Cumming School of Medicine
Community Rehabilitation & Disability Studies
Community Rehabilitation
LGBTQ+ Healthcare: Your Guide to Building an Inclusive Practice
The LGBTQ+ community is diverse. While L, G, B, T, and Q are usually tied together as a single homogeneous entity, each letter represents a wide range of people of different races, ethnicities, ages, socioeconomic statuses and identities (National LGBT Health Education Centre, 2019). Unfortunately, experiences of stigma and discrimination are a common theme that transcends across the entire LGBTQ+ community. While discrimination exists across the community, the manifestations of oppression and discrimination are not a singular occurrence or experience. One area in which there is a long history of discrimination and lack of awareness is within the health care sector.
Includes: Cases, glossary, and interactive exercises
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Disability Studies
Diversity and Difference in Communication (LibreTexts)
Interpersonal communication in health and social care services is by its nature diverse. As a consequence, achieving good or effective communication whether between service providers and service users, or among those working in a service means taking account of diversity, rather than assuming that every interaction will be the same. This text available through LibreTexts explores the ways in which difference and diversity impact on the nature of communication in health and social care services.
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Just Vibrations: The Purpose of Sounding Good
With recourse to experimental rhetoric, interdisciplinary discretion, and the playful wisdoms of childhood, Cheng contends that reparative attitudes toward music and musicology can serve as barometers of better worlds (Description from resource).
Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (Note: This is an open access text which restricts remixing and adapting).
Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN)
OAPEN includes many disability studies-related open access books in their database which, though they are not strictly textbooks, can be incorporated into your course readings. Some of them have CC-BY-4.0 or CC-BY-SA-4.0 copyright licenses that you can adopt, remix, transform, and build upon the original. Search the keyword “disability” and browse. Check the copyright status assigned to selected titles. Refer to the four different copyrights.
The following four titles are examples from the OAPEN collection, with portions of descriptions taken from their abstracts.
1. Ableism in Academic
This edited volume attempts to theorize experiences of Ableism in academia from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Licence: CC BY 4.0
2. Disability, Health, and Human Development
In low-income countries, there has been very little research on disability and its link to deprivations. Much of the research is recent, and research using traditional poverty indicators (e.g., consumption expenditures) paints an unclear picture on the association betw