"Wheelchair bound" and the "the poster child". FDR, the "cured cripple" --
League of the physically handicapped --
Parent-initiated childhood disability organizations --
The poster child and the telethon --
Changing views of disability in the United States --
Seeing by touch, hearing by sign. Blindness and deafness: a comparison --
Sign language and oralism --
Braille and talking books --
Mobility for blind people: guide dogs and white canes --
Jacobus tenBroek and the National Federation of the blind --
NYC Subway gates: a controversy in the blind community --
NFB: trailblazer for sections 504 and 501 --
NFB and ACB: different approaches to blindness --
American Sign Language --
The Gallaudet University uprising --
Education of deaf children --
Helen Keller, the social reformer --
Deinstitutionalization and independent living. Early accessibility efforts in the colleges --
Ed Roberts and the Independent Living Movement --
Proliferation of the independent living concept --
Independent living as an extension of rehabilitation --
Evaluation of the Independent Living Movement --
Independent living a nd the new disability activism --
Groundbreaking disability rights legislation: Section 504. The Cherry lawsuit for the Section 504 regulations --
Section 504 as a spur to political organizing --
ACCD, propelling Section 504 --
The Section 504 demonstrations --
The transbus controversy --
Accessible transit and New York City --
Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) --
California accessible buses --
Mainstreaming public transit --
The civil rights significance of accessible transportation.
Disabled in action. New York Lawyers for the Public Interest --
Recognizing disability as a civil rights issue --
Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund --
The need for disability rights attorneys --
The Americans with Disabilities Act. Enacting the ADA --
The ADA and Section 504 --
Title III: Public accommodation --
Title II: Public services (State and local government) --
Title II: Public transportation --
Title IV: National Telephone Relay Service --
Title V: Miscellaneous --
The Supreme Court and the ADA --
The myth of "the disability lobby" --
Every American's insurance policy --
Access to jobs and health care. Employment discrimination --
Disability employment in corporate America --
Employment of people with developmental disabilities --
Employment of people with psychiatric disabilities --
The criminalization of people with psychiatric disabilities --
Different approaches to psychiatric disabilities --
A two-tier health care system --
People with special needs in managed care --
An arbitrary patchwork --
Falling through the cracks: children with special health needs --
Long-term care in the community --
The nexus between jobs and health care --
"Not dead yet" and physician-assisted suicide. Opposition to "the death train" --
Focus on cure: a pernicious message --
The Eugenics Movement and euthanasia --
The politics of physician-assisted suicide --
Netherlands "slippery slope" vs. U.S. "political strategy" --
First-year report on physician-assisted suicide in Oregon --
Legalizing disability discrimination --
Dangers of an inflexible law --
The distinction between sever disability and terminal illness.
Disability and technology. Universal design --
Teletypewriters and relay systems --
Accessible classrooms and laboratories --
The computer as an accommodation --
The Internet and a miracle baby --
Medical and genetic information --
"Slash, burn, and poison" --
Transforming scientific orthodoxy: AIDS activism --
Toward a new vision: three queries --
Disabled veterans claim their rights. Legislation and self-advocacy --
Rehabilitation: the man, not the wound --
Paralyzed veterans of America --
Automobiles: opening "new vistas" --
Atomic and chemical guinea pigs --
Holding a nation accountable --
Education: integration in the least restrictive environment. A "quiet revolution" --
Enforcing the IDEA: early efforts --
An appropriate identity --
The IDEA in the courts --
The special education controversy --
A microcosm of the real world --
Identity and culture. Three strands of the movement --
Disability pride: celebrating difference --
Changing perceptions and the media --
Assessment of the movement --
Disability rights in the Twenty-first Century. Olmstead and the Community Choice Act --
Psychiatric survivors and consumers --
Physician-assisted suicide --
Media, technology, and disability culture --
Activists assess progress in securing disability rights --
Disability rights attorneys speak --
Perceptions of disability.