Disability

These documents explore the intersection between the disability movement and the movement to change the mental health system.

MFI Ashley Alert: Nine-year-old given injections to stunt growth by David W. Oaks — last modified 2007-01-13 22:45

MindFreedom joins other disability rights group in speaking out to oppose how nine-year-old Ashley, who has intellectual and physical disabilities, is being given drugs to minimize her height and weight.

The link between the "mad movement" and the cross-disability movement is crucial. by David W. Oaks — last modified 2009-01-19 02:22

The psychiatric survivor/mental health consumer movement -- also known as 'mad movement' -- accelerated in the early 1970's at about the same time as the general cross-disability movement that addresses concerns of all people who end up with some type of disability label.