Old Attitudes, New Attitudes, and Disability Policy¹

Issue title: Spinal Cord Injury

Guest editors: Robert G. Frank

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Connally, Patrick | Roberts, Edward V. | Gold, Jonathan

Affiliations: World Institute on Disability, Oakland, CA

Note: [1] This article was written under a grant from the Center for Disease Control, subcontracted through the San Francisco Injury Prevention Research Center project, “From Injured People to Injury Policy.”

Abstract: A brief overview of disability policy is presented from the independent living/civil rights point of view. Segregation and pity have been two traditional approaches to disability policy and have had tragic results for persons with disabilities.

DOI: 10.3233/NRE-1991-1411

Journal: NeuroRehabilitation, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 74-80, 1991