Disability is a concept that has been gaining more and more attention in both political and
academic discourses throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. The growing academic field …

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak notes in Death of a Discipline (2003), that a simple splice in the
example of comparative literature and cultural studies/multiculturalism will both “work” and …

INTRODUCTION… there was increasing anger, hostility and suspicion among organizations
of disabled people that much that passed as 'disability research'was nothing more than a 'rip …

Disability studies scholars and disability rights activists have long criticized the dominant
medical model of disability. In this model, disability is conceptualized as an individual deficit …

Abstract The Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990, and the ADA Amendments Act
(ADAAA) of 2008, are effecting dramatic changes in the perception of cognitive and other …

Catalina Devandas Aguilar is the first United Nations Special Rapporteur appointed by the
Human Rights Council to support the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of …

Names: Turnbull, Ann P., author. Title: Exceptional lives: practice, progress, & dignity in
today's schools/Ann Turnbull, University of Kansas, Beach Center on Disability, Rud …

Growing numbers of human beings live with profound and multiple learning difficulties and
disabilities. Exploring the moral, social and political implications of this trend, Valuing …

Disability is increasingly being recognised as a universal human condition with enormous
social and economic consequences. The World Health Organization and The World Bank …