For those who have never heard of the social model of disability it is best explained as the civil rights view of disablement. It separates impairment from disability and focuses on the responsibility ...
The social model of disability frames disability as something that is created by society, rather than only by medical conditions or physical differences. The model acknowledges that people have ...
Kerri Heng is passionate about qualitative research in disability and mental health. A recent graduate of the Master of Arts in Sociology programme at Nanyang Technological University, her Master's ...
Someone who is blind and has a cane? Whatever they look like, their impairment means life can be harder for them. The fact they don't have use of their legs or eyesight is the reason they might ...
We live in a world shaped by the stories we tell — about ourselves, about others, and about what it means to live a good life. But when society tells only one story about disability — that it is a ...
The book A Very Capitalist Condition provides an invaluable Marxist analysis of disability under the capitalist system, writes Keith Rosenthal. IF FOR no other reason, Roddy Slorach's A Very ...
What do you think of when you think of disability? Someone in a wheelchair? Someone who is blind and has a cane? Whatever they look like, their impairment means life can be harder for them. The fact ...