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Time for tough conversations: Ableism in the life journey of young adults with visual impairment

open access: yesIndustrial Psychiatry Journal
Background: Visual impairment (VI) profoundly impacts many aspects of life and is well documented in various cross-sectional studies. Young people’s views on growing up with VI are largely unexplored in the Indian context.
Joice Steffi Yovan   +2 more
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Historicizing Ableism

open access: yesModern American History
Abstract Recognizing disability as a socially created category, a lived experience with real-world consequences, and part of a critical analytical framework, disability historians have illuminated core aspects of modern American history. With some frequency, however, both scholars and community members conflate disability with ableism.
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Sliding to Reverse Ableism: An Ethnographic Exploration of (Dis)ability in Sitting Volleyball

open access: yesSocieties, 2019
This paper illuminates the potential of diversely embodied sporting cultures to challenge ableism, the ideology of ability. Ableism constructs the able body as conditional to a life worth living, thus devaluing all those perceived as ‘dis’ ...
Carla Filomena Silva, P. David Howe
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Recalibrating disability towards the term subaltern. The social work of neoliberal-academic-ableism in Danish higher education

open access: yesSocial Work and Society, 2023
This paper explores ways in which disabled academics emerge through the social work of what we call neoliberal-academic-ableism in Danish higher education when disability is recalibrated towards the term subaltern.
Tine Fristrup   +1 more
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Eco-ableism and access circularity in natural building

open access: yesFrontiers of Architectural Research
The climate crisis disproportionately impacts disabled people. Yet climate-related advocacy, planning, and policymaking often neglect to thoughtfully include disabled people.
Grace Schleck, Lola Ben-Alon
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Dismantling ableism in health professions education: imperative in psychosocial management of pain

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health
Pain and chronic pain are prevalent and costly. Integrative models of pain management including the biopsychosocial (BPS) model of pain are central to contemporary public health efforts to address pain, however, uptake of the BPS model of pain in patient
Krista F. Van Der Laan   +1 more
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Citizenship Education through an Ability Expectation and “Ableism” Lens: The Challenge of Science and Technology and Disabled People

open access: yesEducation Sciences, 2012
Citizenship education has been debated for some time and has faced various challenges over time. This paper introduces the lens of “ableism” and ability expectations to the citizenship education discourse. The author contends that the cultural dynamic of
Gregor Wolbring
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Ableism in mental healthcare settings: A qualitative study among U.S. adults with disabilities

open access: yesSSM: Qualitative Research in Health
People with disabilities (PWD) face elevated mental health concerns and are more likely to utilize mental health services compared to their nondisabled counterparts, yet they also report higher unmet mental health service needs due to myriad attitudinal ...
Katie Wang   +10 more
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Exploring the employment experiences of young adults with multiple minoritized identities: A qualitative study focusing on race and non-apparent disabilities.

open access: yesPLoS ONE
Youth with disabilities often encounter many challenges in securing employment. Although the common barriers that youth face are well documented, little is known about the experiences of youth who have multiple minoritized identities in finding and ...
Sally Lindsay   +2 more
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Részvétel és igazságosság – A posztszocializmus, a piacgazdaság és az épségizmus hatása a fogyatékossággal élő emberek társadalmi részvételére

open access: yesFogyatékosság és Társadalom
Contributing to disability studies in the post-socialist context (Mladenov, 2015, 2016), this paper explores the social injustices generated by the ableist environment.
Sára Csillag   +3 more
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