Disability Issues Flashcards
What is ‘eugenics’?
‘science’ of ‘improving’ the population through controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of ‘desirable’ characteristics.
Led to institutionalisation and sterilisation of disabled people
Where is this statement taken from: “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.”
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
What is the Medical Model of disability?
- Disability is caused by mental and or physical impairment
- Focus on curing and getting rid of impairments
- Disabled people need to be changed improved and made more ‘normal’
- The individual is impaired/individual has a problem
What is the Social Model of disability?
- Impairments often pose real difficulties for disabled people
- It is the barriers which exist in society that create the main problems
- The barriers are the problem and not the individual
True or false: The Disability Discrimination Act (1995) is about treating everyone the same
False
It is based on the idea that equality means recognising that people have different needs
The Disability Discrimination Act (1995) made it unlawful to discriminate. What are the two ways of discriminating?
- To treat a disabled person less favourably
2. To fail to make reasonable adjustments
Which legislative bill had at it’s heart a duty on all public bodies, including HEIs, to promote equality of opportunity for disabled people.
Disability Discrimination Act (2005)
Which legislative bill extends the equality duty to require the public sector to take into account the needs of all protected groups (except marital and civil partnership status)?
The Equality Act (2010)
Which legislative bill protects people from discrimination in the recruitment process by making it unlawful for employers to ask job applicants questions about disability or health before making a job offer?
The Equality Act (2010)
Which legislative bill protects carers from discrimination?
The Equality Act (2010)
What characteristics are protected under the The Equality Act (2010)?
Age
Disability
Gender reassignment
Marriage and civil partnership
Pregnancy and maternity
Race
Religion and belief
Sex
Sexual orientation
__?__ is when an unjustifiable provision, criterion or practice is applied to everyone. but it places people with a protected characteristic at a particular disadvantage.
Indirect discrimination
__?__ is where a person treats another less favourably because of a protected characteristic than they treat, or would treat, others.
Direct discrimination
__?__ is where a person treats another less favourably because of their association with someone with a particular protected characteristic (e.g. a parent or partner)
Direct discrimination
True or false: Direct discrimination also includes the situation where a person treats another less favourable because they mistakenly believe them to have a protected characteristic (e.g. mistakenly thought to be gay or disabled)
True
