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	A Brief History of Disability Rights Legislation in the United States: Welch / Palames
		Civilians with disabilities were largely invisible and unaccounted for by the government until the latter half of the twentieth century when the social and physical isolation of people with physical and mental disability became the focus of civil rights legislation.
		The disability rights movement began to be a force and have its agendas recognized in legislation during the 1970's, starting with the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
		At this time the disability movement, from the conservative to the radical wing of the movement, was unified in the view that what was needed was not a new and better brand of social welfare system, but a fundamental examination and redefinition of the democratic tradition of equal opportunity and equal rights.
	www.udeducation.org /resources/readings/welch.asp (2955 words)

	THE DISABILITY RIGHTS MOVEMENT: A BRIEF HISTORY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In pre-industrial times, when people with disabilities often were unable to support themselves or their families, they were seen as social dependents, objects of pity or recipients of charity.
		On a parallel track to the disability rights movement was a campaign to provide access to educational services for children and youth with disabilities.
		Disability culture is aimed at fostering pride in one's disabilities, creating positive self-images, and building a society which not only accepts, but also celebrates, diversity.
	bangkok.usembassy.gov /services/docs/work4.htm (1093 words)

	Movement Building - Disability movement and civil rights movements
		Disabled people could not, the critics have complained, on the one hand,.claim equal opportunity and equal social standing, and, on the other, demand "special", privileges such as accommodations and public financial aid (e.g., health insurance).
		The disability of blindness was a physical condition that incurred significant expense and limitations, he argued, and therefore required societal aid.
		In order for people with disabilities to be respected as worthy Americans, to be considered as whole persons or even approximations of persons, they have been instructed that they must perpetually labor to "overcome" their disabilities.
	www.disabledandproud.com /movement.htm (5144 words)

	ASTC - Resource Center - Accessible Practices - Disability Rights Movement
		By its acceptance of differences, the campaign for disability rights has forged a powerful coalition of millions of people with disabilities, their families, and those that work with them.
		The Disability Rights Movement exhibition opened in July 2000, amid celebrations for the 10th anniversary of the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
		He examines the impact of technology on aid for the disabled, the need for nursing home reform, and the potential for backlash as the public becomes aware of the costs of implementing disability laws.
	www.astc.org /resource/access/rights.htm (404 words)

	Article on the Disability Rights Movement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Taking their cues from the civil rights movements of fls, women and other minorities, Roberts and fellow disability rights leaders would challenge widely held myths that people with disabilities were incapable of being educated, working, caring for themselves, or becoming contributing members of society.
		The disability rights movement, which won that law, began the day Roberts -- who was so severely disabled that he spent most of his day in an iron lung -- arrived on the Berkeley campus.
		Because of their movement's successes, people with disabilities are a protected class in civil rights legislation, empowered by law as well as united against discrimination.
	www.disabilityculture.org /course/article3.htm (1800 words)

	Federal Transit Administration - Disability Rights Movement Timeline Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Disability rights activists in ten cities stage demonstrations and occupations of the offices of the federal department of Health Education and Welfare (HEW) to force the Carter Administration to issue regulations implementation Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
		The Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF) is founded in Berkeley, California, becoming the nation's preeminent disability rights legal advocacy center and participating in much of the landmark litigation and lobbying of the 1980s and 1990s.
		Disability rights advocates, led by Patrisha Wright at the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF) and Evan Kemp, Jr.
	www.fta.dot.gov /9889_ENG_HTML.htm (8587 words)

	Disability Rights Watch
		We are the national spokespersons for the rights of millions of Americans with disabilities whose voices are often not heard over the din of political and religious rhetoric.
		The "right to life" movement has embraced her as a cause to prove "sanctity of life." The "right to die" movement believes she is too disabled to live and therefore better off dead.
		The fear of disability and the resulting bigotry adhered to by most non-disabled Americans is often cited by people with disabilities as one of the most difficult barriers to overcome.
	www.zmag.org /disabilityrights.htm (1958 words)

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		Law 94-142) is passed, establishing the right of children with disabilities to a public school education in an integrated environment.
		Department of Education, that schools must pay the expenses of disabled children enrolled in private programs during litigation under the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975, if the courts rule such placement is needed to provide the child with an appropriate education in the least restrictive environment.
		Snider, rules that the continued publicly funded institutionalization of a disabled Pennsylvania woman in a nursing home, when not medically necessary, and where the state of Pennsylvania could offer her the option of home care, is a violation of her rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
	www.sfsu.edu /~hrdpu/chron.htm (8780 words)

	THE DISABILITY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
		As such the DRM movement has demanded or I should say, made the greatest demand on the American Political, and governmental system.
		Unlike the Black Civil Rights movement, which was essentially about equality, the DRM is 54 million person personal crusades.
		In the disability pecking order, I regret to inform my friends with mental health issues, they are at the bottom of the ladder, and that they have a huge public image problem to overcome.
	www.ilusa.com /webloggers/R2D2_110503.htm (990 words)

	Book Review: Encyclopedia on the U.S. Disability Rights Movement
		Although disability rights and self-definition are inherent in the current legal, political, and social perspectives on disability, rarely are they articulated as directly and consistently as this.
		The apology reflects the model of the "good, well-adjusted disabled person" who wants what everyone else wants and does not want to be a bother, nor any trouble, hoping for the beneficence of a just society.
		He could have easily complained that the system of rehabilitation set-up by Mary Switzer (et al) in the United States in the 1950s is now obsolete and hampers the disability community, but instead he outlines the major strides she made in legislation, programs, and in support of culture (The National Theater of the Deaf).
	www.disabilityworld.org /07-08_01/resources/review.shtml (686 words)

	Doris Zames Fleischer, Frieda Zames: The Disability Rights Movement
		Doris Zames Fleischer, Frieda Zames: The Disability Rights Movement
		Referring to the Americans with Disabilities Act as "every American's insurance policy," the authors recount the genesis of this civil rights approach to disability, from the almost forgotten disability activism of the 1930s, to the independent living movement of the 1970s, to the call for disability pride of the 1990s.
		Like other civil rights struggles, the disability rights movement took place in the streets and in the courts as activists fought for change in the schools, the workplace, and in the legal system.
	www.temple.edu /tempress/titles/1280_reg.html (1191 words)

	A Chronology of The disability Rights Movement
		The Civil Rights Act is passed, outlawing discrimination on the basis of race in public accommodations and employment, as well as in federally assisted programs.
		Disabled in Action is founded in New York City by Judith Heumann, after hersuccessful employment discrimination suit against the city's public school system.
		The American Indian Disability Legislation Project is established to collect data on Native American disability rights laws and regulations.
	www.handinet.org /chronology.htm (8265 words)

	Dis Rights Movement Wants...
		Accordingly, the disability rights movement's experts should be given the same media airtime as spokespersons for the religious right.
		Funding for public education about the perspectives of people living with significant disabilities on the difference between end-of-life decisions and decisions to end the lives of disabled people who are not otherwise dying.
		A moratorium on the removal of food and water from people diagnosed in "persistent vegetative state" and "minimally conscious state" in the absence of new diagnostic processes discussed in recent medical journal Neurology, or a written advance directive/power of attorney by the person.
	www.notdeadyet.org /docs/drmwants0305.html (409 words)

	Book Review from Ragged Edge.
		Readers might believe that the disability rights movement was born out of the African-American civil rights struggle of the 1960s and the emerging women's and gay liberation movements of the 1970s.
		Long before leaders of Disabled In Action were even born, a small group of New Yorkers with disabilities fought for rights and were branded Communists for their efforts.
		Whether writing of the disability rights movement -- the early one or the one of the last three decades -- or discussing such hot issues as physician-assisted suicide and ADA backlash, the authors turn what could have been a rather dry historical book into one that absolutely compels us to read on.
	www.ragged-edge-mag.com /0501/0501bkrev1.htm (1089 words)

	~Disability Rights Act~ Need help, don't know where to turn, not sure what you are entitled too, we can help Everything ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Civil Rights Division Disability Rights Section http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/cguide.htm Employment Federal employment is covered by Section 501 of the Rehabilitation Act and Title I of the...
		Disability Rights Commission The Disability Rights Commission (DRC) is an independent body established in April 2000 by Act of Parliament to stop discrimination and promote equality of opportunity...
		With Disabilities Act article by former U.S. Attorney General Thornburgh nomination of Attorney General Ashcroft was opposed by AAPD because of his disability rights record An ADA Attorney...
	www.disabilityny.com /h (818 words)

	Empowerment
		Americans with disabilities are the poorest of the poor.
		Millions more, their families and friends are personally impacted by disability rights.
		We of the disability community have a unique ability and therefore a unique responsibility, to lead the world toward a culture that empowers all to live the life of quality that is possible.
	www.mouthmag.com /justin/empower.html (3362 words)

	Disability Rights Movement / Family Village (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		People with disabilities fighting so that they can live in the community with real supports instead of being locked away in nursing homes and other institutions.
		The Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities is a coalition of approximately one hundred national disability organizations working together to advocate for national public policy that ensures the self determination, independence, empowerment, integration and inclusion of children and adults with disabilities in all aspects of society.
		Disability Rights Promotion International is a collaborative project to establish an international monitoring system to address disability discrimination worldwide.
	www.familyvillage.wisc.edu /general/rights.html (236 words)

	Microsoft Helps Smithsonian Showcase History of Disability Rights Movement: Microsoft Windows 2000 is included in an ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Microsoft Helps Smithsonian Showcase History of Disability Rights Movement: Microsoft Windows 2000 is included in an exhibition about the disability rights movement to show the importance of computers and technology to people with disabilities.
		Microsoft Windows 2000 is included in an exhibition about the disability rights movement to show the importance of computers and technology to people with disabilities.
		According to Ott, this is the first time that a museum has attempted to interpret the history of the disability rights movement as a political issue similar to other civil rights movements.
	www.microsoft.com /presspass/features/2000/jul00/07-06smithsonian.mspx (1269 words)

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		They may be borrowed by individuals with a visual or physical disability through a cooperating network library.
		Portraying persons with disabilities: an annotated bibliography of nonfiction for children and teenagers.
		Equals in partnership: basic rights for families of children with blindness or visual impairment.
	www.lcweb.loc.gov /nls/reference/circulars/collection.txt (4985 words)

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