An agenda for citizens with disabilities: pursuing identity and empowerment

Issue title: Disability Empowerment

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Hahn, Harlan^;

Affiliations: University of Southern California, 717 11 Street, Santa Monica, CA 90402, USA

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Abstract: Future progress of the disability movement may depend on the development of a positive sense of identity for disabled persons that will permit them to gain a feeling of empowerment. This analysis explores several features of extensive experience with a disability that might provide the basis for such a formation.

Keywords: Disability, Identity, Empowerment

DOI: 10.3233/JVR-1997-9105

Journal: Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 31-37, 1997