Editing Disability (section)

===== Socio-economic background =====
Similar to the intersections of race and disability or gender and disability, a person's socio-economic background will also change their experience of disability. A disabled person with a low socio-economic status will experience the world differently, with more obstacles and fewer opportunities, than a disabled person with a high socio-economic status.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ong-Dean |first=Colin |title=Distinguishing Disability |date=2009 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |doi=10.7208/chicago/9780226630021.001.0001 |isbn=978-0-226-63001-4}}</ref><ref name="Lustig 2007 194–202">{{cite journal |last1=Lustig |first1=Daniel C. |last2=Strauser |first2=David R. |title=Causal Relationships Between Poverty and Disability |journal=Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin |date=July 2007 |volume=50 |issue=4 |pages=194–202 |doi=10.1177/00343552070500040101 |s2cid=144496704 }}</ref>

A good example of the [[Socioeconomic status and mental health|intersection]] between disability and [[Socioeconomic status|socio-economic status]] is access to education, as we know that there are direct links between poverty and disability - <ref name="Lustig 2007 194–202" /><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Neufeldt |first=Aldred H. |date=1995 |title=Empirical Dimensions of Discrimination against Disabled People |journal=Health and Human Rights |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=174–189 |doi=10.2307/4065213 |jstor=4065213 |pmid=10395720 |issn=1079-0969}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Grech |first1=Shaun |title=Poverty and disability |journal=Disability & Society |date=December 2011 |volume=26 |issue=7 |pages=888–891 |doi=10.1080/09687599.2011.618747 |s2cid=144977018 }}</ref> often working in a vicious cycle.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Jenkins |first=Richard |date=1991 |title=Disability and Social Stratification |journal=The British Journal of Sociology |volume=42 |issue=4 |pages=557–580 |doi=10.2307/591447 |jstor=591447 |pmid=1838293}}</ref> The costs of special education and caring for a disabled child are higher than for a child with no acknowledged disability, which poses an immense barrier in accessing appropriate education.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Lukemeyer |first1=Anna |last2=Meyers |first2=Marcia K. |last3=Smeeding |first3=Timothy |date=2000 |title=Expensive Children in Poor Families: Out-of-Pocket Expenditures for the Care of Disabled and Chronically Ill Children in Welfare Families |journal=Journal of Marriage and Family |volume=62 |issue=2 |pages=399–415 |doi=10.1111/j.1741-3737.2000.00399.x |issn=0022-2445}}</ref> The inaccessibility of appropriate education (at any stage), can lead to difficulties in finding employment, which often results in the vicious cycle of being 'bound' by one's experience as a poor and disabled person to remain in the same social structure and experience socio-economic exclusion.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Barnes |first1=Colin |last2=Sheldon |first2=Alison |title=Disability, politics and poverty in a majority world context |journal=Disability & Society |date=December 2010 |volume=25 |issue=7 |pages=771–782 |doi=10.1080/09687599.2010.520889 |s2cid=144808946 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Soldatic |first1=Karen |last2=Pini |first2=Barbara |title=The three Ds of welfare reform: disability, disgust and deservingness |journal=Australian Journal of Human Rights |date=November 2009 |volume=15 |issue=1 |pages=77–95 |doi=10.1080/1323238X.2009.11910862 |s2cid=148904296 }}</ref> In short, this vicious cycle exacerbates the lack of [[Economic capital|economic]], [[Social capital|social]], and [[cultural capital]] for disabled people with a low socio-economic background. On the other hand, a disabled person of a high socio-economic status, may have an easier time accessing appropriate (special) education or treatment - for example by having access to better aids, resources, or programmes that can help them succeed.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Auerbach |first1=Susan |title='Why Do They Give the Good Classes to Some and Not to Others?' Latino Parent Narratives of Struggle in a College Access Program |journal=Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education |date=October 2002 |volume=104 |issue=7 |pages=1369–1392 |doi=10.1111/1467-9620.00207 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Perna |first1=Laura W |last2=Titus |first2=Marvin A |title=The Relationship between Parental Involvement as Social Capital and College Enrollment: An Examination of Racial/Ethnic Group Differences |journal=The Journal of Higher Education |date=2005 |volume=76 |issue=5 |pages=485–518 |id={{Project MUSE|185966}} |doi=10.1353/jhe.2005.0036 |s2cid=32290790 }}</ref>