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What Do Women with Learning Disabilities Say about Their Experiences of Domestic Abuse within the Context of Their Intimate Partner Relationships?
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Walter-Brice, Alison; Cox, Rachel; Priest, Helena; Thompson, Fiona – Disability & Society, 2012
In 2001 the UK Government launched its strategy "Valuing People". The strategy, underpinned by the Human Rights Act 1998 (Ministry of Justice 1998), the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (Home Office 1995) and social inclusion claimed to outline ways for services to work, to meet the needs of individuals with learning disabilities . In…
Descriptors: Females, Disability Discrimination, Mental Retardation, Family Violence
Silence on the Stomping Grounds: A Case Study of Public Communication about Disability in the 1990s
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Lellis, Julie C. – Disability & Society, 2011
This case study describes the manner in which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--the first state-funded institution of higher education in the United States--publicly addressed the disability civil rights movement just before and after the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990. An analysis of archived documents,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Civil Rights, Disabilities, News Reporting
Writing Histories of Disability in India: Strategies of Inclusion
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Buckingham, Jane – Disability & Society, 2011
Existing historical understandings of disability are dominated by European and American experience and tend to assume Judeo-Christian ideas of stigma and exclusion are universal norms. This paper emphasises the unique experience of disability in India and the role of poverty, gender, caste and community in compounding the marginalisation felt by…
Descriptors: World History, Historical Interpretation, Social Class, Disabilities
Resistance, Transformation and the Politics of Hope: Imagining a Way Forward for the Disabled People's Movement
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Peters, Susan; Gabel, Susan; Symeonidou, Simoni – Disability & Society, 2009
The social model of disability has been a useful tool to shift the focus of disability as individual deficit to disability as a social construction in an oppressive society. However, a theory of political action is needed to create transformative change. This article develops resistance as a unifying political construct and tool for action. Four…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Foreign Countries, Social Attitudes, Social Bias
Aversive Disablism: Subtle Prejudice toward Disabled People
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Deal, Mark – Disability & Society, 2007
Blatant forms of prejudice towards disabled people appear to be disappearing in the UK. However, subtle forms of prejudice remain and may be highly damaging to the achievement of the vision of disabled people being "respected and included as equal members of society". In order to assist placing subtle forms of prejudice within a…
Descriptors: Attitudes toward Disabilities, Foreign Countries, Social Bias, Civil Rights
From "Cage Beds" to Inclusion: The Long Road for Individuals with Intellectual Disability in the Czech Republic
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Vann, Barbara H.; Siska, Jan – Disability & Society, 2006
In the Czech Republic, individuals with intellectual disabilities continue to be institutionalized in large, remote, state-run institutions and as a result are isolated from community interaction. Some practices associated with these institutions are coming to be seen as human rights violations. Although non-governmental organizations (NGOs) offer…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Nongovernmental Organizations, Foreign Countries, Inclusion