Disability Advocacy

Autism is often diagnosed during childhood but can also be diagnosed well into adulthood. If you feel you have been misunderstood your whole life, take heart, you are not alone.

Millions of women have a painful fat condition called lipedema, in which the body accumulates abnormal adipose deposits in the legs, arms, buttocks, and hips. It is often misdiagnosed as obesity, causing the patient to go years without proper treatment, and possible disease progression. Advocacy for lipedema awareness can help provide early diagnosis and treatment, reduce misdiagnosis, improve access to important information regarding how to manage the condition, enhance treatment options, address stigma and body image issues, educate policymakers, and support research and funding.

Stress Relief, Networking, and Advocacy for the Puzzled Parent offers some great insight into the world of stress that comes with being a parent or caregiver to a child with autism. It also covers the stress that the child goes through. This book is extremely raw and real - diving head on into the hard pressed topics of communication, self-guilt, bullying, and parent-shaming.

You are more than your limits. Choosing to see herself as more than a person with a disability and wheelchair user, Lolo chooses to live a bold and courageous life now because representation matters. She created this intersectional guide to provide tools for people with disabilities to thrive in personal growth, independence, and community building. Add this guide to your list of inclusion books!

For more than 40 years, professionals in the field of disability studies have engaged in debates over the use of aversive interventions (such as electric shock) like the ones used at the Judge Rotenberg Center. This book is a historical case study of the Judge Rotenberg Center, named after the judge who ruled in favor of keeping its doors open to use aversive interventions.

The success of food allergy activism in highlighting the dangers of foodborne allergens shows how illness communities can effectively advocate for the needs of their members. In Food Allergy Advocacy, Danya Glabau follows parents and activists as they fight for allergen-free environments, accurate labeling, the fair application of disability law, and access to life-saving medications for food-allergic children in the United States.

Raúl Krauthausen ist der bekannteste Aktivist für Inklusion und Barrierefreiheit – und die lauteste Stimme in Deutschland, wenn es um die Durchsetzung der Rechte von Menschen mit Behinderung geht. "Betrachten Sie Behinderung einfach als eine Eigenschaft wie die Haarfarbe" ist eine seiner zentralen Botschaften, und er kämpft auf allen Plattformen – analog und digital – für Sichtbarkeit und gegen Diskriminierung.

Kamata's adventures with her teen—who happens to be deaf, with cerebral palsy, and in a wheelchair—through subterranean Tennessee, to the islands of Japan, and to the top of the Eiffel Tower ultimately lead to a daughter's increasing independence, a mother letting go of expectations, and advocacy for travel which prohibits discrimination.