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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"disability rights"”.
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Becoming and Remaining an Activist: A Qualitative Study of Animal and Disability Rights Activism among Older Youth
… becoming and remaining involved in the animal rights movement: 1) education, 2) gender, 3) lifestyle, 4) parental involvement, 5) first event, 6) empathy, and 7) collective identity. This research study also adopted a comparative lens and explored the similarities and differences in responses …
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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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Discourse, Narrative and Agency: A Contribution of Local Stories to Disability Theory, Research and Professional Practice
… concept of agency was relevant to disability studies. In locating this study as a contribution to the knowledge of disability and disablement, the initial chapters explore the theoretical genealogy of disability studies and the methodology for the study. In broad terms this has been …
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THE TENSIONS OF NORTHERN IMPORTS: DISABILITY AND INCLUSION IN KENYAN PRIMARY EDUCATION
… Northern concepts of inclusive education and disability rights are imported to countries in the global South. Specifically, through this project I examined the development of a sustainable inclusive education system in western Kenya through community-based participatory research (CBPR) and …
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Disability in South Africa : collective recourse for family members as right bearers
… study is to highlight the very real fact that disability does not only affect the life of the individual with the disability but it also affects each and every member of an affected family. This will include extended family members. Every person is entitled to rights and freedoms as stipulated …
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Laughing Back: A Phenomenological Study of Disability Humor Using Culturally Responsive Methodologies
… not been viewed as innovators of humor because disability is associated with tragedy. My dissertation challenged the association of disability with tragedy by positioning disabled comedians as educators and ambassadors of disability rights. I reviewed the literature on disability and humor as …
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Cripping Justice: Enabling Theory on Disability
Disability activism and disability studies have, over the last half-century, evolved theories to understand disability and operationalise justice for disabled people. Historically, the starting point is the Medical Model, where disability is a bodily ‘defect’, and therefore the responsibility of …
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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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The Potential Impact of Dance for Disabled Young Adults
… over five weeks. This class design, rooted in a disability rights model, provides dance training as taught in a typical dance studio. Results from nine hours of video, three hours of recorded participant interviews, field notes, and research team observations indicate positive outcomes for both …
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The ethics of the AIDS-afflicted physician: The death of voluntary compliance
… The discussion encompasses evaluation of rights of the individual, natural and otherwise, with focus on the rights of confidentiality, privacy, and disability rights and related laws that pertain to afflicted individuals. The discussion will examine the ethical responsibilities of the HIV …
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Challenges and Opportunities of Chinese Immigrant Students with Intellectual Disabilities in Transition Services
… of self, nature of relationships, beliefs about disability, and challenges and opportunities are examined. The study surfaces complex social, cultural, and economic factors that impact students’ experiences. Data indicates that participants’ sense of self are informed largely by negative …
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Disability discrimination of prospective adoptive and foster parents
… and the patchwork of state laws threaten that disability impedes persons throughout the United States from becoming adoptive or foster parents. Prospective parents with disabilities may face categorical denials when seeking to adopt or foster children. Many face bias and speculation concerning …
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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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Supporting children with ‘Social, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulty (SEBD)’ in mainstream: teachers' perspectives
… about their roles. Perspectives on models of disability and disability rights, performativity, professional identity for teachers, and SEBD, have informed analysis and understanding of the stories teachers told. The study explores how the relationship between teachers’ professional identity …
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Reflections on Disability: Perspectives on South Africa, India and the United States of America
The aim of this paper is to reflect on disability and social protection in three jurisdictions. [...] Section 1 provides an overview of the concept of disability. The background and trend disability has taken from the post-war period, which provided quota systems for the war veterans who were …
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Changing bodies and minds: “Crippled children” and their movement in the United States, 1890-1960
… slogan “nothing about us without us” used by the disability rights movement was a response to conditions created in the mid-twentieth century. Disabled men and women, particularly former “crippled children” such as polio survivor Blanche Van Leuven Browne, played essential roles in creating and …
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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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Suelen callar : the institutional perceptions and treatments of the sexuality and sexual abuse of people with intellectual and psychological disabilities in Guatemala
The understandings and treatments of the sexual rights of people with intellectual and psychological disabilities vary in different societies. However, one issue that is common in most societies is that this group of people experiences the highest rates of sexual violence and is regularly …
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