Böcker av Richard Scotch

"This book explores the tensions between the disability rights groups advocating on behalf of people with intellectual, cognitive, and psychiatric disorders including autism and allied advocacy groups representing parents with children in those communities. These groups diverge over issues like independence and recovery, and in their cultural and political capital"--

Describes how America's disabled mobilized to effect changes in public policy, not once but twice, and it suggests that the struggle is not yet over. This book surveys the effects and disappointments associated with the Americans with Disabilities Act, passed in 1990, in the context of the movement to secure full civil rights for disabled people.