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Disability Rights Commission (DRC) Research Report - Experiences of disabled students and their families: Phase 1 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
This report outlines research funded by the Disability Rights Commission (DRC) and undertaken between August 2004 and March 2005, by a team based at the University of Birmingham.
Lewis, Ann   +2 more
core   +7 more sources

Rights and responsibilities: The Disability Discrimination Act (1995) and adults with learning disabilities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The purpose of this research is to examine Part III (access to goods, facilities and services) of the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) 1995 in relation to people with learning disabilities.
Lerpiniere, Jennifer, Stalker, Kirsten
core   +4 more sources

Disability: getting it “right”. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This paper critically engages with Tom Shakespeare’s book Disability rights and wrongs. It concentrates on his attempt to demolish the social model of disability, as well as his sketch of an “alternative” approach to understanding “disability ...
Thomas, Carol
core   +5 more sources

Gerakan Hak-Hak Disabilitas di Bali: Analisis Fenomenologi dalam Penyebaran Norma Internasional Hak-Hak Disabilitas

open access: yesAndalas Journal of International Studies, 2023
The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) ratified by Indonesia in 2011, presents the perspective of the fulfillment of the rights of persons with disabilities.
I Made Anom Wiranata
doaj   +1 more source

From Disability Rights to the Rights of the Dying (and Back Again)

open access: yesLaws, 2017
This article argues for civil rights for dying people. The creation of such rights should be understood as complementary to, but distinct from, existing initiatives to provide dying people with social benefits.
Harold Braswell
doaj   +1 more source

Rethinking Citizenship, Self-Help, and Disability in Local Context: Solidaridad as disability citizenship in Nicaragua

open access: yesDisability Studies Quarterly, 2020
The concept of citizenship was instrumental to the formation of the disability movement in the West by recasting disability as the denial of equal citizenship of persons with impairments.
Stephen Meyers
doaj   +1 more source

Survey of parents and carers of disabled children and young people in Great Britain [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This is a research report to Disability Rights Commission (DRC), June 2006 on parents and carers of disabled children and young people in Great ...
Lewis, Ann   +4 more
core   +6 more sources

Neglected casualties: Mental health harms of armed conflict on persons with disabilities

open access: yesInternational Review of the Red Cross
In armed conflict and other situations of armed violence, people with disabilities, both children and adults, face serious and unique threats to their mental health and psychosocial well-being, including due to being targeted because of their disability,
Samer Muscati, Emina Ćerimović
doaj   +1 more source

The Story of My Life at Present: Video CVs as a Showcase for Persons with Intellectual Disability

open access: yesScandinavian Journal of Disability Research
This article presents an inclusive research project through which 17 video CVs of persons with intellectual disability were created. The main aim was to show how the video CV format can highlight the achievements of persons with intellectual disability ...
Anne-Marie Callus   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Listening for policy change: how the voices of disabled people shaped Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
: Voice has become an important yet ambivalent tool for the recognition of disability. The transformative potential of voice is dependent on a political commitment to listening to disabled people. To focus on listening redirects accountability for social
Thill, Cate, Cate Thill
core   +1 more source

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