The Paralympic games began as a way for World War II veterans to take part in elite-level competition. Thanks to various disability-sport organizations, men and women who have served in the military are still using sport as a form of rehabilitation and a way to transition into their new life.

This article shares the story of Julie Davies, who was just 29 when complications to a long-term health condition obliged her to retire from her job as a post woman. Davies has Marfan syndrome, an inherited connective tissue disorder, which affects the eyes, the heart and the skeleton. She had no definite ideas about what to do next. A series of…

This paper explores the intersection of Western art music and disability in relation to musical performance. Building on Joseph Straus's essay titled "Normalizing the abnormal: disability in music and music theory", this paper explores three main topics: the theoretical distinction in Disability Studies between impairment and disability; the…

As our understanding of learning focuses on the whole person rather than individual aspects of learning, so the process of learning is beginning to be studied from a wide variety of perspectives and disciplines. This handbook presents a comprehensive overview of the contemporary research into learning: it brings together a diverse range of…

This Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1933 includes the annual report from the Commissioner of Education. In the Commissioner's portion of this report, the following topics are covered: (1) Public School Administration; (2) Educational Legislation; (3) Statistics of Education; (4)…