Rethinking systemic ableism: A response to Zagouras, Ellick, and Aulisio.

Introduction: This article is a response to Zagouras, Ellick, and Aulisio who presented a case study justifying the questioning of the capacity and autonomy of a young woman with a physical disability who was pregnant and facing coercive pressure to terminate.

Case Description: Julia is described as a 26-year-old woman with a neurological disability that requires her to receive assistance with activities of daily living. She was described as living with her parents who provided her with personal care assistance.

Advocacy: The seventh foundational principle and core competency of rehabilitation psychology.

Purpose/objective: Advocacy has received increasing attention in the field of psychology over the past few years, including in the subfield of rehabilitation psychology. Psychology has been criticized for over-focusing on individual responses to complex sociopolitical problems. Rehabilitation psychology has tended to do this in much the same way, by placing the onus on individual disabled persons' responses to disability and overlooking the systemic and structural concerns of the environment.

The evolution of disability language: Choosing terms to describe disability.

The use of disability language in academic scholarship has changed significantly over the past several years. Although it would be helpful to have concrete guidelines and rules that could generalize across situations regarding disability terminology, language itself is a phenomenon that evolves and varies over time in response to cultural shifts. People with disabilities have varied preferences about the language they use to describe themselves and what language they prefer to be used to describe them.

Experiences of Breastfeeding among Disabled Women.

Background: Although breastfeeding has been extensively studied, there remains a paucity of data about the breastfeeding experiences of disabled women. Despite indications of similar pregnancy rates, disabled women seem to breastfeed at lower rates. Emerging research on the intersection of breastfeeding and disability has begun to shed light on how aspects of disability may impact breastfeeding.

Adapting a health behavioral change and psychosocial toolkit to the context of physical disabilities: Lessons learned from disabled women with young children.

Background: Mothers with physical disabilities (MPDs) face the behavioral and psychosocial changes of the motherhood transition with fewer resources, additional barriers, and higher risks than nondisabled mothers. In this study we sought guidance from MPDs on adaptations needed to a health promotion toolkit for behavioral and psychosocial health that was originally developed for nondisabled, primarily low-income, women.

Objective: To identify general themes for adaptations that would increase the suitability of the toolkit for MPDs.

No body is expendable: Medical rationing and disability justice during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The health threat posed by the novel coronavirus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic has particular implications for people with disabilities, including vulnerability to exposure and complications, and concerns about the role of ableism in access to treatment and medical rationing decisions. Shortages of necessary medical equipment to treat COVID-19 have prompted triage guidelines outlining the ways in which lifesaving equipment, such as mechanical ventilators and intensive care unit beds, may need to be rationed among affected individuals. In this article, we explore the realities of medical rationing, and various approaches to triage and prioritization.

#SaytheWord: A disability culture commentary on the erasure of "disability".

Purpose: To inform the field of rehabilitation psychology about the sociocultural implications of the term "disability," and explain the rationale behind the #SaytheWord movement, a social media call to embrace disability identity.

Method: Review of the literature on disability terminology, the history of language use, and the relationship between attitudes toward disability and language. We reflect on the role of disability within the field of psychology and within the American Psychological Association (APA), including the underrepresentation of disabled psychologists and trainees with disabilities and the lack of mentorship opportunities available in the field.

Disability identity and allyship in rehabilitation psychology: Sit, stand, sign, and show up.

Purpose/objective: The purpose of this conceptual paper was to put forth a call for rehabilitation practitioners to consider their role in developing disability identity in their clients, and to understand this action as a form of allyship toward the disability community.

Method: This conceptual paper is organized to engage existing disability and disability-identity literature and its clinical implications. Practical tools and skills are offered for rehabilitation practitioners to develop disability identity and engage in disability allyship.

Person-first and identity-first language: Developing psychologists' cultural competence using disability language.

The American Psychological Association (APA) advocates the use of person-first language (e.g., people with disabilities) to refer to individuals with disabilities in daily discourse and to reduce bias in psychological writing.

How we treat our own: the experiences and characteristics of psychology trainees with disabilities.

Objective: To better understand the characteristics and experiences of psychologists and trainees with disabilities.

Method: An invitation to participate in a survey of psychologists and psychology trainees with disabilities was sent to professional listservs related to psychology and/or disability. Fifty-six trainees and psychologists with doctoral training in clinical, counseling, school, or rehabilitation psychology completed the survey.

Providing culturally competent supervision to trainees with disabilities in rehabilitation settings.

Objective: Very little is known about the supervision experiences of psychology trainees with disabilities in rehabilitation training settings. It is clear from the lack of literature, however, that a gap exists in training and education for supervisors about working with disabled trainees and providing culturally competent supervision. The purpose of this article is to explore legal and ethical concerns, cultural considerations of disability as an aspect of human diversity, attitudinal barriers, and mentorship during the professional journey of training future psychologists with disabilities.

Preferences for rehabilitation services among women with major limb amputations.

Purpose: We present five cases of adult females with major limb amputations, their concerns and preferences for services across the life span.

Design: A convenience sample of five veteran and nonveteran women aged 19-58 with major limb amputations participating in a regional VA Prosthetics Conference in 2010 took part in a panel interview.

Findings: The concerns identified by these women as high priorities included independence and participation in a full range of life activities, limitations in access, patient decision-making and body image concerns, and preferences for selected services.

Experiences of parents of children with congenital limb differences with health care providers: a qualitative study.

Unlabelled: This article describes a qualitative, participatory action research study based in grounded theory, in which an online survey was developed and utilized to explore and generate suggestions for further research about the needs and health care experiences of parents of children with congenital limb differences (CLD) during the first year of the child's life.

Participants: Fifty parents completed an online survey that was developed through review of themes in the literature and input from people with CLD and their families. Primarily with open-ended questions, the survey targeted the respondents' perceptions of the attitudes and approaches of health care providers.