Disability Rights Content Topic Results

This document highlights the prevalence of violence against women with disabilities, examines abuse interventions for women with disabilities, and offers a critique of studies on abuse and disability. Includes recommendations for research and practice.

This checklist is designed to help organizations identify accessibility problems and solutions in existing facilities in order to meet obligations under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The goal of the survey process is to plan how to make an existing facility more usable for people with disabilities.

The author provides a case study of her daughter’s sexual abuse as a child and subsequent experiences as a “chronically mentally ill” client in the mental health system. Information from 17 years of mental health records and anecdotal accounts are used to illustrate the effects of the abuse, her attempts to reach out for help, and the system’s failure to respond.

This brief article describes what the term "invisible disability" means and why it is important to understand invisible disabilities.

This one-pager offers tips for engaging in respectful interactions with individuals with disabilities.

Since 1968, AARP Foundation Tax-Aide has provided free tax help to over 78 million taxpayers, with a focus on older adults with low to moderate income. This webpage offers information on AARP Foundation Tax-Aide resources and how to access help.

This publication explains who is eligible for the credit for the elderly or the disabled, as well as how to figure the credit.

This fact sheet specifically addresses the impact of IDAs on SSI and SSDI.

Provides statistics on the prevalence of sexual violence and intimate partner violence among people with disabilities and highlights prevention strategies and support resources.

Be the change we wish to see in the world. That is just what the staff of the NRCDV had in mind when we launched the Access Initiative in 2006. The Initiative represented NRCDV's organizational commitment -- as an employer, service provider, and community member -- to individuals with disabilities and accessibility in general.

This fact sheet includes information about why people with traumatic brain injury are vulnerable to victimization and how to help those who are victimized.

This content hub features webinars, best practice guidance, and other materials produced by the Indiana Abuse Prevention Disability Task Force, all of which is freely available for public use.