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  2. List of disability-related terms with negative connotations

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    The following is a list of terms, used to describe disabilities or people with disabilities, which may carry negative connotations or be offensive to people with or without disabilities. Some people consider it best to use person-first language, for example "a person with a disability" rather than "a disabled person." [1] However identity-first ...

  3. Models of disability - Wikipedia

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    Models of disability are analytic tools in disability studies used to articulate different ways disability is conceptualized by individuals and society broadly. [1] [2] Disability models are useful for understanding disagreements over disability policy, [2] teaching people about ableism, [3] providing disability-responsive health care, [3] and articulating the life experiences of disabled people.

  4. Disability in the United States - Wikipedia

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    People with disabilities in the United States are a significant minority group, making up a fifth of the overall population and over half of Americans older than eighty. [1] [2] There is a complex history underlying the U.S. and its relationship with its disabled population, with great progress being made in the last century to improve the livelihood of disabled citizens through legislation ...

  5. Ableism - Wikipedia

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    The law also created propaganda against people with disabilities; people with disabilities were displayed as unimportant towards progressing the Aryan race. [ 12 ] In 1939 Hitler signed the secret euthanasia program decree Aktion T4 , which authorized the killing of selected patients diagnosed with chronic neurological and psychiatric disorders.

  6. Disability - Wikipedia

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    The early disability rights movement was dominated by the medical model of disability, where emphasis was placed on curing or treating disabled people so that they would adhere to the social norm, but starting in the 1960s, rights groups began shifting to the social model of disability, where disability is interpreted as an issue of ...

  7. Disability abuse - Wikipedia

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    According to the World Health Organization (WHO) persons with disabilities make up around 15% of the world's population. Children with disabilities are three times more likely to face violence than non-disabled children, and there is an approximate 50% increased risk of experiencing violence for adults with mental health conditions. [2]

  8. Cognitive disengagement syndrome - Wikipedia

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    People with classic ADHD are more likely to be rejected in these situations because of their social intrusiveness or aggressive behavior. Compared to children with CDS, they are also much more likely to show antisocial behaviours like substance abuse , oppositional-defiant disorder or conduct disorder (frequent lying, stealing, fighting etc ...

  9. Category:English people with disabilities - Wikipedia

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    It includes English people that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. This is a set category . It should only contain pages that are English people with disability or lists of English people with disabilities , as well as subcategories containing those things (themselves set categories).