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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Disability Rights Movement"”.
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Movement of the Organized Blind in India: From Passive Recipients of Services to Active Advocates of Their Rights
<p>In recent years, the subject of the newborn disability rights movement in India has been attracting the attention of researchers, but there has been very little effort to document the movement of blind people in India for their rights, which preceded the broader disability rights movement. I …
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A study using black physically disabled women leaders' experiences to examine how a developmental state can deal with economic disparities faced by black young physically disabled women
… such as, a developmental state, gender, and disability and the economy. Using narrative descriptive qualitative methods, the researcher used convenience sampling of four physically disabled women who are leaders in the disability rights movement. The sample took into cognisance provincial …
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Ableism in Education: A Case Study of a Student with Multiple Disabilities
… difficult odds. It relies on an overview of the disability movement, related legislation from the 1960s to present, and compares the theoretical models of disability. This framework of historical, political, medical, social, and ableist approaches to disability sets the stage for the study which …
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Cripping the Border – Acompañamiento as Access: An Ethnographic Case Study of Transborder Youth with Disabilities
… but as acts of defiance within the broader disability rights movement.</p> <p>As a teacher-activist, the researcher enacted acompañamiento through a decolonial methodology of community circles, testimonios, and go-along interviews conducted on both sides of the border. Findings reveal that …
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Changing bodies and minds: “Crippled children” and their movement in the United States, 1890-1960
… Bodies and Minds: ‘Crippled Children’ and Their Movement in the United States, 1890-1960” traces disabled activism within the “crippled children’s movement,” an early twentieth-century effort to promote the care, education, and support of children with orthopedic disabilities headquartered in the …
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Disability Awareness Education and Implications For Genetic Counselor Training
… GCs feel prepared to have conversations about disability, as well as strengthen the relationship with the disability community. This study aimed to evaluate the landscape of GC disability awareness education to identify gaps and strengths. The study also aimed to assess attitudes and …
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The new political economy of disability: transnational networks and individualised funding in the age of neoliberalism
Disability support systems have undergone significant changes in contexts of rapid neoliberalisation. Services that were once provided or commissioned by the state are now increasingly delivered on an individual basis, through cash budgets and other forms of ‘individualised funding’ (IF). These …
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Being-blind-in-the-world: a phenomenological analysis of blindness and a formulation of new objectives in rehabilitation
… of blind people themselves by way of a disability rights movement. Finally, attention is focused on the effect of South African racial policies on welfare work. The principle of equal opportunity cannot be practised under present legislation.
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Imag(in)ing Neuro-Psychology: A Multi-Perspectival, Critical, Autoethnographic Study
Neuropsychology in the United States initially strove to diagnose brain damage. Recently, this diagnostic task has been largely usurped by the emergence of neuroimaging. Despite the encroachment upon the traditional territory of neuropsychology, neuropsychology has continued relatively unchanged. …
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Disability as an entanglement: A new materialist reimagination of disability
… humanity, despite decades of hard work from the disability rights movement, support workers, and families and whānau, among many others (Goodley, 2017). In this thesis, I seek to find some answers as to why this situation persists. I seek further to investigate if this ongoing marginalisation can …