Disability Rights

The Paralympic Movement: using sports to promote health, disability rights, and social integration for athletes with disabilities

June 11, 2013

Blauwet C, Willick SE. PM R. 2012 Nov;4(11):851-6. doi: 10.1016/j.pmrj.2012.08.015. SOURCE:  Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. Competitive sports for people with disabilities has grown rapidly over the past several decades, and opportunities for participation are increasingly available throughout the spectrum from developmental to elite.… Read More »»

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Opportunity for International Cooperation to Advance Disability Rights

June 1, 2011

The Global Disability Rights Library (GDRL) is inviting human rights, poverty reduction and humanitarian organizations to join a global effort to collect and disseminate disability-related information to those who lack digital access. Organizations need not have a primary focus on disability to participate. The goal of the GDRL project is to bring disability rights knowledge… Read More »»

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AAPL guideline for forensic evaluation of psychiatric disabilities: a disability law perspective.

January 1, 2008
BY: Weber MC. DePaul University, College of Law, 25 East Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, IL 60604-2287, USA. mweber@depaul.edu J Am Acad Psychiatry Law. 2008;36(4):558-62.

Contemporary disability law takes into account the insight that physical and mental conditions need not be disabling but for the environmental and attitudinal barriers that keep people with disabilities from social participation on a plane of equality with others. The need to use a wheelchair does not disable except for curbs and stairs, and many… Read More »»

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