Disabilty
- Created by: Holly Greaves
- Created on: 26-04-10 12:50
Defining Disability
Best – disability is a person’s inability to do every day tasks e.g. washing yourself, and not being able to look after yourself
The Biomedical Definition
· Disability is a personal tragedy
· Disabled have to rely on the able-bodied
· Normalisation can only occur with round-the-clock care.
The Social Model
Oliver – Physical obstacles not as big as society’s. Disabled are deliberately excluded from society.
Best –Society generates discrimination and prejudice, problem not in physical disability.
Disabled by Society
Most of population are impaired e.g. have glasses but rarely classified as disabled
Physical facilities and attitudes should be adjusted and people are no longer ‘disabled’
Types of Disability
1. Impairment – abnormality or loss of function of a part of the body
2. Handicap – physical limits imposed by loss of function
3. Disability – socially imposed restriction on people’s abilities to perform…
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