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Introducing Developmental Disability Through a Disability Studies Perspective
Welcome! We hope our open educational resource will help you to explore and understand developmental disability from a different lens.
- Author
- Emily Brooks and Mariette Bates
- Publisher
- City University of New York
- Source
- LibreTexts
- License
- CC BY-NC-SA
- Language
- EN
- Category
- Basic Sciences
Contents· 15 sections
- 01: Disability is Complicated
- 1.01: Introduction
- 1.02: Legal Issues Legal Rights and Disability
- 02: Developmental Disability as a Social Construct
- 2.01: Introduction
- 2.02: Historical Perspectives on Developmental Disability
- 2.03: IQ as Eugenics
- 2.04: Modern-Day Eugenics
- 03: Self-Advocacy and Advocacy
- 3.01: The History of the Self-Advocacy Movement
- 3.02: Self-Advocacy and the Neurodiversity Movement
- 3.03: Evolving Language- Language and the Self-Advocacy Movement
- 3.04: Language and Developmental Disability
- 3.05: Putting the Social Model of Disability into Practice
- 3.06: Conclusion- Advocacy in the Future