New thinking on disability requires a major shift in approach; persons with disabilities are not problems to be fixed or empty vessels waiting for their fill of charity. The social model of disability breaks free of such traditional framings. It sees barriers in participation for what they are – not limitations in the individual but in society’s limited vision. Such barriers are ubiquitous in the environment, laws, attitudes, communications, and information.
Read the full story... (off-site)- Topics:
- Ableism and disability models, Human Rights
- Author:
- Janet Lord
- Source:
- Human Rights Now
- Date published:
- Sat 3rd Dec, 2016