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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Demographics of Disability | |
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| Understanding Disability Policy | |
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| A Word about Language | |
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| Disabled Policymaking/Disabled Policy | |
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| The Paradigm Shift | |
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| Overview of the Policymaking Process | |
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| Key Stakeholders | |
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| History of Segregation and Stereotypes | |
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| "The Problem of Feeblemindedness" | |
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| Assistance and Treatment | |
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| The Stereotypes Continue | |
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| Compensation and Rehabilitation | |
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| Historical Basis of Compensation | |
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| Industrial-Related Disabilities | |
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| Social Security | |
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| The Disability Insurance Crisis | |
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| Vocational Education | |
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| 1973 Rehabilitation Act | |
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| Education for Disabled Children | |
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| Disability as a Business/Rehabilitation as an Industry | |
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| Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999 | |
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| Social and Political Activism | |
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| Disability Rights as a Social Movement | |
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| Disability Interest Groups | |
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| Berkeley and the Independent Living Movement | |
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| "The Splintered Universe" | |
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| Coalition Building and Cross-Disability Activism | |
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| Demonstrations and Protests | |
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| Litigation | |
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| The ADA and the Vision of Equality | |
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| Developing a National Policy: Early Initiatives | |
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| Opening the Policy Window | |
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| Policy Environment | |
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| Legislative Building Blocks | |
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| United We Stand | |
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| Friends in High Places | |
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| Legislative Process | |
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| Stealth Campaign | |
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| Opposition Forces | |
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| The ADA as Policy | |
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| Provisions of the Law | |
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| Implementation and Rulemaking | |
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| Enforcement | |
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| Litigation | |
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| Key Litigation Issues | |
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| Fusion of Positive and Negative Rights | |
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| Life beyond the ADA: Policy Hot Buttons | |
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| Reproductive Rights and Technology | |
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| Not Dead Yet | |
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| Jerry's Kids and Telethons | |
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| Christopher Reeve and the Myth of the Supercrip | |
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| Deaf Culture and Cochlear Implants | |
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| The Integration Mandate | |
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| Violence against People with Disabilities | |
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| Invisible Disabilities | |
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| Status Report on Equality | |
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| Attitudes and Public Opinion | |
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| Employment | |
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| Social Integration | |
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| Barriers to Independence | |
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| Transportation | |
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| Health Care | |
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| Housing | |
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| Overall Analysis | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Appendices | |
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| Suggestions for Further Research | |
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| Selected Disability Periodicals and Media | |
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| Annotated Guide to Nongovernmental Disability Organizations | |
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| Chronology of Important Events in the History and Development of American Disability Policy | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |