America's Disability Policy: Another Double Standard?

Quinn, Peggy

doi:10.1177/088610999400900104

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“…ABD'de engellilikle ilgili olarak çok sayıda kanunun olmasına rağmen ADA, Amerikan toplumunda engelli bireylerin pozisyonu ile ilgili olarak dramatik değişikliğe işaret etmiştir ve diğer federal kanunlardan daha geniş bir kanundur (Rimmerman, 2013). ADA sayesinde çok sayıda engelli insan kendi toplumunun fırsatlarından haberdar olmuştur (Quinn, 1994). Bununla birlikte yürürlüğe girdiğinden itibaren destekçileri ve karşı çıkanları tarafından analize tutulup, eleştirilmiştir.…”

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Disability in the United States: Conceptual Development and Legal Framework

GÜLOĞLU¹,

SERDAR²

2023

TurkishStudies

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While disability has been expressed through different concepts in different societies throughout history, legal regulations have also changed from country to country from period to period. The arguments of the social model, which is based on the view that disability is not an individual but a social phenomenon related to full participation in society or not, has brought about focusing on the social rights of disabled individuals. This research, which tries to determine how the concept of disability is shaped in the United States, what changes it has undergone, and which legal regulations are shaped by the studies on disability, has been designed as a literature review. As a result of the study, it has been determined that while the concept of disability in the USA was initially handled with expressions emphasizing individual inadequacies such as disability, new loss, a conceptual transformation was made with the legal regulations and disability began to be used more in the sense emphasizing social barriers. As a legal regulation, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (year) and the American Disability Act were seen to be determinative in the USA. With these Laws, it was concluded that social inclusion was aimed by preventing exclusion and discrimination by trying to provide protection for the problems of disabled citizens regarding employment, public service, harmonization policies and other areas of social life. US disability policy, opposing disability discrimination, preventing discrimination, protecting civil rights; in practice, it has been shaped on the protection of persons with disabilities against discrimination and the exercise of their civil rights.

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