social model of disability

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social model of disability

Disability—defined by the UK Disability Discrimination Act 1995 as the loss or limitation of opportunities to participate in a community’s everyday life on an equal level with others due to physical and social barriers—which is due in part to psychosocial phenomena. Under the social model, many disabilities would respond to interventions that would address poverty, social exclusion and alienation.

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I am working to implement our blueprint for disabled people's issues and to seek the proper introduction of the social model of disability across all the council's services.

View from the cabinet: Handling 50,000 workers equally; The Post is putting Birmingham City Council cabinet members on the spot, asking them to name past achievements and look forward to 2003. Muhammad Afzal, cabinet member for equalities and human resources, has his say

Furthermore, the distinction between 'disability' and 'chronic illness' is necessarily challenged when analysis moves beyond a primary focus on materiality (the core of the social model of disability) to include an understanding of bodies as discursive, as well as material, sites constituted within particular geographies, cultures and historical moments.

Thinking about environment: incorporating geographies of disability into rehabilitation science

The social model of disability, which distinguishes between the physically based 'impairment' and the socially created 'disability', has provided both theorists and activists with an effective starting point from which to argue for increased access to social resources, the right to live independently and autonomously in mainstream communities, and the possibility for creating more positive identities.

Disability: a Life Course Approach

I have been asked a number of times recently to explain, once again, just what I mean when I refer to the social model of disability in my articles.

I can do that

(2000) 'Disabled people, health professionals and the social model of disability: Can there be a research relationship?', Disability and Society, 15(5), 781-793.

Can welfare reform make disability disappear?

We can only hope the government finally comes to its senses and use the Social Model of Disability as a guide, and give us the right to live our lives as independently as non-disabled people do.

THE DEBATE: We should have the right to live independently; YES Richard McLinden, Access Officer, Liverpool Association of Disabled People

Underlying Irvin's personal narrative is the concept of the social model of disability, which Irvin never names, but adeptly describes as: "it is not the disability itself that handicaps us," but the people that "do not see us as capable (p.

Cass Irvin, Home Bound: Growing Up with a Disability in America

An emphasis solely on a student's limitations without a corresponding emphasis on societal barriers is the type of discrimination that adherents of the social model of disability decry (Oliver, 1990).

Universal Instructional Design: a new framework for accommodating students in social work courses

* fail to adhere to a social model of disability and accommodate the individual circumstances of persons with disabilities.

Immigration applicants with disabilities must be assessed individually, court rules

The Social Model of Disability charter calls for organisations to accept that it is attitudes and the environment that disables people - not a person's impairment.

I can do That: Sefton's New Year resolution; Council boss pledges big improvemens for disabled people

In contrast, the minority or social model of disability attributes the concept of disability to the lack of environmental accommodation and negative societal reaction to individuals with disabilities.

Eugenics, euthanasia, and physician assisted suicide: an overview for rehabilitation professionals

(18) Paul Darke, The Cinematic Construction of Physical Disability as Identified Through the Application of the Social Model of Disability to Six Indicative Films Made since 1970, PhD thesis, University of Warwick, 1999.

'Don't talk about me ... like I'm not here: disability in Australian national cinema