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From disability to ability: changing the phrasing of the debate
- Author:
- HARPUR Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 27(3), May 2012, pp.325-337.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
People with disabilities have often endured discrimination. While enlightened people recognise the role that society has in disabling people with impairments, there remains a struggle to remove the negative stigma associated with this form of social diversity. One strategy to assist in this struggle is the use of language. This paper focuses on how language can be utilised in the struggle against oppression. This paper reconsiders how disability discrimination is conceived and labelled. There is no uniformly accepted label to describe the discrimination and oppression that is explained by the social model or the non-radical social model. This paper explores how the labels of ‘disableism’ and ‘ableism’ have emerged to explain this concept. This paper analyses these terms and argues for the adoption of ableist nomenclature.