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Disability: Psychiatric Disabilities

2013
The psychosocial catastrophe that accompanies serious mental illness negatively impacts individual performance and success in all key life domains. A person-in-environment perspective, and with a traditional and inherent interest in consumer and community strengths, is well positioned to address psychiatric disabilities.
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Disability identity – disability pride [PDF]

Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2012
This paper discusses a way of thinking about disability which has emerged out of the UK Disabled People's Movement over the last three decades in opposition to the preceding medical model of disabi...
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Aging with Disability and Disability with Aging

Journal of Disability Policy Studies, 2002
People 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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Disability and the Inhuman

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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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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Disability awareness training for disability professionals

Disability and Rehabilitation, 2001
This 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, 1990
The 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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Disablement, Disability and the Nigerian Society

Disability, Handicap & Society, 1988
ABSTRACT 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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Persons With Disabilities

2017
The title of this chapter is “Persons With Disabilities.” Although it is a basic title, for some people I have already taken a stand. To use the term disabled person instead of person with a disability is thought by many to be politically incorrect because disabled person suggests that the only thing worth mentioning about the person is the disability.
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