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Why Disability Studies Scholars Must Challenge Transmisogyny and Transphobia [PDF]

, 2018
We argue the need for coalition between trans and disability studies and activism, and that Disability Studies gives us the tools for this task. Our argument rests upon six facets.
Liddiard, Kirsty, Slater, Jen
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Life Quality and Participation of Disabled Children and Young People: Design and Methods of a Transformative Study

International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 2021
The LIFE-DCY research project has two aims. First, to evaluate disabled children’s quality of life (QoL) as reported by themselves and their parents, and second, to locate commonalities, differences, and conflicting issues in the processes that may ...
Snæfrídur Thóra Egilson, Linda B. Ólafsdóttir, Anna Sigrún Ingimarsdóttir, Freyja Haraldsdóttir, Ásta Jóhannsdóttir, Barbara E. Gibson, Stefan Hardonk   +6 more
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Who is disabled? On whether the functional definition of disability targets the same individuals as the subjective definition

Frontiers in Sustainability, 2023
With the increased attention to disability as a vulnerability criterion in the Sustainable Development Goals, international organizations and NGOs within the international development sector have started to pay explicit attention to persons with ...
Judith Baart, Willem Elbers, Alice Schippers   +2 more
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Moral wrongs, disadvantages, and disability: a critique of critical disability studies [PDF]

, 2014
Critical disability studies (CDS) has emerged as an approach to the study of disability over the last decade or so and has sought to present a challenge to the predominantly materialist line found in the more conventional disability studies approaches ...
Campbell F. K., Carel H., Corker M., Davis L., Eshleman A., Foucault M., Fraser N., Goodley D., Marmot M., McCruer R., Meekosha H., Morris J., Nick Watson, Nussbaum M., Rawls J., Shakespeare T., Shakespeare T., Shildrick M., Simo Vehmas, Stone D., Thomas C., Thomas C., Walby S., Wilkinson R., Wolff J.   +24 more
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Parent Training and Therapy in Children with Autism

Pediatric Reports, 2021
With the introduction of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-5th ed. (DSM-5) autism spectrum disorders (ASD) fall into the category of neurodevelopmental disorders.
Alessandro Frolli, Antonia Bosco, Francesca Di Carmine, Antonella Cavallaro, Agnese Lombardi, Luana Sergi, Giulio Corrivetti, Maria Carla Ricci   +7 more
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Theorising disability: a practical and representative ontology of learning disability [PDF]

, 2019
This article contributes to the ongoing development of the theorisation of learning disability, focusing on the value of the ontological turn. We argue that while social theory has influenced understandings of disability within academia, particularly ...
Cluley, V., Fyson, R., Pilnick, A.
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Disability, Access to Food and the UN CRPD: Navigating Discourses of Human Rights in the Netherlands

Social Inclusion, 2018
In 2016, the Netherlands ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD), one of the last developed nations to do so.
Mitzi Waltz, Tanja Mol, Elinor Gittins, Alice Schippers   +3 more
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Infusing disability equity within rehabilitation education and practice: A qualitative study of lived experiences of ableism, allyship, and healthcare partnership

Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences, 2022
BackgroundAddressing issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) has become central in implementing inclusive and socially responsible rehabilitation education and clinical practice. Yet, the constructs of disability and d/Deaf identity and culture,
Heather A. Feldner, Heather A. Feldner, Heather A. Feldner, Heather D. Evans, Heather D. Evans, Katherine Chamblin, Lesley M. Ellis, Mark K. Harniss, Mark K. Harniss, Danbi Lee, Danbi Lee, Joanne Woiak   +11 more
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Disability: getting it “right”. [PDF]

, 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
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Merleau-Ponty, World-Creating Blindness, and the Phenomenology of Non-Normate Bodies [PDF]

, 2017
An increasing number of scholars at the intersection of feminist philosophy and critical disability studies have turned to Merleau-Ponty to develop phenomenologies of disability or of what, following Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, I call "non-normate ...
Reynolds, Joel Michael
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