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Jennifer J. Paul, Kristin Snoddon
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Sign language rights for deaf children bring a unique perspective to bear in the fields of both disability rights and language planning. This is due to the lack of recognition in existing case law of the right to language in and of itself. Deaf children ...
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Majid Turmusani
Pág. 192 - 197
This work offers a comprehensive analysis on the status of people with disabilities (PWD) under international law prior to the adoption of CRPD and outlines the legal protections found in the CRPD.
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Jennifer J. Paul, Kristin Snoddon
Pág. 1 - 27
Sign language rights for deaf children bring a unique perspective to bear in the fields of both disability rights and language planning. This is due to the lack of recognition in existing case law of the right to language in and of itself. Deaf children ...
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Dipesh Prema, Ruby Dhand
Pág. 121 - 141
The duty to accommodate is a fundamental legal concept embedded in Canadian human rights law. The concept itself makes a contribution to advancing the goals of human rights law by attempting to extend the right to equality by protecting people from discr...
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Meera Joseph, Sujen Saravanabavan, Jeff Nisker
Pág. 62 - 100
In Canada, 15% of women report having a disability, most frequently mobility-related. Research with women with disabilities has for decades brought attention to barriers to reproductive health promotion. Research with physicians regarding why these barri...
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Sue Hutton, Peter Park, Martin Levine, Shay Johnson, Kosha Bramesfeld
Pág. 30 - 59
This paper explores the oral histories of two survivors of Canada?s institutions for persons labelled with intellectual disability. Both of these men survived the abuses of the institutions and went on to become committed to rights advocacy for others la...
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Mario Levesque, Brynne Langford
Pág. 63 - 102
The neoliberal agenda has seen increased engagement of governments and disability organizations in policy making and implementation processes. Yet governments have been slow to address needed changes in disability policy over the last three decades quest...
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Alexandra Giancarlo, David Shannon, Audrey Kobayashi
Pág. 98 - 130
Incorporating a social and critical model of disability with an eye to the important intersections of race, gender, income, and disability, we use the existing literature both on disability and on chronic disease and health within the African Nova Scotia...
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Samantha Butler
Pág. 135 - 141
In their book, Exploring Disability Identity and Disability Rights through Narratives, Ravi Malhotra and Morgan Rowe show the importance of the in-depth narrative method in discerning the personal affects of oppression on the lives of disabled persons. T...
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Eugenio Di Stefano
Pág. 49 - 76
This essay explores the shift from a social model to social-constructivist model in the burgeoning field of disability studies within Latin American cultural studies. It does so by examining Latin American literature and culture beginning in the 198...
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Dustin Galer
Pág. 1 - 30
This article explores the emergence and evolution of sheltered employment in Canada during a period in which the discourse of disability and role of rehabilitation became increasingly contested. From the early 1970s to mid-1980s, sheltered workshops were...
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Randy Johner
Pág. 31 - 54
This ongoing project is about listening: listening to stories of impoverished disabled peoples' lived experiences of exclusion. The project embraces Emancipatory Disability Research (EDR) principles and is grounded in a human rights framework. The projec...
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Sue Hutton, Peter Park, Martin Levine, Shay Johnson, Kosha Bramesfeld
Pág. 30 - 59
This paper explores the oral histories of two survivors of Canada?s institutions for persons labelled with intellectual disability. Both of these men survived the abuses of the institutions and went on to become committed to rights advocacy for others la...
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Samantha Butler
Pág. 135 - 141
In their book, Exploring Disability Identity and Disability Rights through Narratives, Ravi Malhotra and Morgan Rowe show the importance of the in-depth narrative method in discerning the personal affects of oppression on the lives of disabled persons. T...
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Beth Haller, Marcia Rioux, Mihaela Dinca-Panaitescu, Andrew Laing, Jessica Vostermans, Paula Hearn
Pág. 43 - 74
This paper advocates for increased news media analysis within the disability studies field. Using a media research project about Canadian news media coverage of disability, this paper explores the shifting nature of recent disability coverage within Cana...
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Meera Joseph, Sujen Saravanabavan, Jeff Nisker
Pág. 62 - 100
In Canada, 15% of women report having a disability, most frequently mobility-related. Research with women with disabilities has for decades brought attention to barriers to reproductive health promotion. Research with physicians regarding why these barri...
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Eugenio Di Stefano
Pág. 49 - 76
This essay explores the shift from a social model to social-constructivist model in the burgeoning field of disability studies within Latin American cultural studies. It does so by examining Latin American literature and culture beginning in the 1980s an...
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Dustin Galer
Pág. 1 - 30
This article explores the emergence and evolution of sheltered employment in Canada during a period in which the discourse of disability and role of rehabilitation became increasingly contested. From the early 1970s to mid-1980s, sheltered workshops were...
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Mario Levesque, Brynne Langford
Pág. 63 - 102
The neoliberal agenda has seen increased engagement of governments and disability organizations in policy making and implementation processes. Yet governments have been slow to address needed changes in disability policy over the last three decades quest...
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Grace M. Lockhart
Pág. 135 - 138
Disability, Rights Monitoring, and Social Change is an innovative and informative anthology that examines attitudes toward disability as they relate to disability rights, and the monitoring of disability rights in order to create social change.
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