Description: Disability as Diversity: Developing Cultural Competence is the first book to comprehensively address disability as diversity and provide a guide for developing cultural competence. The text goes beyond disability models, and opens a discourse on concepts such as disability identity development and culture, and culturally appropriate language, assessment, and intervention. Readers will gain an appreciation of the role of cultural competence on health disparities, health promotion, and disease prevention for disability across the lifespan. This volume is designed to equip professionals with heightened awareness, knowledge, and skills to enhance the provision of culturally competent care to disabled people.
Review Quotes: "Well-written volume... Highly recommended. All readers." -- P. A. Murphy, University of Toledo
"This expansive and clearly presented coverage of disability from the perspective of diversity is a gift to all researchers and clinicians. Written by a consumer-professional with extensive experience in disability advocacy, clinical practice, and academia, it offers a compendium of new insights that could redirect research so it aligns with the real needs of disabled people. -Margaret A. Nosek, PhD, Executive Director, Center for Research on Women with Disabilities; Professor, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Baylor College of Medicine"This important and timely work provides a comprehensive analysis and synthesis of current knowledge about disability as a dimension of diversity. It should be required reading for rehabilitation and health professionals toward culturally competent services for persons with disabilities. Andrews should be commended for this astounding accomplishment. -Fong Chan, PhD, Norman L. and Barbara M. Berven Professor of Rehabilitation Psychology (Emeritus), Department of Rehabilitation Psychology and Special Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison"Andrews provides an illuminating foundation for disability cultural competence by reviewing key historical, theoretical, and empirical disability studies knowledge in impressive topical breadth and critical depth. This is what disabled people want professionals to know in order to change the dynamics of disempowerment often experienced in service settings. " -Carol J. Gill, PhD, Professor Emerita, Department of Disability & Human Development, Interdisciplinary PhD Program in Disability Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago