Disability and Society, 17(4), June 2002, pp.471-478.
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
If society is to value all its disabled people, it needs to find ways of making this collective minority powerful enough to influence the future. Shaping the future is something the Disabled People's Movement has been preoccupied with for decades. The key is unlock some of the fundamental principles of the social model of disability. This model has the potential to transform disabled people's lives. It has become the disability movement's tool for social inclusion.
If society is to value all its disabled people, it needs to find ways of making this collective minority powerful enough to influence the future. Shaping the future is something the Disabled People's Movement has been preoccupied with for decades. The key is unlock some of the fundamental principles of the social model of disability. This model has the potential to transform disabled people's lives. It has become the disability movement's tool for social inclusion.
Subject terms:
human rights, life style, marriage, physical disabilities, policy formulation, politics, social model, sociology, stereotyped attitudes, treatment, therapy and treatment, anti-discriminatory practice, anti-oppressive practice, deinstitutionalisation, direct payments;