Diversity and Visual Impairment: The Individual's Experience of Race, Gender, Religion, and Ethnicity / Edition 1

by Madeline Milian

Overview

Discusses how cultural, social, and religious factors play an important role in the way an individual perceives and copes with a visual impairment, and how it can affect their self-esteem and social relationships.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780891283836
Publisher:	American Printing House for the Blind
Publication date:	01/01/2001
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	480
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)

Editorial Reviews

Visual impairment, we learn in these essays, does not create a person's lifestyle in the way that the experiences of ethnicity, religious and sexual orientation do. Many of the contributors write from their own experience as people with visual impairments, others write of those they interviewed. Individual topics include society's perceptions of disability and visual impairment and ways of altering negative stereotypes, the multiple dimensions that contribute to self-identity, the experience of different ethnic and religious groups, and practical information to help practitioners and university personnel become more culturally responsive. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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