 pp 451 – 466
Young, I.M (1990) Justice and the Politics of Difference, Princeton. Princeton University Press
October 7, 2008 at 8:48 am
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/archiveuk/Oliver/in%20soc%20dis.pdf
The Individual and Social Models of Disability, M. Oliver
Fantastic resource, the disability archive at Leeds – here is the link: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/archiveuk/
October 28, 2008 at 9:44 am
Fame and Disability
Christopher Reeve, Super Crips, and Infamous Celebrity
Gerard Goggin and Christopher Newell
Volume 7 Issue 5 Nov. 2004
http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0411/02-goggin.php
November 6, 2008 at 7:37 pm
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