Aids and equipment can be the tools which ensure an independent lifestyle for disabled people. They can make the difference between active participation in and exclusion from society. This book argues that suitable equipment is a key to disabled people achieving equality.
Aids and equipment can be the tools which ensure an independent lifestyle for disabled people. They can make the difference between active participation in and exclusion from society. This book argues that suitable equipment is a key to disabled people achieving equality.
Subject terms:
independence, life style, physical disabilities, social exclusion, social care provision, stereotyped attitudes, access to services, assistive technology, equal opportunities;
Aids and equipment can be the tools which ensure an independent lifestyle for disabled people. They can make the difference between active participation in and exclusion from society. This booklet argues that suitable equipment is a key to disabled people achieving equality.
Aids and equipment can be the tools which ensure an independent lifestyle for disabled people. They can make the difference between active participation in and exclusion from society. This booklet argues that suitable equipment is a key to disabled people achieving equality.
Subject terms:
independence, life style, physical disabilities, social exclusion, social care provision, stereotyped attitudes, access to services, equal opportunities;
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;