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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Abbreviations and Terms List | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Definitions of Disability | |
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| Defining Disability | |
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| Does Anyone Know What "Normal" Is? | |
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| The Link Between the Academic Discipline of Statistics and Eugenics | |
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| Categorizing Disabilities | |
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| Physical Disabilities | |
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| Intellectual Disabilities | |
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| Cognitive Disabilities | |
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| Psychiatric Disabilities | |
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| Does Everyone Have a Disability of Some Sort? | |
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| There Are More Disabilities Than Ever Before | |
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| Models of Disability: The Medical Model, The Environmental Model, and The Functional Model | |
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| What Are Models of Disability? | |
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| Models of Disability, American Legislation, and Agencies That Serve Persons with Disabilities | |
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| Dichotomy or Continuum? | |
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| Additional Categories of Disabilities | |
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| The Americans with Disabilities Act: Equal Opportunity Under the Law | |
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| The ADA Definition of Disability | |
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| Results of the ADA | |
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| Talking about Disability | |
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| Labels That Attempt To Describe All Those Different from the Majority | |
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| Society and Disability | |
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| Sources of Prejudice and Discrimination, Part 1 | |
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| Societal Prejudices Often Become Self-Identifiers | |
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| Prejudice against People with Disabilities Today in the United States | |
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| The Outcomes of the ADA | |
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| The Economic Threat | |
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| The Safety Threat | |
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| The Ambiguity of Disability | |
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| The Salience of the Perceived Defining Nature of the Disability | |
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| Spread or Overgeneralization | |
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| Sources of Prejudice and Discrimination, Part 2 | |
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| Moral Accountability for the Cause of Disability | |
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| Moral Accountability for the Management of the Disability | |
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| The Inferred Emotional Consequence of the Disability, or Difficult Does Not Mean Tragic | |
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| Society's Emphasis on Health, Fitness, and Beauty | |
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| Fear of Acquiring a Disability or Existential Angst, or "There But for the Grace of God Go I" | |
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| Three Societal Responses to Disability | |
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| Civil Rights for PWDs | |
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| What is Justice? | |
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| The Effects of Prejudice and Discrimination | |
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| Are Disabilities Viewed as Difference or as Deviance? | |
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| Are PWDs "Differently Challenged"? | |
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| Do Disabilities Always Lead to Social Inferiority? | |
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| Handicapism | |
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| The Handicapism of Well-Intentioned People | |
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| The Contact Theory | |
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| Equal Social Status Contact | |
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| Perceptions of the Disability That May Be Associated with Prejudice | |
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| The Degree of Visibility of the Disability | |
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| Other Factors That Influence the Perception of PWDs | |
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| "Disabled Heroes" or "Super Crips" | |
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| The Drawbacks To Having Disabled Heroes | |
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| Aesthetic Qualities of the Disability | |
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| Impression Management | |
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| Simulation Exercises | |
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| Experiencing Prejudice and Discrimination | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Stereotyping | |
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| Role Entrapment | |
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| Lowered Expectations, or "Let's Give Those Poor Disabled People a Break" | |
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| Lack of Privacy | |
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| Hypervisibility and Overobservation | |
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| Solo Status | |
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| Token Status | |
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| Paternalism | |
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| Infantilization | |
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| Viewing PWDs as Objects | |
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| Viewing PWDs as Animals | |
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| Unnecessary Dependence | |
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| Equal Social Status Relationships | |
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| Second-Class Citizenship (For Which Americans Must Assume Collective Responsibility) | |
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| The Individual and Disability | |
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| The Individual's Response to Disability | |
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| View from the Outside Versus Life on the Inside | |
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| Acceptance of Disability or Response to Disability | |
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| What Is a "Good" Response to a Disability? | |
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| Cognitive Restructuring | |
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| What Is a Poor Response to a Disability? | |
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| Secondary Gains, Malingering, and Psychogenic Pain Disorder | |
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| Problems in Measuring an Individual's Response to a Disability | |
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| The Stage Model of Adaptation to Disability | |
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| The Stages of Response in Disability | |
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| Advantages of the Stage Theory | |
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| Cautions in Implementing the Stage Theory | |
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| First-Person Narratives of People with Disabilities | |
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| Acceptance of Disability Scale | |
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| The Onset and Diagnosis of the Disability | |
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| Factors That Affect the Impact of the Onset of Disability | |
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| Time of Onset | |
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| Parents of Children with Congenital Disabilities | |
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| Atypical Childhood Experiences | |
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| Hearing Children of Parents Who Are Deaf | |
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| Prelingual Deafness | |
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| Congenital Blindness or Blindness Acquired in Infancy | |
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| Residential Schools | |
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| Acquired Disabilities | |
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| The Developmental Stage of Acquisition | |
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| Type of Onset | |
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| The Impact of a Long Prediagnosis Period | |
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| Other Factors of the Disability | |
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| The Course of the Disability | |
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| The Phases or Stages of the Course of the Disability | |
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| Degenerating Episodic Disabilities | |
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| Communication Difficulties | |
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| The Meaning of the Loss of Functioning | |
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| Severity of the Disability | |
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| Quality of Life | |
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| Pain and Trauma of the Disability | |
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| Chronic Pain | |
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| Psychogenic Pain Disorder | |
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| More About Pain | |
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| The Degree of Stigma Directed toward the Disability | |
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| The Degree of Visibility of the Disability | |
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| Degree of Disfigurement of the Disability | |
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| Body Image | |
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| Disfigurements as Social Handicaps | |
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| The Treatment of Individuals with Disfiguring Disabilities | |
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| Treatment | |
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| The Perspective of the Client/Consumer | |
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| What Do PWDs Want from Professional Care Providers? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| List of Sources | |
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| Index | |