Disability & the Law

During the 113th Congress, the Senate might consider providing its advice and consent to ratification of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Perso...

The Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program, enacted in 1974, is a needs-based program that provides cash benefits designed to ensure a minimum ...

This treatise is a detailed article-by-article examination of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Each...

Increasing numbers of people with autism and other developmental disabilities are being convicted of sex offences, resulting in draconian and publi...

This casebook examines the development of disability rights law and policy in the United States and abroad and can be used as either a law or gradu...

Studies show that up to 85 percent of youth in juvenile detention facilities have disabilities that make them eligible for special education servic...

In Working towards Equity, Dustin Galer argues that paid work significantly shaped the experience of disability during the late twentieth century. ...

The lives of youth with disabilities have changed radically in the past fifty years. Youth who are coming of age right now are the first generation...

The legal system is complex, and without appropriate access, many injustices can occur. Deaf people in the criminal justice system are routinely de...

In Twenty-Two Cents an Hour, Doug Crandell uncovers the harsh reality of people with disabilities in the United States who are forced to work in un...

The ultimate reference to the latest ADA and ABA Accessibility Guidelines for Buildings and Facilities Architects, interior designers, engineers, ...

For Americans with disabilities, no less than for all other citizens, the opportunity to earn a living and be self-supporting is a universally held...

This book brings together a number of important issues within the area of mental health and deafness. The book is aimed at mental health profession...

Title I of the Ticket to Work Program, administered by the Social Security Administration, is a program to enhance work incentives for Social Secur...

Community Care and the Law is the pre-eminent legal text on adult social care law. Its contributors are leading experts in the field and the lead a...

How do communities consent to difference? How do they recognize and create the space and time necessary for the differences and disabilities of tho...

Disability Law and Policy: An Analysis of the UN Convention undertakes a multidisciplinary examination of the United Nations Convention on the Righ...

This book introduces several programs and guidelines that would help to provide housing, employment, and other services to adults with psychiatric ...

Limited access to money is one of the most serious problems facing Americans with disabilities. The Federal Government spends large amounts on beha...

Youth with disabilities who are also in the foster care system are one of the most vulnerable populations in the United States, yet little attentio...

Nothing about us without us has been a core principle of American disability rights activists for more than half a century. It represents a respons...

This handbook serves as a practical guide for students handling Social Security cases in a live-client clinical course. It includes explanations of...

Through a close examination of employment, education, transportation, telecommunications, and health care, this survey explores the landscape of di...

This book is an overview of one of the most serious problems facing Americans with disabilities, according to a recent National Organization on Dis...

The European Yearbook of Disability Law is part of the ongoing research programme of the Maastricht Centre for Human Rights of Maastricht Universit...