Disability Movement Summary

The next theory shown throughout the film was Resource Mobilization. The disability movement was able to get resources for their movement, and one of their resources was political leaders. In the 1980’s, new leaders joined the fight for disability rights, and one of the leaders were Justin Dart Jr. Apparently, Dart Jr. did not face discrimination or segregation compared to the other individuals with disability, but Dart Jr. learned about the disability movement and what people wanted to achieve from the movement, since then he joined the movement to fight for disability rights. From then on, more political leaders throughout America joined the movement, as well as other individuals with different disabilities such as the deaf community. The President of the University of Gallaudet named Dr. I. King Jordan has also joined the movement representing the deaf community and also Lex

In this area, there are “options for collective action, with chances and risks attached to them, which depend on factors outside the mobilizing group” (Koopans 2004:65). For the disability movement, it wanted to have secured equal civil rights for all people with disabilities but it took them a long time for them to have their rights. What the movement has incorporated from the Political Process Model is that it went to the state’s capacity and propensity for repression. The theory is similar to resource mobilization but the disability movement had different organizations throughout the states and it provided members with disabilities that can be recruited as a group, along with respected leaders, communication networks and individual ties. Not only individuals who are handicapped joined, but also individuals who are blind, deaf, and other disabilities such as cerebral palsy joined the movement to receive equal rights. Overall, these groups collaborated leading to mutual interdependency and