Disability and Technology

This edited collection brings together keynote articles from the journal Disability & Society to provide a comprehensive and though-provoking exploration of the place of technology in disabled people’s lives, documenting and analysing the growing impact of technology on disability and society over recent decades. The authors explore theoretical, empirical and moral dilemmas that arise with the changing relationship between technological change and the lives, aspirations and possibilities of disabled people. The volume is organised into three parts which consider early foundational work connecting disability and technology; key empirical studies related to the optimum use of technologies for independence and inclusion; and new moral and social dynamics thrown up by technological developments for disabled people’s lives.

Michele Moore is Professor of Inclusive Education at Northumbria University, UK, and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Disability & Society.

Alan Roulstone is Professor of Disability Studies at the University of Leeds, UK.

Alison Sheldon is a Teaching Fellow in Disability Studies at the University of Leeds, UK.

Jennifer Harris is Professor Emeritus in Social Work at the University of Dundee, UK.