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Flashcards in Disability Deck (6)
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Shakespeare

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Argues that disabled people are often socialised into seeing themselves as victims and people with impairments may develop a ‘victim mentality’ and use it as a reason for their failure

Other obstacles to forming a disabled identity
• lack of positive role models
• media and abled people react to disability with pity and awkwardness
• disabled people are often isolated from each other making it difficult to form a strong collective identity.

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Lee Ridley

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Comedian - suffers with cerebral palsy- wondered ‘does disability make you feel awkward?’

Scope U.K conducted a study and found that 2/3 of people felt awkward talking to a disabled person ( launched campaign to remedy this )

Survey also suggests
- 43% of people don’t know anyone who is disabled (statistically unlikely)
Less than 1/5 of people have disability from birth- he called the other 4/5 -not yet disabled

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Barnes

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Argues that the media and representations of disability have generally been negative
- people with disabilities are rarely presented as having their own identities
Media presents then as 
• victims
• villains 
• super cripples
• sexually abnormal
• a Burden
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Murugami

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Argues that a disabled person has the ability to construct a self identity that accepts their impairment but is independent of it (sees it as a characteristic)
- very few people are able bodied for life so society should view it as a human condition rather than an impairment

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The medical model

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(Link with Shakespeare)

  • sees disability as a medical problem caused by the impairment
  • leads to ‘victim blaming mentality’ - problem lies with the individual rather than society that has not be their needs
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The social model

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Focused on the social and physical barriers to inclusion that might exist
• design of buildings
•public space
• can be linked to workplace (despite laws preventing discrimination)
– can lead to view that disability is socially constructed (rested on assumptions of what is ‘normal’ or ‘abnormal’