Summary : Disabled people are carrying a spiritual life as an adventure of human freedom including all dimensions of existence: body, psyche, understanding ethics and religious dimension to live some of them. The spiritual live is the place of their history, their movement of existence as long as other humans -family, companions, caregivers, educators- can get close enough for them to reveal themselves. So maybe it really is the other, near that opens within the meaning of disability and spirituality becomes a call to an ethic of transfiguration (Mt 18, 1-9).
Jacquemin, D. (2013). La vie spirituelle des personnes handicapées. Une aventure de liberté sollicitée et soutenue par autrui. ET Studies, 4(1), 107-122. https://doi.org/10.2143/ETS.4.1.2988874 (Original work published 2013)