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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 language, as in "autistic person" or "deaf person", is preferred by many people and organizations. [2] Language can influence individuals' perception of disabled people and disability. [3]
Community integration, while diversely defined, is a term encompassing the full participation of all people in community life. It has specifically referred to the integration of people with disabilities into US society [1] [2] from the local to the national level, and for decades was a defining agenda in countries such as Great Britain. [3]
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 ...
American disabled sportspeople (5 C, 187 P) W. American wheelchair users (2 C, 105 P) ... Pages in category "American people with disabilities"
Government reports began from the 1970s to reflect this changing view of disability (Wolfensberger uses the term devalued people), e.g. the NSW Anti-Discrimination Board report of 1981 made recommendations on "the rights of people with intellectual handicaps to receive appropriate services, to assert their rights to independent living so far as ...
The Independent Living Movement [2] grew out of the disability rights movement, which began in the 1960s.The IL Movement works at replacing the special education and rehabilitation experts' concepts of integration, normalization and rehabilitation with a new paradigm developed by people with disabilities themselves. [3]
Disabled people were no longer to be locked away in custodial institutions without treatment or education. [3] 1971 – The Mental Patients' Liberation Project was initiated in New York City. [3] 1971 – The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 was amended to bring people with disabilities (other than blindness) into the sheltered workshop system. [3]
People with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (1 C, 364 P) ... People with intellectual disability (4 C, 38 P) M. People with mental disorders (19 C, 51 P)