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Disabled people's attitudes toward other impairment groups: a hierarchy of impairments
- Author:
- DEAL Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 18(7), December 2003, pp.897-910.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article seeks to explore, through the literature, the notion that a hierarchy of impairment exists from the perspectives of both disabled and non-disabled people. The literature suggests that disabled people, like non-disabled people, do not always wish to be associated with other impairment groups for a variety of complex reasons, including competing for scarce allocations of funding/resources, sexual attraction, stigma, etc. The article concludes that further research is required in relation to disabled people's attitudes toward other disabled people, in general, and other impairment groups. Such research would expand our knowledge with respect to the degree to which disabled people view themselves as a homogenous in-group, as a set of separate impairment groups, or viewing impairment as only one facet of identity. These findings would help the disability movement to achieve greater inclusiveness amongst different impairments.
Jargons for deafness as institutional constructions of the deaf body
- Author:
- ROSEN R. S.
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 18(7), December 2003, pp.921-934.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Jargons for deafness are seen here as social institutional constructions of the deaf body. Social institutions develop agendas commensurate with their view of the place of deaf people in society, create jargons to define its deaf clientele base and proffer programmes to construct them. This study examines current jargons developed by constellations of 'healing', 'helping' and 'agencist' social institutions developed in the USA since 1990 in light of their purposes and practices.