Intro
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
Editors and Contributors
Introduction
Part I Disability and Empirical Experiences
1 I Can Hear Her Breathing: Disabled Writers Writing Disability
References
2 Pilot Research Study: Utilizing the EMDR Integrative Group Treatment Protocol Online to Help Parents with the Stresses of Having a Special Needs Child
Overview Special Needs Children: Research of PTSD and Treatment
Parents of Special Needs Children
Status of Support
EMDR
Current Study: The Purposes of This Study
Method
Participants

Assessment Tools
EMDR Treatment Provision
Results
Discussion
Limitations and Questions for Further Study
Conclusion
References
3 Social Role Valorization Theory in India: An Idea with Consequences
What Is Social Role Valorization?
Historical Roots and Impact of SRV
Establishing the Foundation: SRV Teaching Across India
A Platform for SRV Leaders
SRV in Practice
Case Studies
Future Directions
Conclusion
References
4 Hold Your Breath: Promoting Health for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities
Introduction

Understanding the Phrase "Hold Your Breath"
Breath and Disability
Breath: Possibilities of Reducing the Impact
Breath: A Foundation of Healthy Body and Healthy Mind
BREATH: A Practical and Scientific Application
Prayer-An Activity for a Positive Impact
Chanting-The Joy That Brings a Positive Change
Breathing Exercises-A Process with an Impact on the Mind
The Double Breathing-The Foundation of Mental Health
The Impact of Double Breathing
Watching the Breath-A Science, Not a Belief
Scientific Observations
References

Part II Disability in Literature, Film and Theatre
5 The Mad Mother in the 1BHK-Hallowing and Harrowing Positions in Jerry Pinto's Em and the Big Hoom
Bibliography
6 (No) Shared Towers: Performing the Bipolar in Em and the Big Hoom
Life and Theatre: The World Is a Messy Stage
Madness and Culture: Who's Stage Is It Anyway?
Language and Mental Illness: No Escape from the Madd(en)ing Crowd
Conclusion
Bibliography
7 Disability, Sexuality, and Postcoloniality in Bengali Fiction
Introduction
Disability and Embodiment
Disability and Emasculation

Disability and Violence
Disability, Sexuality, and Subjectivity
Disability and Ethnicity
Corporeal and Spectral Bodies
Disability and Postcolonial Difference
References
8 Stigmatizing the Other: Treatment of Disability in Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis"
Introduction
The Discredited and the Discreditable Subject
Disability: A Performance of Discourse
Stigma: Actual Social Identity Versus Virtual Social Identity
Stigma and the Dilemma of Difference
Stigma and the Unstable Body
Exclusionary Cultural Paradigm and Isolation of the Stigmatized