This bibliography compiles sources used throughout DisabilityWiki. It is organized by topic and includes international frameworks, disability-led organizations, government resources, academic sources, and community materials.
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Primary Sources
United Nations. (2006). Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. New York: United Nations.
United Nations. (2006). Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. New York: United Nations.
Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. General Comments. Geneva: OHCHR.
Secondary Sources
Bantekas, I., Stein, M.A., & Anastasiou, D. (Eds.). (2018). The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities: A Commentary. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
de Beco, G. (Ed.). (2013). Article 33 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: National Structures for the Implementation and Monitoring of the Convention. Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff.
de Beco, G., Quinlivan, S., & Lord, J.E. (Eds.). (2019). The Right to Inclusive Education in International Human Rights Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
United Nations. (1948). Universal Declaration of Human Rights. New York: United Nations.
United Nations. (1993). Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities. Resolution 48/96. New York: United Nations.
World Health Organization. (2001). International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF). Geneva: WHO.
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, 42 U.S.C. § 12101 et seq.
ADA Amendments Act of 2008, Pub. L. 110-325.
U.S. Department of Justice. ADA Regulations.
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), 20 U.S.C. § 1400 et seq.
Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975, Pub. L. 94-142.
Longmore, P.K. (2003). Why I Burned My Book and Other Essays on Disability. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Longmore, P.K., & Umansky, L. (Eds.). (2001). The New Disability History: American Perspectives. New York: NYU Press.
Nielsen, K.E. (2012). A Disability History of the United States. Boston: Beacon Press.
Pelka, F. (2012). What We Have Done: An Oral History of the Disability Rights Movement. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.
Shapiro, J.P. (1993). No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement. New York: Times Books.
National Park Service. "Disability History: The Disability Rights Movement."
Disability Rights California. "Section 504 Sit-In."
Oliver, M. (1990). The Politics of Disablement. London: Macmillan.
Oliver, M. (1996). Understanding Disability: From Theory to Practice. London: Macmillan.
Shakespeare, T. (2006). Disability Rights and Wrongs. London: Routledge.
Shakespeare, T. (2014). Disability Rights and Wrongs Revisited (2nd ed.). London: Routledge.
Union of the Physically Impaired Against Segregation (UPIAS). (1976). Fundamental Principles of Disability. London: UPIAS.
Sins Invalid. (2019). Skin, Tooth, and Bone: The Basis of Movement is Our People (2nd ed.).
Berne, P., Morales, A.L., Langstaff, D., & Sins Invalid. (2018). "Ten Principles of Disability Justice." WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly, 46(1&2), 227-230.
Piepzna-Samarasinha, L.L. (2018). Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press.
Annamma, S.A., Connor, D., & Ferri, B. (2013). "Dis/ability critical race studies (DisCrit): Theorizing at the intersections of race and dis/ability." Race Ethnicity and Education, 16(1), 1-31.
Schalk, S. (2018). Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction. Durham: Duke University Press.
Washington Group on Disability Statistics.
World Health Organization. "Collection of Data on Disability."
United Nations Statistics Division. "Disability Statistics."
Annual Disability Statistics Compendium. Institute on Disability, University of New Hampshire.
U.S. Census Bureau. American Community Survey Disability Statistics.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Persons with a Disability: Labor Force Characteristics.
CBM Global. Disability Data Advocacy Toolkit.
American Foundation for the Blind. Resource Guide to Disability Statistics.
National Disability Authority (Ireland). Ethical Guidance for Research with People with Disabilities.
IASSIDD. Ethics Guidelines for International, Multi-Centre Research Involving People with Intellectual Disabilities.
Disability Innovation Institute, UNSW. Doing Research Inclusively: Guidelines for Co-Producing Research with People with Disability.
Rios, D., Magasi, S., Novak, C., & Harniss, M. (2016). "Conducting accessible research: Including people with disabilities in public health, epidemiological, and outcomes studies." American Journal of Public Health, 106(12), 2137-2144.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Belmont Report.
Nind, M. (2014). What is Inclusive Research? London: Bloomsbury.
Walmsley, J., & Johnson, K. (2003). Inclusive Research with People with Learning Disabilities: Past, Present and Futures. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1.
Section 508 Standards.
Center for Universal Design, North Carolina State University. The Principles of Universal Design.
CAST. Universal Design for Learning Guidelines.
Independent Living Institute. Tools for Power: A Resource Kit for Independent Living.
National Council on Independent Living. Advocacy and Lobbying in Centers for Independent Living.
Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund. Protesting While Disabled Pocket Guide.
Commons Library. Making Protest Accessible: Tips and Checklists for Actions.
Liberty (UK). How to Organise a More Accessible Protest.
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. ADA Resources.
Job Accommodation Network (JAN).
Disability:IN.
APSE (Association of People Supporting Employment First).
U.S. Department of Education. Office of Special Education Programs.
U.S. Department of Education. Office for Civil Rights.
AHEAD (Association on Higher Education and Disability).
National Center for Learning Disabilities.
Understood.
Social Security Administration. Disability Benefits.
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
ABLE National Resource Center.
American Association on Health and Disability.
National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI).
988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline (U.S.).
Crisis Text Line.
Disability Rights Organizations (by state).
Disability Visibility Project (Alice Wong).
Wong, A. (Ed.). (2020). Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century. New York: Vintage Books.
Society for Disability Studies.
Syracuse University Disability Studies.
University of Illinois Chicago. Department of Disability and Human Development.
CUNY School of Professional Studies. Disability Studies Programs.
ILRU Directory of Centers for Independent Living.
Disability Rights Digital Library.
Plain Language Action and Information Network.
WebAIM.
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This bibliography centers disabled people's expertise and prioritizes sources from disability-led organizations. Last updated: December 2025.