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Disabled people are affected by what is termed disability abuse, and such activity has been cited as a hate crime.〔Quarmby, Katharine. "Scapegoat: Why we are failing disabled people". ''Portobello'', 2011.〕 The abuse is not limited to those who are visibly disabled such as wheelchair-users or physically deformed such as those with a cleft lip but also those with learning disabilities (actually a learning difficulty) such as dyslexia and dysgraphia, and other disabilities, including Asperger's syndrome, Down syndrome〔Sainsbury, Clare. "Martian in the Playground: Understanding the schoolchild with Asperger's syndrome". ''Paul Chapman Publishing'', 2000.〕〔Attwood, Tony. "The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome". ''Jessica Kingsley Publishers'', 2007, pp 95–111.〕 and developmental coordination disorder.〔Kirby, Amanda. "Dyspraxia: The Hidden Handicap". ''Souvenir Press'', 1999, pp106-113.〕〔Brookes, Geoff. "Dyspraxia". ''Continuum'', 2005, 2007 (second edition), pp 43–46.〕 In the latter case, this is linked to a poor ability in physical education, and this behaviour can be encouraged by the unthinking physical education teacher. Abuse of the disabled is not limited to schools. There are many known cases in which the disabled have been abused by staff of a care institution, such as the case revealed in a BBC ''Panorama'' programme on a Castlebeck care home (Winterbourne View) near Bristol which led to its closure and the suspension and sacking of some of the staff.〔 Consequences of the BBC undercover report〕 Those with learning disabilities are often not as able to explain things to other people so are more likely to be disbelieved or ignored if they do complain. There have been numerous cases of parents of children with disabilities who have murdered their children because of their disabilities. Sometimes the parents kill themselves alongside their child. Disabled girls and women are particularly vulnerable to abuse. ==Bullying== (詳細はInteractive Autism Network found that 63% of children with autism are bullied in the United States. Over a third of autistic adults said they had been bullied at work in a survey by the UK's National Autistic Society. 82% of children with learning disability in the UK are bullied, according to Mencap, and 79% are scared to go out in case they are bullied.〔 〕 Bullying is also a cause of disability and exacerbates existing disabilities. Bullying can take occur in a variety of forms. They aren't always physical. Verbal bullying and nonverbal bullying are the ones that occur very often. Catherine Thornberry and Karin Olson in “The Abuse of Individuals with Developmental Disabilities" argue how individuals with disabilities are dehumanized by people who are supposed to help assist them. Dehumanizing somebody means that you are taking away their abilities and qualities that make them a person and lowering them to the level of just an object or a thing. Catherine Thornberry and Karin Olson often found that the caregivers or assistants are the ones who are unintentionally bullying the disabled individuals. The caregivers look at the individuals at slower standard than they do other people, which is discrimination. Acts like these are what lead to the discrimination of disabled individuals to a hate crime.〔Thornberry, Catherine, and Karin Olson. “The Abuse of Individuals with Developmental Disabilities.” Developmental Disabilities Bulletin 33.1-2 (n.d.): 1-19. EBSCO Host. Web. 22 Apr. 2014.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Disability abuse」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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