Disability 9 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episodes
Victims and witnesses with disabilities, and how investigators and courts hear what they have to say.
- Season 3 · Episode 22
Competence
A pregnant woman with Down syndrome cannot say how it happened, and the search for her rapist runs into a guardianship fight over whether she can decide to keep the baby.
- Season 6 · Episode 9
Weak
A serial rapist preys on physically vulnerable women, and the detectives must rely on a witness with schizophrenia whose memories return as vivid, broken fragments.
- Season 8 · Episode 2
Clock
A 17-year-old who looks like a child disappears from a school trip, and Stabler finds she has run off with a 30-year-old man the law cannot touch.
- Season 9 · Episode 4
Savant
The only witness to a brutal attack is a girl with Williams syndrome, and her father, the obvious suspect, is protected by the FBI.
- Season 11 · Episode 17
Disabled
A former opera singer who can communicate only by blinking is raped in her home, and SVU must sort out which of the people with her house key attacked her.
- Season 24 · Episode 10
Jumped In
After surviving a gang attack, Benson takes her squad to the Bronx and reopens a closed serial rape case against deaf schoolgirls.
- Season 26 · Episode 12
Calculated
What looks like a minor case of a teenager with a classmate’s nude photo grows into a sting on dozens of predators, and Silva fears one of them is innocent.
- Season 26 · Episode 14
The Grid Plan
A Midwestern tourist raped near Times Square refuses to wait for the police, and her secret diagnosis becomes the defense’s weapon at trial.
- Season 27 · Episode 14
Frequency
A baby monitor intercepts a live feed of a caged, non-speaking boy, and the squad races to find him while Griffin tries to reach him.