disability

Question 1

what do disabled people call themselves?

Answer 1

differently abled

Question 2

disability def

Answer 2

if you have a physical or mental impairment that has substantial and long term negative effects on your ability to do normal daily activities

Question 3

Scope

Answer 3

• previously known as the National spastic society
• disability charity

Question 4

Ridley - a commedian with cerebal palsey

Answer 4

the fact that being able bodied is not a lifetime guarantee is awkward

he also cited being overlooked for jobs (serious consequences for disability)

Question 5

physical impairment examples

Answer 5

• blind
• deaf
• cerebral palsey
• paralysed
• amputated

Question 6

mental impairment examples

Answer 6

• autism
• dyslexia
• epilepsy
• ADHD
• bipolar disorder

Question 7

What are the 2 approaches to understanding disability?

Answer 7

• the medical model
• the social model

Question 8

the medical model

Answer 8

• sees disability as a medical problem
• defining a person based on their disability
• leads to a ‘victim blaming mentality’

Question 9

Shakespeare - the medical model

Answer 9

• disabled people are socialised into seeing themselves as victims, which can affect their aspirations
• “the person with impaiment may have an investment in their own incapacity, because it can become the rationale of their own failure”

Question 10

social model

Answer 10

• focuses on the social and physical barriers to inclusions like building designs
• society is the disabling factor
• should be called ‘differently abled’

Question 11

Oliver - social model

Answer 11

argues that it is society which disables physically impaired people becuase the disabled are excluded from full participation in society by stereotypical attitudes held by able bodied people

Question 12

**Best ** - social model

Answer 12

‘society generate forms of discrimination and exclusion that disabled people have to cope with. The problem is found in the social constructions of redjudoce that surround disability and not in the bodies of disabled people.

Question 13

How could we critisize the social model?

Answer 13

remove barriers to full inclusion:
- front row disabled seets
- buiding regulations have changed
- disabled parking
- publicity
- equality act 2010

Question 14

famous disabled people

Answer 14

• Warrick Davis
• lee Riddley

Question 15

Murugami - negative identity

Answer 15

• disabled people have the ability to construct a self identity accepting their impairment
• self identity based on what they can do
• can be supported by featherstone and Hepworth