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	American Association of School Administrators - Publications - The School Administrator - Beyond Inclusion
		The lens of ableism offers a useful perspective through which the future of inclusion and indeed all of special education can be considered.
		The various definitions of ableism in the literature share common origins that are rooted in the discrimination and oppression that many disabled people experience in society.
		First, there needs to be a recognition that education plays a central role in integrating disabled people in all aspects of society both by giving children the education they need to compete and by demonstrating to nondisabled children that disability is a natural aspect of life.
	aasa.org /publications/saarticledetail.cfm?ItemNumber=2595&... (2453 words)

	billie’s diary » blogging against ableism day! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		ableism is the expectation that i will be grateful for the privilege of participation in activities and events that are taken for granted in the nondisabled world.
		ableism is friendships that end before they begin because there are so many others out there who require no advance preparation to be with.
		ableism is a socially constructed form of oppression that systematically isolates and penalizes people who are percieved as, or experience life outside the socially constructed idea of physical, mental and emotional normalcy.
	pscap.org /billiesdiary/2006/05/02/blogging-against-ableism-day (228 words)

	Thomas Hehir-Eliminating Ableism in Education-Harvard Educational Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The various definitions of ableism in the literature share common origins that are rooted in the discrimination and oppression that many disabled people experience in society (Overboe, 1999; Weeber, 1999).
		Though the lack of attention to ableism in schooling is unfortunate, activists within the disability community have long recognized its impact (Rauscher and McClintock, 1997).
		Penny’s intuitive challenge to ableism is paying off, and she looks forward to the day when Joe will not only support himself, but help support her.
	gseweb.harvard.edu /~hepg/hehir.htm (14011 words)

	Chapter 20 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		As noted, ableism has become increasingly amplified by the warehousing of individuals with disabilities in institutional settings; by the sensationalistic and inappropriate portrayal of people with disabilities in the arts and the media; by the tear jerking and heart-wrenching national telethon appeals to give money to help the “crippled children” live longer.
		Perhaps nowhere is ableism more frequently practiced than in the medical and rehabilitation system that is supposedly designed to help people with disabilities increase their participation and quality of life.
		Values and concepts that could reduce the effects of ableism were identified and two exemplary studies were presented on approaches that could be used to empower and enable people with disabilities to increase their participation and quality of life.
	people.vanderbilt.edu /~isaac.prilleltensky/chaptwenty.htm (9942 words)

	The Challenge of Disability - Victor Carpenter
		To be oppressed by ableism is to be excluded and demeaned by a culture that defines the human in narrow and exclusive terms.
		Ableism is one more manifestation of this noxious doctrine elevated to the level of social ideology.
		Ableism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries regards the presence of persons with disability as a problem for society but not a socially constructed problem.
	www.uuma.org /BerryStreet/Essays/BSE1991.htm (8587 words)

	Paco Pond: May 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Ableism is a form of discrimination based on the perception that being able-bodied is the normal human condition and is superior to being disabled.
		For many, ableism is an unfamiliar notion—an uncommon word that a reader might look at twice.
		Ableism is seen at its most obstinate when expressed by able-bodied people as patronizing insistence that impaired people should strive to perform as if they were not impaired.
	pacopond.blogspot.com /2006_05_01_pacopond_archive.html (1573 words)

	Left Out
		Though the word "ableism" was skewered as the ultimate bad result of political correctness in the 1990s, in reality the politically-correct crowd almost always forgets about disability rights when they make their lists.
		Perhaps the reason "ableism" rarely makes it into the listings is because people don't really believe in what it signals -- that there is hatred-based bigotry against disabled people.
		What had happened was that social censorship -- the censorship that occurs naturally when the majority in a society itself comes to believe that certain ways of speaking about a group are morally indefensible -- had taken hold.
	www.raggededgemagazine.com /mediacircus/leftout.html (751 words)

	Attempted Suicide, Completed
		All were clearly oppressed by ableism, living as disabled people in a society that hates disability.
		The "mainstream" model of disability doesn't admit ableism, and therefore doesn't see that the unemployment, social isolation and institutionalization that we fear or face is not a necessary part of disability but an artifact of oppression.
		Those who do not recognize ableism or who naturalize it cannot see that the actual problem is that physician-induced dying both reinforces and is part of the ableism that permeates society.
	www.raggededgemagazine.com /0301/0301ft4.htm (1803 words)

	Ableism is...
		Ableism is prejudice that exists and affects people who practice it and people who are a target of it.
		The definition of ableism is discrimination or prejudice against people who have disabilities, especially people who have physical disabilities (“2 entries found for ’ableism’”).
		An understanding of general traits of prejudice can help people understand what ableism looks and sounds like. This is discussed further on the “Suspect #1: Prejudice” page.
	members.cox.net /ableism/index_files/Page504.htm (106 words)

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		ableism, classism), and the ways these oppressions form an interlocking system through which they strengthen and maintain each other.
		ableism, classism, racism), and the ways these oppressions are systemically linked so that they strengthen and maintain each other (Bell, 1997).
		ableism, classism, racism, gender, sexual orientation, affirmative action).
	www.utoronto.ca /equitystudies/paraph.doc (618 words)

	Background of Ableism
		Despite the significant changes concerning people with disabilities throughout these centuries, ableism still occurred and would be transported along with the founding fathers to the American shores.
		As an outgrowth of the American Revolution and Civil War, attitudes of society toward people who acquired disabilities as a function of war differed from attitudes toward those who were born with disabilities.
		In 1927, a case was heard in the Supreme Court, concerning sterilization of a particular person with a disability (“The History of Disabled Persons in America”). The final ruling would affect a larger scale of people. In this case, Buck v.
	members.cox.net /ableism/index_files/Page534.htm (479 words)

	Past Issues - January/February 2006
		Thomas Hehir is professor of practice and director of the School Leadership Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and former director of the U.S. Department of education’s Office of Special Education Programs.
		Ableism is essentially like racism and sexism and homophobia.
		It’s a societal prejudice against people with disabilities, some of which is blatant-like when disabled people aren’t ableto attend an event because they use a wheelchair-and some of which is more subtle, such as the desire for disabled people to perform life tasks in the same ways as nondisabled people.
	www.edletter.org /past/issues/2006-jf/abstracts.shtml (472 words)

	SOA Watch
		Deeply rooted beliefs about health, productivity, beauty, and the value of human life, perpetuated by the public and private media, combine to create an environment that is often hostile to those whose physical, emotional, cognitive, or sensory abilities fall outside the scope of what is currently defined as socially acceptable.
		We use the terms ableism or disability oppression because they reflect the viewpoint that people with disabilities or with physical or mental limitations, are considered to be inadequate in meeting expected social and economic roles.
		Oppression of Young People (from the day they are born), based on their age, by care givers (who are used as the oppression agents) and by the society and its institutions.
	www.soaw.org /new/article.php?id=629 (3934 words)

	Tom Hehir at North Coast Education Summit
		He is the author of what is being heralded as a landmark essay that appeared in the Spring 2002 Harvard Educational Review, titled "Eliminating Ableism in Education." Hehir served as director of the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education Programs from 1993-1999.
		I’m going to be speaking on the issue of “ableism” and the need to eliminate ableism.
		Judy was the first person I was with to use the term “ableism”.
	www.humboldt.edu /~edsummit/hehir.htm (12493 words)

	ableism
		Disabled people coined this word to mirror the form and meaning of existing words like racism and sexism.
		Ableism can take the form of anything from the prejudice that casts individual disabled people as tragic and childlike objects of pity, to the systems in society which exclude large numbers of disabled people from gainful employment or a decent standard of living.
		The word can be used to describe both negative and seemingly positive stereotypes.
	www.personal.psu.edu /jck14/ableism.htm (125 words)

	Ballastexistenz » Blog Archive » Barnard Power
		But nor is all criticism, or all accusations of ableism, mere “negativity” that spoils this (whichever) amazing and wonderful community.
		So, I guess the point of all this is, there are many forms of ableism that go overlooked within communities, precisely because of what the communities mean to many of the people in them.
		And ableism isn’t always obvious, it doesn’t carry a neon sign in our thoughts and actions saying “We are being ableist,” but it is no less there.
	ballastexistenz.autistics.org /?p=82 (3752 words)

	New Directions in Special Education: Eliminating Ableism in Policy and Practice
		With this volume, leading scholar and disability advocate Thomas Hehir opens a new round of debate on the future of special education.
		Extending the conceptual framework developed in his seminal 2002 article in the Harvard Educational Review, "Eliminating Ableism in Education," Hehir examines the ways that cultural attitudes about disability systematically distort the education of children with special needs and uses this analysis to lay out a fresh approach to special education policy and practice.
		Hehir traces the roots of "ableism"--the pervasive devaluation of people with disabilities--and shows how negative attitudes continue to shape debates in the field.
	www.nprinc.com /spec_edu/ndse.htm (211 words)

	vegankid » Blog Archive » we are made invisible
		When we think of people with disabilities, we tend to conjure up images of people in wheelchairs, blind people, or people with autism.
		And while such people are certainly victimized by ableism, they are not the only ones.
		They are considered less-than-humyn as the world turns a blind eye to the millions who are dying.
	vegankid.solidaritydesign.net /2006/05/02/we-are-made-invisible (1462 words)

	ZNet Commentary: The Social Movement Left Out
		Can we call this anything other than disablism or ableism -- ableism being defined as "any social relations, practices, and ideas that presume that all people are able-bodied"?
		Nondisabled activists and scholars have fervently studied and challenged the rational explanation for oppression based on identity - in particular, gender, race, and ethnicity - but excluded disability.
		Yet to this day class, race, gender and sexual oppression are often alluded to in developing vision and strategy for social change in leftist circles -- disability, too often, is not.
	www.zmag.org /sustainers/content/2002-08/31russell.cfm (1631 words)

	Pride is Power - What is Disability Pride - Disabiltiy Pride is Power
		While as children we may have been helpless to challenge society's discrimination, as adults we have a chance to change the situation.
		Disability Pride is an integral part of movement building, and a direct challenge to systemic ableism and stigmatizing definitions of disability.
		It is a militant act of self-definition, a purposive valuing of that which is socially devalued, and an attempt to untangle ourselves from the complex matrix of negative beliefs, attitudes, and feelings that grow from the dominant group's assumption that there is something inherently wrong with our disabilities and identity.
	www.disabledandproud.com /power.htm (2767 words)

	Find in a Library: New directions in special education : eliminating ableism in policy and practice
		Find in a Library: New directions in special education : eliminating ableism in policy and practice
		New directions in special education : eliminating ableism in policy and practice
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	worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/efec140f8aada158a19afeb4da09e526.html (72 words)

	Readings for Diversity and Social Justice: An Anthology on Racism, Sexism, Classism, Anti-Semitism, Heterosexsm, and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Reader contains a mix of short personal and theoretical essays as well as entries designed to challenge students to take action to end oppressive behavior and to affirm diversity and racial justice.
		The first reader to cover the scope of oppressions in America, Readings for Diversity and Social Justice will cover the six "isms": racism, sexism, anti-Semitism, heterosexism, classism and ableism.
		The Reader will contain a mix of short personal and theoretical essays and will be designed as an introduction to the topics at hand.
	www.powerbooksearch.com /booksearch0415926343.html (432 words)

	Roots, Leaves and Threads
		While I’ve long been aware of differences in word usage between my native land, the United States and Britain, I had not realized there were differences in disability terminology.
		Disablism, as discussed in the last post is a British term, the equivalent to the American “ableism”.
		I’ve never heard the term “disablism”; used before but I realized when thinking about this that a more apt term would be dis/ableism.
	caelesti.wordpress.com (2665 words)

	TCRecord: Article
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		She received her Ph.D. from the Faculty of Education at Deakin University, Victoria, Australia.
		Her thesis, “Learning and teaching about disability: The possibility of disestablishing ableism,” examines the conditions required to identify, confront, and change ableist views through the processes of adult education.
	www.tcrecord.org /Content.asp?ContentID=12353 (310 words)

	C. Cleigh: Why We Protest
		This is very likely not any individuals' (personal) fault.
		It is a fact, as Irv Zola observed, that ableism is "metabolized in the bloodstream of society." I would not even blame `Dirty Harry' for his ableism were he not taking a role very like that George Wallace played vis vis an earlier movement to end discrimination.
		For this to be understandable, and inoffensive to other minorities, it must be understood that I am Cherokee although many think that my appearance (coloration, etc.) is European.
	www.notdeadyet.org /docs/oscars05protest/cleighwhyprotest0305.html (780 words)

	Random Reminiscing Ramblings: Blogging against ableism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		I'm hugging you so that you'll calm down
		It seems there will be a lot of people blogging about ableism (or disablism, if you prefer) on May 1st (found out about it thanks to Book Girl).
		It seems like a good idea, so if I'm able to (no pun intended), I'm going to participate.
	elmindreda.blogspot.com /2006/04/blogging-against-ableism.html (133 words)

	ableism - English-French Dictionary - WordReference.com
		We found no French translation for 'ableism' in our English to French Dictionary.
		Or did you want to translate 'ableism' from French to English?
		Forum discussions with the word(s) 'ableism' in the title:
	www.wordreference.com /enfr/ableism (57 words)

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