Search Strategies for Disability Studies
Finding keywords for disability studies can be challenging:
- Critical theory may use its own critical vocabulary and jargon
- Some terms related to disability may be used as metaphors in other contexts
- Older work may use dated terminology
- Older work may not have been cataloged as disability studies at all
Some keywords to try
- abledness, ableism,ableist, able-bodied, able-bodiedness
- access, accessible, accessibility
- ageism, ageist, aging
- Deaf, deafness, deaf studies (some Deaf people consider themselves to be a linguistic/cultural minority, not disabled)
- dis/ability, disability, disabilities, "disability studies", "disability rights", disabled
- disease, dis-ease
- enable, enabling
- inclusion, inclusiveness, inclusivity
- normalcy, normals, normative
- universal design
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