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The long and winding road: a history of disability and disabled people
- Editor:
- MILLINGTON P.
- Publisher:
- Disability West Midlands
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 34p.
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
The history plots landmark events and trends in the development of disability issues and the disabled people's movement, from ancient times when disabled people were viewed as objects of charity and pity to the emergence of the social model of disability and the disabled people's movement in the present day. The author has expanded the history to include a wider range of personal, medical and other historical landmarks. The emphasis has therefore changed from one that is exclusively related to the social theory of disability.
Disabled people, health professionals and the social model of disability: can there be a research relationship
- Author:
- BRICHER Gillian
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 15(5), August 2000, pp.781-793.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The social model of disability is proposed as an alternative to models that have viewed disability as an individual, rather than a socio-political issue. The use of this model to guide both research theory and practice is proposed in order to equalise research power relationships, and involve and empower disabled people. Health professionals have traditionally reinforced the medical model of disability in both research and practice, and this has been seen as contributing to the oppression and marginalisation of disabled people. Argues that if the social model is to achieve wider dissemination, it is important to develop a dialogue between disabled people and health professionals. Concludes that it is essential to look at ways in which disabled people and health professionals can work together to overcome the oppression and marginalisation that has been limited to the provision of health services.
Locating self-advocacy in models of disability: understanding disability in the support of self-advocates with learning difficulties
- Author:
- GOODLEY Dan
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 12(3), June 1997, pp.367-379.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Explores different understandings of disability and examines how these are or can be implicated in the self-advocacy movement. First, the effects of the dominant individual or personal tragedy model of disability on self-advocacy is examined with reference to the advisor's position. Secondly, self-advocacy framed in terms of the alternative social model of disability is presented. Finally, understanding self-advocacy in terms of the social model is taken further. It is suggested that self-advocates themselves directly challenge dominant understandings of disability in general and can contribute to the formulation of a social theory of disability.
Research and 'disability': accounts, biographies and policies
- Authors:
- FAWCETT Barbara, HEARN Jeff
- Journal article citation:
- Research Policy and Planning, 19(2), 2001, pp.27-44.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
This article reviews and re-evaluates a qualitative research project carried out in England in the late 1990s. The project was informed from its inception by the social model of disability, and explores how 'disability' is conceptualised within the accounts of participants defined by others as disabled. It also examines participants' views of community care services. As part of this discussion, notions of collaborative and emancipatory research are appraised. The implications of the findings for policy and practice in the field of social work and social care are discussed.
Contesting practices, challenging codes: self advocacy, disability politics and the social model
- Author:
- DOWSE Leanne
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 16(1), January 2001, pp.123-141.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This paper examines the relationship between Self Advocacy and the disability movement in Britain in the light of social movement theory. Using the concept of 'collective identity' as it is explored in social movement theory, the analysis examines why the disability movement's promotion of a strong disabled identity may be difficult to achieve for all its constituents, particularly people with learning difficulties. Additionally the concept of symbolic production within social movement theory is used to explore how the movement uses the social model of disability as its 'collective action frame'. It is argued realignment of this frame is taking place within the movement and is reflected in debates within disability studies about the role of impairment. The voices of people with learning difficulties remain silent in this debate. The paper concludes by arguing for the recognition of social, psychological and cognitive difference as pre-requisite to an inclusive theory and politics of disability.
Oppression within the counselling room
- Author:
- REEVE Donna
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 15(4), June 2000, pp.669-682.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Suggests that the oppression experienced by disabled people in society is sometimes replayed in the counselling room by counsellors who are unaware of their own disablist attitudes and prejudices. Argues that whilst the provision of Disability Equality Training (DET) within counselling courses would ameliorate the problem, disabled people would be most empowered by a counselling approach which recognises the potential for oppression within the counsellor-client relationship. Puts forward disability counselling, which includes the social model of disability as one of the foundations. An alternative solution may be found within the emerging counselling approaches that threat counselling as a social and political process and place emphasis on developing comprehensive anti-discriminatory practice.
Knowledge, power and the Disability Discrimination Bill
- Author:
- CHADWICK Alden
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 11(1), March 1996, pp.25-40.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article compares the social model of disability with the individual model upon which the Government's Disability Discrimination Bill is based. It use Foucault's concepts of Power/Knowledge and Governance, to develop an analysis which illustrates how both models of disability can impact on the identities of disabled people and local government practices. It suggests that, in order to assist disabled people to 'fashion a purpose', those disabled people and their allies working in local government need to operationalise the social model.