Editing Disability (section)

==== Abuse ====
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Disability abuse happens when a person is abused physically, financially, verbally or mentally due to the person having a disability. As many disabilities are not visible (for example, asthma, learning disabilities) some abusers cannot rationalize the non-physical disability with a need for understanding, support, and so on.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Abuse in Disability Communities |url=https://www.thehotline.org/resources/abuse-in-disability-communities/ |access-date=February 21, 2024 |website=The Hotline |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{cite book |title=Transforming Disability into Ability |date=2003 |isbn=978-92-64-19887-6 |doi=10.1787/9789264158245-en}}</ref>

As the prevalence of disability and the cost of supporting disability increases with medical advancement and longevity in general, this aspect of society becomes of greater political importance. How political parties treat their disabled constituents may become a measure of a political party's understanding of disability, particularly in the social model of disability.<ref>{{cite news |last=Hough |first=Andrew |date=October 23, 2012 |title='Disability hate crimes' rise by a quarter in a year |newspaper=Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/9626664/Disability-hate-crimes-rise-by-a-quarter-in-a-year.html |url-status=live |url-access=subscription |access-date=January 29, 2013 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/9626664/Disability-hate-crimes-rise-by-a-quarter-in-a-year.html |archive-date=January 11, 2022}}{{cbignore}}</ref>