"Abuse of a disabled person is a disability hate crime," according to a TfL statement, "or a disability hate incident if it does not constitute a crime.
The latter category includes hundreds, maybe thousands of retired employees of the Long Island Rail Road, who were the focus of a 2008 New York Times examination of abuse of the federal disability system.
The shadow home secretary, Yvette Cooper, will on Monday unveil a strategy to tackle the UK's soaring rise in antisemitism, Islamophobia, homophobia and abuse of people with disabilities.
"While the media attention on Yooralla is spurring action, countless past complaints to the Department of Human Services and the Department of Education have done nothing to stop the continuing abuse of people with disabilities – urgent action is needed across all service areas".
In February, the center, the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, and the Holyoke school district reached an agreement to address problems after the center's report found a "disturbing pattern of excessive physical restraint and psychological abuse of youngsters with disabilities".
The Long Island Rail Road will hire an independent examiner to review its safeguards against abuse of the railroad's disability pension system, under an agreement that all but concludes an 18-month state investigation of the extraordinarily high rate of claims by employees of the commuter line.
While we cannot make any definitive correlations between disability and domestic abuse, our findings add to existing literature which highlights the potentially compounding effect of disability and domestic abuse on women's access to good, equitable maternity care.
Often, there are more of those with disability than those who are normal without disability" (FGD Participant, LC) Strategies to address the abuse of women and girls with disability that were suggested by service providers focused on prevention of pregnancy, rather than prevention of abuse.
When considering the interplay between disability and domestic abuse, the challenge for researchers is in disentangling cause and effect; it is difficult to differentiate the independent or compounding effects of disability and domestic abuse when they are complexly intertwined.
Participants in the study reported that they sometimes lack awareness of how to deal with the combined issues of disability and domestic abuse among women in their care.
The extent to which maternity care practitioners are aware of the complexities arising from the combination of disability and domestic abuse remains unclear.
