Disability - A Reference Handbook

✍ Scribed by Rembis, Michael

• Publisher: Abc-Clio, LLC, Gn
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 353
• Series: Contemporary World Issues
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Preface
1 Background and History
Introduction
Institutionalization
Eugenics
Charity
Disability Rights Movement
Early History
World War II to the Americans with Disabilities Act
Post–Americans with Disabilities Act
References
2 Problems, Controversies, and Solutions
Introduction
Access
Health Care
Public Transportation
Housing
Public Education
Employment Opportunities
The New Eugenics
References
3 Perspectives
Introduction
The Contested Evolution of the Americans with Disabilities Act
“We Can Speak Out the Way We Want”: Self-Advocacy, Americans Disabled for Attendant Programs Today, and the Sociopolitical Legacies of the Disability Rights Movement
The Neurodiversity Movement
Restricted Reproductive and Parental Rights: Challenging What Makes a Person “Fit” to Parent
Starlight Studio and Art Gallery
The Contradictory Status of Disabled Veterans
Violence against People with Disabilities: Still Missing from the Conversation
Deaf Children and Cochlear Implants
Gender, Madness, and Commitment
Minority Students with Disabilities and the School to Prison Pipeline
4 Profiles
ADAPT
American Federation of the Physically Handicapped
Clifford Beers (March 30, 1876–July 9, 1943)
Justin W. Dart, Jr. (August 29, 1930–June 22, 2002)
Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund
Judy Heumann (1947–)
Jerry’s Orphans
Helen Keller (1880–1968)
National Association for Retarded Children
National Association of the Deaf
National Black Disability Coalition
National Center for College Students with Disabilities and Disability Rights, Education, Activism, and Mentoring
National Council on Disability
National Down Syndrome Society
National Federation of the Blind
Elizabeth Packard (1816–1897)
Paralympics
Ed Roberts (1939–1995)
Society for Disability Studies (and Disability Studies)
U.S. Quad Rugby Association
“Blind” Tom Wiggins (1849–1908)
World Institute on Disability
References
5 Data and Documents
Introduction
Data
Table 5.1. Types of Disability
Figure 5.1. Percentage of U.S. Population Identified as Disabled
Figure 5.2. Median Monthly Income of Adults with Disabilities, 203
Figure 5.3. Disability Demographics
Figure 5.4. Employment of Adults with Disabilities
Documents
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act (1973)
Education for All Handicapped Children Act (1975)
Americans with Disabilities Act (1990)
Olmstead v. L. C. (1999)
Paul K. Longmore, “Why I Burned My Book” (1989; Published 2003)
ADA Amendments Act (2008)
Teaching the Black Disabled Experience (2015)
6 Resources
Introduction
Academic Peer-Reviewed Journals
Reference Works
Edited Books
Monographs
Internet Resources
7 Chronology
Glossary
Index
About the Author