Disability and Advocacy

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This class will go over the history of disability rights rhetoric in the advancement of disability civil rights in the United States. Topics will include (but not be limited to) the three models of disability discourse (moral, medical and social); strategies employed during the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA); the ways in which disability civil rights has been coopted by non-disabled folks; how some advocacy strategies created limitations in the enforcement of the ADA; and current discourse surrounding the improvement of disability civil rights in the United States.