Traditional Disabled Identity Flashcards
Disability discrimination act
Aim to end discrimination against people with disabilities by preventing discriminatory practice in errors, such as the workplace, education, transport and buying or renting properties
The medical model of disability
She’s disability as a medical problem, focusing on the limitations caused by the empowerment and this has long being the prevalent approach taken by society.
Shakespeare
Disabled people often socialising to seeing themselves as victims, victim mentality, example: there is a lack of positive role models in public life and media and body society often reacts to people disabilities, with pity, avoidance and awkwardness
Lee Ridley
The disability charity scope UK conducted the study that found that 2000 people felt awkward talking to a disabled person, 43% of people don’t know anyone who is disabled and just that some disabilities are most visible than others.
Disabled: Media
Gill - identity as a disabled person, but previously had nations about what being disabled means is a common hurdle, need to inform or learn helplessness, describing the way that some disabled people may Internet internalise that I did that they are incapable of changing a situation.
Murugami - disable person has ability to construct a self identity that accepts their impairment, see their disability as just one of their characteristics