Smart, Julie.
Austin, Tex. : Pro-ed, c2009.
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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Acknowledgments — Abbreviations and terms — Introduction — pt. I. Definitions of disability — 1. Defining disability — The universality of disability, or disability is a natural part of everyone’s life — Does anyone know what normal is? — The link between the academic discipline of statistics and eugenics — Categorizing disabilities — Physical disabilities — Intellectual disabilities — Cognitive disabilities — Psychiatric disabilities — Does everyone have a disability of some sort? — There are more disabilities than ever before — Six reasons for increasing disability rates — 2. Models of disability : the biomedical model, the environmental model, the functional model, and the sociopolitical model — What are models of disability? — The biomedical model of disability — The environmental model of disability — The functional model of disability — The sociopolitical model of disability — Models of disability, American legislation, and agencies that serve persons with disabilities — Dichotomy or continuum? — Additional categories of disabilities — The Americans with Disabilities Act : equal opportunity under the law — The ADA definition of disability — Results of the ADA — Talking about disability — Labels that attempt to describe all those different from the majority.
• pt. II. Society and disability — 3. Sources of prejudice and discrimination, part 1 — Societal prejudices often become self-identifiers — Prejudice against people with disabilities (PWDs) today in the United States — The outcomes of the ADA — Examining prejudice and discrimination against PWDs — The economic threat — The safety threat — The ambiguity of disability — The salience of the perceived defining nature of the disability — Spread or overgeneralization — Assisted suicide — 4. Sources of prejudice and discrimination, part 2 — Moral accountability for the cause of disability — Moral accountability for the management of the disability — The inferred emotional consequence of the disability, or difficult does not mean tragic — Society’s emphasis on health, fitness, and beauty — Fear of acquiring a disability or existential angst, or there but for the grace of God go I — Three societal responses to disability — Charity telethons or elephants running in the forest — Civil rights for PWDs — What is justice? — 5. The effects of prejudice and discrimination — Are disabilities viewed as difference or as deviance? — Are PWDs differently challenged ? — Do disabilities always lead to social inferiority? — Handicapism — The handicapism of well-intentioned people — The contact theory — Equal social status contact — Perceptions of the disability that may be associated with prejudice — The degree of visibility of the disability — Other factors that influence the perception of PWDs — Disabled heroes — The drawbacks to having disabled heroes — Aesthetic qualities of the disability — Impression management — Simulation exercises — 6. Experiencing prejudice and discrimination — Introduction — Stereotyping — Pity — Role entrapment — Lowered expectations, or let’s give those poor disabled people a break — Lack of privacy — Hypervisibility and overobservation — Solo status — Token status — Paternalism — Infantilization — Viewing PWDs as objects — Viewing PWDs as animals -
• pt. III. The individual and disability — 7. The individual’s response to disability — View from the outside versus life on the inside — Acceptance of disability or response to disability — What is a good response to a disability? — Cognitive restructuring — What is a poor response to a disability? — Secondary gains, malingering, and psychogenic pain disorder — Problems in measuring an individual’s response to a disability — The stage model of adaptation to disability — The stages of response in disability — Transcendence — Advantages of the stage theory — Cautions in implementing the stage theory — Appendix 7-A. First-person narratives of people with disabilities — Appendix 7-B. Acceptance of disability scale — 8. The onset and diagnosis of the disability — Factors that affect the impact of the onset of disability — Time of onset — Parents of children with congenital disabilities — Atypical childhood experiences — Hearing children of parents who are deaf — Prelingual deafness — Congenital blindness or blindness acquired in infancy — Residential schools — Acquired disabilities — The developmental stage of acquisition — Type of onset — The impact of a long prediagnosis period — 9. Other factors of the disability — The course of the disability — The phases or stages of the course of a disability — The three types of courses — Degenerating episodic disabilities — Communication difficulties — The meaning of the loss of functioning — Severity of the disability — Quality of life — Pain and trauma of the disability — Chronic pain — Psychogenic pain disorder — More about pain — The degree of stigma directed toward the disability — The degree of visibility of the disability — Degree of disfigurement of the disability — Body image — Disfigurements as social handicaps — The treatment of individuals with disfiguring disabilities — Services — The perspective of the client/consumer — What do PWDs want from professional care providers? — Autonomy, independence, and control –

Subjects:

• People with disabilities — Social conditions.
• Discrimination against people with disabilities.
• Sociology of disability.
• Disabled Persons.
• Attitude.
• Disabled Persons — psychology.
• Prejudice.

Requested by O’Conner, S.