disability advocacy
Fighting for accessibility
Disability advocacy is work to advance the rights, inclusion, and fair treatment of people with disabilities.
Advocates push for accessible buildings, employment protections, educational accommodations, and policy changes.
The movement emphasizes that disabled people should lead conversations about their own needs: Nothing about us without us became the rallying cry of disability advocacy.
- anti-discrimination lawsLegislation forbidding unequal treatment
- peer support groupsEquals helping equals cope
- independent livingManaging without assistance
- accessibility standardsDesign rules for inclusion
- curb cutsSloped sidewalk transitions
equal access · reasonable accommodations · workplace accommodations · media representation · self-determination · human rights treaties · community organizing · personal narratives · universal design · civil rights movement · assistive technologies · training programs · accessible transportation · educational resources · adaptive tools · activism · ADA · visibility
- disabilityADA, ableism, amputee, wheelchair, wheelchairs
- disability employmentreasonable accommodation, workplace accessibility, ADA, accommodations, accommodation
- disability servicesassistive technology, inclusive education, special needs, rehabilitation services, personal assistance
- Pro Bono Serviceslegal aid, public defender, legal clinics, legal advice, free clinics
- special educationspecial education, special ed, special needs, IEP, IEPs
- youth policyyouth councils, youth voice, youth leadership, youth employment, juvenile justice
disability advocacypaternalism
Controlling others for their good
institutionalization · pity · savior complex · infantilization · overprotection
disability advocacyableism
Bias against disabled individuals
disability discrimination · eugenics · exclusion · forced sterilization · social Darwinism
disability advocacyapathy
Absence of feeling
indifference · silence · inaction · neglect · willful ignorance