Current Search: People with visual disabilities (x)
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Identifying barriers to accessibility for individuals with visual impairments in transition and employment.
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Creator
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Agonis, Julianne, Scotte, Diane, Hicks, Dawn, Graduate College
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Date Issued
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2011-04-08
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3164446
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Subject Headings
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Web-based instruction, Computer-assisted instruction, People with visual disabilities
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Format
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Document (PDF)
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Title
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Double trouble: A cross-cultural, comparative study of blind women.
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Creator
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Irving, Mary., Florida Atlantic University, Harris, Michael S., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
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Abstract/Description
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In highly industrialized as well as in developing countries, blind women constitute one of the poorest segments of the population. This thesis explores societies' attitudes towards blind women who are doubly disadvantaged, because of their disability and their gender. In many developing countries this dual discrimination affects women's access to prevention, treatment, education, rehabilitation, and employment. Disabled women are deprived of women's traditional roles of wife, home maker, and...
Show moreIn highly industrialized as well as in developing countries, blind women constitute one of the poorest segments of the population. This thesis explores societies' attitudes towards blind women who are doubly disadvantaged, because of their disability and their gender. In many developing countries this dual discrimination affects women's access to prevention, treatment, education, rehabilitation, and employment. Disabled women are deprived of women's traditional roles of wife, home maker, and mother. This thesis also explores the cross-cultural network of local, national, and regional self-help committees blind women have begun to assemble in response to the worldwide interest in the rights of women and the disabled. The women who are active in these organizations recognize that in order to improve the status of blind women they will have to find ways to overcome the prejudices against the disabled in mainstream groups, and become an integral component of broader movements.
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Date Issued
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1994
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15091
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Subject Headings
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Blind women, Women with disabilities--Attitudes, People with visual disabilities, Women--Social conditions, Women--Developing countries--Social conditions
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Document (PDF)
