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Disability. Disability studies is an academic discipline that examines the meaning, nature, and consequences of disability. Initially, the field focused on the division between "impairment" and "disability", where impairment was an impairment of an individual's mind or body, while disability was considered a social construct. [1] This premise ...
Models of disability are analytic tools in disability studies used to articulate different ways disability is conceptualized by individuals and society broadly. [1] [2] Disability models are useful for understanding disagreements over disability policy, [2] teaching people about ableism, [3] providing disability-responsive health care, [3] and articulating the life experiences of disabled people.
Finkelstein was a tutor in disability studies at the Open University and later visiting senior research fellow in the Centre for Disability Studies Leeds University.Vic’s ideas influenced and inspired a generation of disabled activists and gave rise to the development of the Disabled People’s Movement through the formation of Centres for Independent Living, [5] Coalitions of Disabled ...
v. t. e. Michael James Hoiles Oliver[1] (3 February 1945 – 2 March 2019) [2] was a British sociologist, author, and disability rights activist. He was the first Professor of Disability Studies in the world, and key advocate of the social model of disability.
In the United States in the early 20th century, having a disabling condition was often a source of social stigma, and people with disabilities were excluded from many parts of U.S. society, including participation in the creation of popular culture via creative writing or reportage.
Bolt joined Liverpool Hope University in August 2009 as a lecturer in Disability Studies. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, founder of the International Network of Literary & Cultural Disability Scholars, and was the first Honorary Research Fellow in the Centre for Disability Research at Lancaster University.
Corbett O'Toole (born 1951) is a disability rights activist. [1] She had polio as a child. [2] She ran the Disabled Women's Coalition office with Lynn Witt in the 1970s. [2] She worked as a staff member at the Center for Independent Living in Berkeley from 1973 to 1976, and as a staff member for the Disability Rights and Education Fund (DREDF) from 1980 to 1983.
Disability. The Society for Disability Studies is an international academic network of disability studies practitioners. [1] It often abbreviates its name to SDS, though that abbreviation continues to be used by academics and political scientists to describe the Students for a Democratic Society organization in the United States.