Disability Rights Content Topic Results

Words simultaneously reflect and reinforce our attitudes and perceptions. In this article, the author argues against using the descriptor “special needs” for people with disabilities, discussing how it can promote negative attitudes and segregation.

This page from the Rehabilitation Research & Training Center on Independent Living Management provides a list of national and international milestones highlighting people, events, and legislation affecting the disability rights movement.

This article offers a brief history of the disability rights movement and discusses the need for a counter-hegemonic politics of disability liberation.

This virtual exhibit from the Smithsonian National Museum of American History explores key milestones in the disability rights movement.

This safety plan is designed to help adults with physical disabilities who have been or may be abused by an intimate partner, spouse, adult child, or other family member, personal assistant or caregiver.

This short paper describes three kinds of pseudo-allies to people with disabilities, providing insights into what true allyship looks like.

This chapter provides information about domestic violence in immigrant communities, including the power and control dynamics and the barriers faced by immigrant women in accessing services for domestic violence.

This document highlights the prevalence of violence against women with disabilities, examines abuse interventions for women with disabilities, and offers a critique of studies on abuse and disability. Includes recommendations for research and practice.

This checklist is designed to help organizations identify accessibility problems and solutions in existing facilities in order to meet obligations under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The goal of the survey process is to plan how to make an existing facility more usable for people with disabilities.

The author provides a case study of her daughter’s sexual abuse as a child and subsequent experiences as a “chronically mentally ill” client in the mental health system. Information from 17 years of mental health records and anecdotal accounts are used to illustrate the effects of the abuse, her attempts to reach out for help, and the system’s failure to respond.

This brief article describes what the term "invisible disability" means and why it is important to understand invisible disabilities.

This one-pager offers tips for engaging in respectful interactions with individuals with disabilities.