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| == Definitions and Models == | | ==[[Disability overview|Overview]]== |
| The [[International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health]] (ICF), produced by the [[World Health Organization]], distinguishes between body functions (physiological or psychological, e.g. vision) and body structures (anatomical parts, e.g. the eye and related structures). Impairment in bodily structure or function is defined as involving an anomaly, defect, loss or other significant deviation from certain generally accepted population standards, which may fluctuate over time. Activity is defined as the execution of a task or action. The ICF lists 9 broad domains of functioning which can be affected:
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| *Learning and applying knowledge
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| *General tasks and demands
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| *Mobility
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| *Domestic life
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| *Interpersonal interactions and relationships
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| *Major life areas
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| *Community, social and civic life.
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| (see also [[List of mental disorders]])
| | ==[[the disability rights movement|The Disability Rights Movement]]== |
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| The introduction to the ICF states that a variety of conceptual models has been proposed to understand and explain disability and functioning, which it seeks to integrate:
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| === The medical model=== | | ==[[Disability government policies and support|Government Policies and Support]]== |
| {{mainarticle|Medical model of disability}}
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| The Medical Model of Disability
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| The medical model of disability sees the disabled person as the problem. We are to be adapted to fit into the world as it is.
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| If this is not possible, then we are shut away in some specialised institution or isolated at home, where only our most basic needs are met.
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| © Self Direction Community Project 2000 - 2001[http://www.selfdirection.org]
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| The medical model views disability as a problem of the person, directly caused by disease, trauma, or other health condition which therefore requires sustained medical care provided in the form of individual treatment by professionals. In the medical model, management of the disability is aimed at "cure", or the individual’s adjustment and behavioral change that would lead to an "almost-cure" or effective cure. In the medical model, medical care is viewed as the main issue, and at the political level, the principal response is that of modifying or reforming [[healthcare]] policy.
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| === The social model=== | | ==Diagnosis== |
| {{mainarticle|Social model of disability}}
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| Impairment and chronic illness exist and they sometimes pose real difficulties for us. The disability movement comprises those disabled people and supporters who understand that we are, regardless of our particular impairment, subjected to a common oppression by the non-disabled world. We are of the view that the position of disabled people and the discrimination against us are socially created. This has little to do with our impairments. As disabled people we are often made to feel it's our own fault that we are different. The difference is that some part, or parts, of our body or mind are limited in their functioning. This is an impairment.
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| © Self Direction Community Project 2000 - 2001[http://www.selfdirection.org]
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| The social model of disability sees the issue of "disability" mainly as a socially created problem, and basically as a matter of the full integration of individuals into society (see [[Inclusion (disability rights)]]). In this model disability is not an attribute of an individual, but rather a complex collection of conditions, many of which are created by the social environment. Hence, in this model, the management of the problem requires [[social activist|social action]], and thus, it is the collective responsibility of society at large to make the environmental modifications necessary for the full participation of people with disabilities in all areas of social life. The issue is both [[cultural]] and [[ideological]], requiring individual, community, and large-scale social change. Viewed from this perspective equal access for people with impairment/disability is a human rights issue of major concern.
| | [[Disability physical examination|Physical Examination]] | [[Disability CT|CT]] | [[Disability other imaging findings|Other Imaging Findings]] | [[Disability other diagnostic studies|Other Diagnostic Studies]] |
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| == [[Impairment]], [[Culture]], [[Language]], & Labeling == | | ==Treatment== |
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| The [[American Psychological Association]] [[APA style|style guide]] states that, when identifying a person with an impairment, the person's name or pronoun should come first, and descriptions of the impairment/disability should be used so that the impairment is identified, but is not modifying the person. Improper examples would be "A [[Borderline]], a "[[Blind]] Person." For instance: people with/who have [[Down syndrome]], a man with/who has [[schizophrenia]] (instead of a [[Schizophrenic]] man), and a girl with [[paraplegia]]/who is [[paraplegic]].
| | [[Disability medical therapy|Medical Therapy]] | [[Disability surgery|Surgery]] | [[Disability primary prevention|Primary Prevention]] | [[Disability secondary prevention|Secondary Prevention]] | [[Disability cost-effectiveness of therapy|Cost-Effectiveness of Therapy]] | [[Disability future or investigational therapies|Future or Investigational Therapies]] |
| (This applies only to [[English language|English]], possibly other, [[preposition]]al languages, not [[postposition]]al languages.) It also states that a person's adaptive equipment should be described functionally as something that assists a person, not as something that limits a person (e.g., "A woman who uses a wheelchair" rather than "in" it or "confined" to it.
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| Many books on disability and [[disability rights]] point out that 'disabled' is an identity that one is not necessarily born with, as disabilities are more often acquired than [[congenital]]. Some disability rights activists use an acronym TAB, [[Temporarily Able-Bodied]], as a reminder that many people will develop disabilities at some point in their lives, due to accidents, [[illness]] (physical, mental or emotional), or late-emerging effects of genetics.
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| The late Prime Minister [[Olof Palme]] of [[Sweden]], speaking at the [[Stanford University Law School]] in the [[1970s]], summed up the divergence between [[U.S.]] and [[Sweden|Swedish]] attitudes towards people with disabilities:
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| * Americans regard the able-bodied and the disabled as, effectively, actively or not, consciously or subconsciously, ''two separate species'', whereas,
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| * Swedes regard them as ''humans in different life stages'': all babies are helpless, cared for by parents; sick people are cared by those who are well; elderly people are cared by those younger and healthier, etc. [[Able-bodied]] people are able to help those who need it, without [[pity]], because they know their turn at not being [[able-bodied]] will come.
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| Palme maintained that if it cost the country $US 40,000 per year to enable a person with a disability to work at a job that paid $40,000, the society gained a net benefit, because the society benefited by allowing this worker to participate cooperatively, rather than to be a drain on other people's time and money.
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| ==Other models==
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| *The moral model (Bowe, 1978) refers to the attitude that people are ''morally responsible'' for their own disability, including, at one extreme, as a result of bad actions of parents if [[congenital]], or as a result of practicing witchcraft if not. This attitude can be seen as a [[religious fundamentalist]] offshoot of the original [[animal]] roots of human beings, back when humans killed any baby that could not survive on its own in the wild (see [[Darwinism]]).
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| *The Expert/Professional Model has provided a traditional response to disability issues and can be seen as an offshoot of the Medical Model. Within its framework, professionals follow a process of identifying the impairment and its limitations (using the Medical Model), and taking the necessary action to improve the position of the disabled person. This has tended to produce a system in which an authoritarian, over-active service provider prescribes and acts for a passive client.
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| *The Tragedy/Charity Model depicts disabled people as victims of circumstance, deserving of [[pity]]. This and Medical Model are probably the ones most used by non-disabled people to define and explain disability. To counter this trend, disabled activists are fond of the slogan "[[PISS ON PITY]]".
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| *Social Adapted Model
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| *Economic Model
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| *Empowering Model
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| == Government policies and support ==
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| === United Kingdom ===
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| Under the [[Disability Discrimination Act]] (1995, extended in 2005), it is unlawful for organisations to discriminate (treat a disabled person less favourably, for reasons related to the person's disability, without justification) in employment; access to goods, facilities, services; managing, buying or renting land or property; education. Businesses must make "reasonable adjustments" to their policies or practices, or physical aspects of their premises, to avoid indirect discrimination.[http://www.drc-gb.org/the_law/legislation__codes__regulation/dda_and_related_statutes.aspx]
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| A number of financial and care support services are available, including Incapacity Benefit and Disability Living Allowance[http://www.direct.gov.uk/DisabledPeople/FinancialSupport/fs/en].
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| === United States ===
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| ====Discrimination in employment====
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| The US Rehabilitation Act of 1973 requires all organizations that receive government funding to provide accessiblity programs and services. A more recent law, the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which came in to effect in 1992, prohibits private employers, state and local governments and employment agencies and labor unions from discriminating against qualified individuals with disabilities in job application procedures, hiring, firing, advancement, compensation, job training, or in the terms, conditions and privileges of employment. This includes organizations like retail businesses, movie theaters, and restaurants. They must make "reasonable accommodation" to people with different needs. Protection is extended to anyone with (A) a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of the major life activities of an individual (B) a record of such an impairment or (C) being regarded as having such an impairment. The second and third critiera are seen as ensuring protection from unjust discrimination based on a perception of risk, just because someone has a record of impairment or appears to have a disability or illness (e.g. features which may be erroneously taken as signs of an illness).
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| ====African Americans and Disability====
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| According to the 2000 U.S. Census, the African American community has the highest rate of disability at 24.3 percent. Although people have come to better understand and accept different types of disability, there still remains a stigma attached to the disabled community. African Americans with a disability are subject to not only this stigma but also to the additional forces of race discrimination. African American women who have a disibility face tremendous discrimination due to their condition, race, and gender. Doctor Eddie Glenn of Howard University describes this situation as the "triple jeopardy" syndrome.
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| ====Social administration====
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| The US [[Social Security Administration]] defines disability in terms of inability to perform substantial gainful activity (SGA), by which it means “work paying minimum wage or better”. The agency pairs SGA with a "listing" of medical conditions that qualify individuals for benefits.
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| ====Education====
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| Under the [[Individuals with Disabilities Education Act]], special educational support is limited to children and youth falling in to one of a dozen disability categories (e.g., specific learning disability) and adds that, to be eligible, students must require both special education (modified instruction) and related services (supports such as speech and language pathology).
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| == Demographics ==
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| ===Difficulties in measuring===
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| The [[demography]] of disability is difficult. Counting persons with disabilities is far more challenging than is counting males.
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| That is because disability is not just a status condition, entirely contained within the individual. Rather, it is an interaction between medical status (say, having [[low vision]] or being [[Blindness|blind]]) and the environment.
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| === Estimates worldwide===
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| Estimates of worldwide and country-wide numbers of individuals with disabilities are problematic. The varying approaches taken to defining disability notwithstanding, demographers agree that the world population of individuals with disabilities is very large. The [[World Health Organization]], for example, estimates that there are as many as 600 million persons with disabilities. The [[United Nations]] estimate is 650 million. In the United States, for example, Americans with disabilities constitute the third-largest minority (after persons of Hispanic origin and African Americans); all three of those minority groups number in the 30-some millions in America. According to the U.S. Bureau of the Census, as of 2004, there were some 32 million adults (aged 18 or over) in the United States, plus another 5 million children and youth (under age 18). If one were to add impairments -- or limitations that fall short of being disabilities -- Census estimates put the figure at 51 million.
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| There is also widespread agreement among experts in the field that disability is more common in developing than in developed nations.
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| == Disability insurance—nationalized and private ==
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| Disability benefit, or disability pension, is the largest kind of [[disability insurance]], and is provided by government agencies to people who are unable to work due to a disability, temporarily or permanently. In the U.S., disability benefit is provided within the category of [[Supplemental Security Income]], and in Canada, within the [[Canada Pension Plan]]. In other countries, disability benefit may be provided under [[Social Security]] system.
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| Costs of disability pensions are steadily growing in Western countries, mainly European and the United States. It was reported that in the UK, expenditure on disability pensions accounted for 0.9% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 1980, but two decades later had reached 2.6% of GDP.<ref>OECD. Transforming disability into ability: Policies to promote work and income security for disabled people. Paris: OECD Publication Offices. 2003</ref><ref>Labriola M, Lund T. Self-reported sickness absence as a risk marker of future disability pension. Prospective findings from the DWECS/DREAM study 1990-2004. Int J Med Sci 2007; 4:153-158. http://www.medsci.org/v04p0153.htm</ref> Several studies have reported a link between increased sickness absence and elevated risk of future disability pension.<ref>Virtanen M, Kivimaki M, Vahtera J, Elovainio M, Sund R, Virtanen P, Ferrie JE. Sickness absence as a risk factor for job termination, unemployment, and disability pension among temporary and permanent employees. Occup Environ Med. 2006;63(3):212-7</ref> A study by Denmark researchers suggests that information on self-reported days of sickness absence can be used to effectively identify future potential groups for disability pension. [http://www.medsci.org/v04p0153.htm] These studies may provide useful information for policy makers, case managing authorities, employers, and physicians responsible for interventions aiming at reducing the cost and work disability.
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| Private, for-profit disability insurance plays a role in providing incomes to disabled people, but the nationalized programs are the safety net that catches most claimants.
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| == Adaptations ==
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| [[Assistive Technology]] (AT) is a generic term for devices and modifications (for a person or within a society) that help overcome or remove a disability. The first recorded example of the use of a [[prosthesis]] dates to at least 1800 BC.<ref>[http://www.disabilityhistory.org/timeline_new.html Disability Social History Project]</ref> A more recent notable example is the [[wheelchair]], dating from the [[17th Century]]. The [[curb cut]] is a related structural innovation. Other modern examples are [[standing frames]], text [[telephones]], accessible [[keyboards]], [[large print]], [[Braille]], & [[speech recognition]] [[Computer software]]. Individuals with disabilities often develop personal or community adaptations, such as strategies to suppress tics in public (for example in [[Tourette's syndrome]]), or [[sign language]] in [[deaf]] communities. Assistive technology or interventions are sometimes controversial or rejected, for example in the controversy over [[cochlear implants]] for children. A number of symbols are in use to indicate whether certain accessibility adaptations have been made[http://www.gag.org/resources/das.php].
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| ===Accessible computing===
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| As the [[personal computer]] has become more [[ubiquity|ubiquitous]], various organisations have been founded which [[software development|develop]] [[software]] and [[hardware]] which make a computer more accessible for people with disabilities. Some software and hardware, such as [[SmartboxAT]]'s ''[[The Grid (software)|The Grid]]'', and [[Freedom Scientific]]'s ''[[JAWS (screen reader)|JAWS]]'' has been specifically designed for people with disabilities; other pieces of software and hardware, such as [[Nuance Communications|Nuance]]'s [[Dragon NaturallySpeaking]], was not developed specifically for people with disabilities, but can be used to increase accessibility.
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| Further organisations, such as [[AbilityNet]] and [[U Can Do IT]], have been established to provide assessment services which determine which assistive technologies would best assist an individual client, and also to train people with disabilities in how to use computer-based assistive technology.
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| ==Related Chapters== | | ==Related Chapters== |
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| *[[Accessible tourism]] | | *[[Accessible tourism]] |
| *[[Adaptive recreation]] | | *[[Adaptive recreation]] |
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| *[[Developmental disability]] | | *[[Developmental disability]] |
| *[[Disability etiquette]] | | *[[Disability etiquette]] |
| *[[Disability Discrimination Act]]
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| *Disability rights movement
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| *[[Disabled robotics]]
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| * [[Disabled sports]] | | * [[Disabled sports]] |
| *[[Disability studies]]
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| *[[Ergonomy]] | | *[[Ergonomy]] |
| *[[Easter Seals]]
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| *[[Human variability]] | | *[[Human variability]] |
| *[[Inclusive development]]
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| *[[International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health]] | | *[[International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health]] |
| *[[Invisible disability]] | | *[[Invisible disability]] |
| *[[Learning disability]] | | *[[Learning disability]] |
| * [[List of disability rights organizations]]
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| *[[Orthopedics]] | | *[[Orthopedics]] |
| *[[Post Secondary Transition For High School Students with Disabilities]]
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| *[[Passing (disability)|Passing]] | | *[[Passing (disability)|Passing]] |
| * [[Special education]] | | *[[Special education]] |
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| ==Footnotes==
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| <div class="references-small"> {{reflist|2}} </div>
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| == References ==
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| * Frank Bowe, ''Handicapping America:Barriers to disabled people'', Harper & Row, 1978 ISBN 0-06-010422-8
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| * ''Encyclopedia of disability'', general ed. Gary L. Albrecht, Thousand Oaks, Calif. [u.a.] : SAGE Publ., 2005
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| * David Johnstone, ''An Introduction to Disability Studies'', 2001, 2nd edition, ISBN 1-85346-726-X
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| * Michael Oliver, ''The Politics of Disablement'', St. Martin's Press 1997, ISBN 0-333-43293-2
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| * Tom Shakespeare, ''Genetic Politics: from Eugenics to Genome'', with Anne Kerr , New Clarion Press, 1999, ISBN 1-873797-25-7
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| * Kaushik, R.,1999, " Access Denied: Can we overcome disabling attitudes ," Museum International (UNESCO) , Vol. 51, No. 3, p. 48-52.
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| * [http://www.disabilitynow.org.uk/ Disability Now]
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| * Glenn, Eddie. March 20, 1997. "African American Women with Disabilities: An Overview."
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| * [http://www.disabilities-online.com: Disabilities Online Database] | | * [http://www.disabilities-online.com: Disabilities Online Database] |
| * [http://www.disability247.co.uk: Disability 247: Information and resources for disabled people in the United Kingdom] | | * [http://www.disability247.co.uk: Disability 247: Information and resources for disabled people in the United Kingdom] |
| * [http://www.pdrater.com PDRater.com: Online Calculator for Worker's Compensation Benefits in California]
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| * [http://www.sadiesshack.com Sadie's Shack] – An online community for people with disabilities
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| *[http://www.disapedia.com Disapedia] – A Wiki for everything disability related
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| *[http://osha.europa.eu/good_practice/person/disability People with disabilities], [[EU-OSHA]]
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| *[http://hwi.osha.europa.eu/topic_integration_disabilities/ Integration and retention of people with disabilities], [[EU-OSHA]]
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| *[http://www.disabilityhelpsite.com/ Disability Help Site] – A disability resource site
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| *[http://www.disabilitynow.org.uk/ Disability Now] | | *[http://www.disabilitynow.org.uk/ Disability Now] |
| *[http://www.enableamerica.org/ Enable America - a disability resource site] | | *[http://www.enableamerica.org/ Enable America - a disability resource site] |
| *[http://www.dppi.org.uk/ Disability, Pregnancy & Parenthood International] | | *[http://www.dppi.org.uk/ Disability, Pregnancy & Parenthood International] |
| *[http://www.aapd-dc.org/index.php American Association of People with Disabilities]
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| *[http://www.disabilityhistory.org/ The Disability Social History Project] | | *[http://www.disabilityhistory.org/ The Disability Social History Project] |
| *[http://www.independentliving.org/ Independent Living Institute] | | *[http://www.independentliving.org/ Independent Living Institute] |
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| *[http://www.socialsecurity.gov/disability Social Security Administration page on disability] | | *[http://www.socialsecurity.gov/disability Social Security Administration page on disability] |
| *[http://www.stopguardianabuse.org/ National Association to Stop Guardian Abuse (NASGA) USA] | | *[http://www.stopguardianabuse.org/ National Association to Stop Guardian Abuse (NASGA) USA] |
| *[http://www.disability.gi/ Gibraltar Local Disability Movement (G.L.D.M.)]
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| *[http://www.disabledparents.net/ Parents with Disabilities Online]
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| *[http://www.disabilitysecrets.com Applying for disability]
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| *[http://lookingglass.org/index.php Through the Looking Glass] | | *[http://lookingglass.org/index.php Through the Looking Glass] |
| *[http://www.bipolar-lives.com/bipolar-disability.html Applying for Bipolar Disability]
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