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Aging with Disability and Disability with Aging
Journal of Disability Policy Studies, 2002People with early-onset disabilities are said to "age with disability," while those with mid- or late-life onsets are said to have "disability with aging." This is stereotypic since disability and aging are processes that interleave across the whole life course. We show this empirically by studying duration of disabilities by age in the U.S. community-
Lois M. Verbrugge, Li-shou Yang
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#SaytheWord: A Disability Culture Commentary on the Erasure of “Disability”
Rehabilitation Psychology, 2019Purpose: To inform the field of rehabilitation psychology about the sociocultural implications of the term “disability,” and explain the rationale behind the #SaytheWord movement, a social media call to embrace disability identity.
Erin E. Andrews +5 more
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The Law's Understanding of Intellectual Disability As a Disability [PDF]
Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2013 AbstractIntellectual disability (ID) is differently yet validly described by different professions. Legal professionals find it most useful to consider ID as a disability rather than a disorder. Because the law regulates the actions of individuals in a society and the actions of society on an individual, the law's concern in dealing with a person with ...
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2020
When presented with the term 'inhuman', I was drawn to consider how certain ways of being become associated with the inhuman, how this association is involved in the constitution of what is taken as properly human, and the deleterious effects for those who become associated with the inhuman. I'm going to address these topics in three stages.
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When presented with the term 'inhuman', I was drawn to consider how certain ways of being become associated with the inhuman, how this association is involved in the constitution of what is taken as properly human, and the deleterious effects for those who become associated with the inhuman. I'm going to address these topics in three stages.
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Disability awareness training for disability professionals
Disability and Rehabilitation, 2001This article describes work at the Virginia School of the Deaf and Blind in Hampton, Virginia, USA. Disability sensitivity training in businesses and government organizations has become a more important activity in the United States since the Americans with Disability Act (ADA) of 1992 was published.
Vernon A. Quarstein, Polly A. Peterson
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Don't Disable Teachers with Disabilities
British Journal of Special Education, 1990The Last Civil Rights Movement is well and truly with us. In a bigoted and prejudiced world children with disabilities and learning difficulties have rights and must learn to fight for them. A movement for disability equality led by disabled people ‐ including disabled teachers ‐ has a central place in our education system.
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Inclusion in sport: disability and participation
Sport and Disability, 2018For the last couple of decades UNESCO has aimed to achieve to a far extent the implementation of the guiding principle of inclusion at all levels in education systems worldwide.
Florian Kiuppis
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Disablement, Disability and the Nigerian Society
Disability, Handicap & Society, 1988ABSTRACT This paper seeks to examine the question of disability in developing countries, particularly Nigeria. Most of the diseases causing disabilities are preventable. Many of these are infections which could be prevented with medical care. The perception of handicapping conditions by most Nigerians it is argued, are greatly influenced by myth and ...
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Disability Culture or Disability Consciousness?
Journal of Disability Policy Studies, 1996“Disability culture” has become a taken-for-granted phenomenon in the disability community. Here I argue that this usage of the concept of culture does not fit anthropological definitions. Rather, I suggest that the concept of collective consciousness better describes what is occurring in the disability community than does the term disability culture.
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