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Effects of Victimization on People with Disabilities

In addition to experiencing similar reactions to trauma as individuals without disabilities, people with with disabilities face additional challenges. For each disability type, different dynamics of abuse come into play. For women with physical disabilities, limitations in physically escaping violence situations are in sharp contrast to women with hearing impairments, who may be able to escape but face communication barriers in most settings designed to help battered women. Certain commonalities exist across disability groups, such as:

• economic dependence,
• social isolation, and
• the whittling away of self-esteem of the basis of disability.

This information was taken from Abuse and Women with Disabilities a Brief by M.A. Nosek & C.A. Howland.

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