Editing Disability rights movement (section)

=== People with mental health issues ===
Advocates for the rights of people with [[mental disorder|mental health disabilities]] focus mainly on [[self-determination]], and an individual's ability to live independently.<ref name="Protests">{{cite book | first1 = Sharon N.|  last1= Barnartt |  first2 = Richard| last2 = Scotch | title = Disability Protests: Contentious Politics 1970-1999| url =https://archive.org/details/disabilityprotes0000barn |publisher = Gallaudet University Press| location = Washington, D.C.| year = 2001 | oclc  = 1325905290    | isbn = 978-1-56368-112-7}}</ref>

The right to have an [[Independent Living|independent life]], using paid assistant care instead of being [[institutionalisation|institutionalized]], if the individual wishes, is a major goal of the disability rights movement, and is the main goal of the similar independent living and [[self-advocacy]] movements, which are most strongly associated with people with [[intellectual disabilities]] and [[mental health]] disorders. These movements have supported people with disabilities to live as more active participants in society.<ref name="Mobilizing">{{cite book | last =Johnson | first = Roberta Ann | chapter= Mobilizing the Disabled |title = Waves of Protest: Social Movements Since the Sixties, pp.&nbsp;25–45|chapter-url = https://archive.org/details/wavesofprotestso0000unse/page/24/mode/2up?q=25 | editor = Jo Freeman & Victoria Johnson | publisher = Rowman and Littlefield | location = Lanham MD| year = 1999 | oclc = 40395836 | isbn = 978-0-8476-8748-0}}</ref>