Conclusion
The disability rights movement is truly a movement that is hidden in plain sight. We all benefit from reforms brought by the movement on a daily basis, yet many people are not aware of the events that led to these reforms or the determined activists who fought for them. There is a perception that [...]
Archive for December, 2006
Disability Rights Paper Pt 4
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Disability Rights Paper Pt 3
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The Americans with Disabilities Act
In the early 1980s Justin Dart began work on legislation that led to the ADA. At this time, many disability rights groups were pessimistic about the likelihood of passing comprehensive disability legislation, feared backlash and were concerned about enforcing protections that already existed under Section 504, and maintaining funding for disability [...]
Disability Rights Paper Pt 2
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Activism in the Deaf Community
The deaf community, while part of the greater disability movement, is in some ways separate and even in conflict from it. Deaf people often see themselves as members of a linguistic minority rather than having a disability. Some of them even prefer to develop a separate community in which [...]
Holiday Greetings
Posted in Disability/Autism on December 24, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
To all my readers (….all 5 of them or whatever) have a Happy Winter Solstice, a Happy Hannukah, Merry Christmas, Kwanzaa and any other holidays I may be forgetting.
I’ve posted the paper I wrote on the disability rights for my sociology class on the page labeled obviously “Disability Right” since it’s longer it takes up [...]
