When the 2022 Australian of the Year was announced, Dylan Alcott wheeled onto the stage. Australian audiences are tuning in to watch TV shows featuring people with disability: You Can’t Ask That, Love on the Spectrum and Employable Me.
The Disability Pride movement is gaining momentum and people with disability are becoming part of the diversity conversation.
On the surface, it would appear we have come a long way in our collective attitudes towards disability. But two of society’s biggest “-isms” still go largely unnoticed and unaddressed: ableism and disablism.
What do these terms mean? And how can we all do better to dismantle them?
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- Ableism and disability models
- Source:
- The Conversation
- Date published:
- Sun 15th May, 2022