This is a book written to celebrate the humanity of people, and to share experiences of what brilliant care and support can look like for families with learning disabled or autistic children and adults.Sara Ryan steers clear of jargon and 'doublespeak' to conjure authentic experiences of families. Speaking with families and professionals, she conveys the love, laughter and joy which binds families and the harsh realities many face; of separation from loved ones, substandard care an...

This empirically grounded book presents a critical, interdisciplinary perspective on social and cultural issues related to the health and wellbeing of people with learning disabilities. Through an exploration of healthcare, love and intimacy, pregnancy and childbirth, housing, employment and food the book highlights the enduringly impoverished lives and premature deaths people labelled with learning disabilities experience globally and suggests that such structural violence amounts to soci...

A mother's memoir which tells the story of her son's premature death while in NHS care, and her subsequent campaign for justice and for the rights of people with learning disabilities.On July 4th 2013, Connor Sparrowhawk, also known as Laughing Boy or LB, was found dead in a specialist NHS unit. Connor, who had autism and epilepsy, had a seizure while in the bath and no member of staff was on hand to stop him from drowning. An entirely preventable death.Sar...

After moving to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, poet Sara Ryan found herself immersed in the isolated spaces of the North: the cold places that never thawed, the bleak expanses of snow. These poems have teeth, bones, and blood—they clack and bruise and make loud sounds. They interrogate self-preservation, familial history, extinction, taxidermy, and animal and female bodies. In between these lines, in warm places where blood collects, animals stay hidden and hunted, a girl looks lonelines...

This handbook provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview of Critical Autism Studies and explores the different kinds of knowledges and their articulations, similarities, and differences across cultural contexts and key tensions within this subdiscipline.Critical Autism Studies is a developing area occupying an exciting space of development within learning and teaching in higher education. It has a strong trajectory within the autistic academic and advocate community in resist...

An ex-army pilot on his next adventure. A dog trainer establishing her mark. Can they rely on each other when a rescue mission turns deadly?Bjørn Rebel has achieved his lifelong dreams: a helicopter of his own and a business showing-off his beloved Alaska.When the local search and rescue team asks for air support, he jumps at the chance to volunteer. Not only will his experience flying evac missions for an elite division of the army give se...

Bidding to winWhen Tessa Noble takes the stage at a charity auction after a sexy makeover her best friend Ryan Bateman must place the winning bid. It’s definitely not because he’s jealous. Their weekend getaway is a ploy for positive press… or so he tells himself. But soon things take an unexpected turn from platonic to passionate, catapulting the couple from friends to lovers…•Tony Milan can't believe the stunning vision in red who's placed the highe...

When you play hide and go seek in the shadows, you never know what will find you…A cartoon character's crazy antics take a sinister turn when viewers become trapped in his sadistic show. Matrimony turns deadly as a husband and wife compete in a grisly game of confession. And a young child unleashes the beast within after he discovers his neighbor is not what he seems…Scare Street is proud to present thirteen tales of supernatural horror in one volu...

Every page is torn from your worst nightmares…An aging woman sacrifices more than she bargained for in her quest for eternal youth. A group of kids explore a decrepit slaughterhouse only to find that one of them won't be coming home. And when a deep freeze strikes a small town, one man discovers something sinister lurking beneath the ice and snow…Scare Street is proud to present fourteen tales of supernatural horror in one volume. A new entry into ...

The shadows grow darker, and the nightmares even more relentless...A cartoon character’s twisted antics trap viewers in a horrifying show they can never leave. A decrepit slaughterhouse becomes the stage for unspeakable terror, and a trail of missing children in the frozen wilderness leads to a predator more monstrous than anything imagined.Scare Street proudly gives you Terror in the Shadows Volumes 13–15, a spine-chilling collection of...

In the realm of unrequited love and tragic destiny, Sara Teasdale's "A Song to Eleonora Duse in Francesca da Rimini" weaves a haunting tapestry of longing and despair. Inspired by the legendary Italian actress Eleonora Duse's portrayal of Francesca da Rimini, Teasdale's poem captures the essence of a woman consumed by a forbidden passion that leads to her untimely demise. Through lyrical verses that echo with both beauty and sorrow, Teasdale explores the complexities of love, loss, and the...

When you play hide and go seek in the shadows, you never know what will find you....A cartoon character’s crazy antics take a sinister turn when viewers become trapped in his sadistic show. Matrimony turns deadly as a husband and wife compete in a grisly game of confession. And a young child unleashes the beast within after he discovers his neighbor is not what he seems....Scare Street is proud to present 13 tales of supernatural horror in one vo...