Unit on Ableism - Campus Activism

Handout 2: VIOLENCE against people with disabilitiesUsing the chart below, make a chart on butcher paper of how people with the different kinds ofdisabilities listed in the word map might experience violence⎯restraints on movement;medication against their will; involuntary incarceration or segregation; physical emotional orsexual violence; neglect; “pulling the plug” and other forms. Think of and write up as manyanswers as you can in the time allowed.Disability Violence How this affects people withdisabilitiesPeople with physicaldisabilities, e.g.BlindDeafWheel chairedBirth defectsand othersPeople identified withmental/emotionaldisabilities, e.g.Learning disabled“Special ed”“Mental problems”and others<strong>Unit</strong> on Ableism15