Lecture #4 Accessibility Flashcards
Space determines:
- Who belongs here
- When people belong
- Where people belong
- At what people belong
What kinds of explanations can we find for why people with impairments may lack access?
- infrastructure
- spacing between seatings (too tight)
- financial reasons
- use of space
- a beach (natural)
Ableism:
Favouring able-bodied people, and discrimination against the needs of disabled people.
What types of explanations given for lack of access that we need to challenge?
- Natural (beach or mountains)
- Reasonable (some will have access and some not)
- Justifiable (we simply cannot accomodate them)
According to Campbell, the definition of Ableism is:
a series/network of beliefs that sets a specific type of self and body as perfect and fully-human, while disability is viewed as a diminished state of being.
Ableism can be:
Intentional or Unintentional
Internalized Ableism:
Internalized belief that disability makes one inferior
Main theme in the reading “Cripple Punks”
Taking a derogatory used term back as a form of resistance
Access can be based on:
- Interaction of physical and social
- Social environment
- Physical space
Some barriers to Access and Exercise Participation:
- Built and Natural environment
- Economics, transportation
- Psychological reasons
- Equipment
- Policy
- Lack of information
- Staff knowledge
- Attitudes of self and others
- Resources
- Fear, safety
What was the purpose of the reading:
Understanding Dignity: Experiences of
Impairment in an Exercise Facility
To understand dignity and its importance to participation in exercise.
What was the method used in the reading:
Understanding Dignity: Experiences of
Impairment in an Exercise Facility
Interpretative phenomenology
How many participants in the study of the reading:
Understanding Dignity: Experiences of
Impairment in an Exercise Facility
21 adults who experience disability
How was the data collected in the study of the reading:
Understanding Dignity: Experiences of
Impairment in an Exercise Facility
Interviews (individual and focus group), Images, Field Notes
The thematic analysis of the study of the reading:
Understanding Dignity: Experiences of
Impairment in an Exercise Facility
Findings:
- Comfort of Feeling Welcome
- Lost Autonomy / lost independency
- Negotiating Public Spaces
- Perceptions of Otherness
Example/quote of “Comfort of Feeling Welcome” finding:
A lot of dignity to me is social…I can interact with people on an even playing field.
Example/quote of “Lost Autonomy / lost independency” finding:
Most of the loss of dignity comes from having to get help for things
Example/quote of “Negotiating Public Spaces” finding:
I feel pretty self-conscious about when my chair is in the way of people
Example/quote of “Perceptions of Otherness” finding:
Disability, don’t want to look at them; don’t want to make eye contact.
“Given what is, what ought to be?” Explain.
How do we make things more inclusive?
How is physical and social spaces defining disability?
What can we do about it?
“Why do we not use our imagination regarding who belongs?” Explain.
See disability as individual problem, not
interaction of person and social/physical
“How am I contributing to disablement?” Explain.
(unnecessary isolation and exclusion)
- Not seeing, not questioning, not supporting, not
acting…
- Not imagining
