Traditional Disabled Identity

Question 1

Disability discrimination act

Answer 1

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

Question 2

The medical model of disability

Answer 2

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.

Question 3

Shakespeare

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Lee Ridley

Answer 4

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.

Question 5

Disabled: Media

Answer 5

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