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Making financial decisions based on agency or family needs.Using property or money as a reward or punishment in a behavior program.Economic Abuse: Using person’s property and money for staff’s benefit. Withdrawing care or equipment to immobilize the person.Refusing to use or destroying communication devices.Breaking or not fixing adaptive equipment.Ignoring equipment safety requirements.

Withhold, Misuse, or Delay Needed Supports: Using medication to sedate the person for agency convenience. Saying the person is not a “good reporter” of abuse.į.Excusing abuse as behavior management or caregiver stress.Justifying rules that limit autonomy, dignity, and relationships for program’s operational efficiency.Denying physical and emotional pain of people with disabilities.Minimize, Justify, & Blame: Denying or making light of abuse. Discouraging contact with the case manager or advocate.Į.Limiting employment possibilities because of caregiver schedule.Controlling access to phone, TV, news.Isolation: Controlling access to friends, family and neighbors.

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Ignoring, discouraging, or prohibiting the exercise of full capabilities.ĭ.

Giving an opinion as if it were the person’s opinion.

Providing care in a way to accentuate the person’s dependence and vulnerability.

Defining narrow, limiting roles and responsibilities.

Caregiver Privilege: Treating person as a child, servant. Intimidation: Raising a hand or using other looks, actions, gestures to create fear.

Pressuring the person to engage in fraud or other crimes.ī.

Using consequences and punishments to gain compliant behavior.

Coercion & Threat: Threatening to hurt the person, withhold basic support and rights, terminate relationship and leave the person unattended, report noncompliance with the program, use more intrusive equipment. It offers a way to think more broadly about abuse than physical or sexual abuse only.Ī. Based on a wheel developed in Duluth, Minnesota, by formerly battered women to describe their experiences, this wheel illustrates forms of abuse experienced by persons with developmental disabilities abused by their paid caregivers. The following wheel is adapted with permission from one developed by the Domestic Violence and Developmental Disabilities Committee of the Wisconsin Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Wisconsin Council on Developmental Disabilities.

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Serving Women with Developmental Disabilities: Strategies for the Justice System Marc Dubin Overview.

Making Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Services Accessible Sheryl Robinson Civjan Overview.

More Common Than We Think: Recognizing and Responding to Signs of Violence Leigh Ann Davis Overview.

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Breaking the Power of Discrimination / Sidebar: Emotional Abuse of Women with Disabilities Ellie J.

The Violence Against Women Act 2000: Strengthening Supports to Women with Disabilities (sidebar) Article.

Violence Against Women with Disabilities: Policy Implications of What We Don't Know Joye Whatley Overview.

Faces of Violence Against Women with Developmental Disabilities Dick Sobsey Overview.

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Feature Issue on Violence Against Women with Developmental or Other Disabilities | Fall 2000.

Power and control wheel