not disabled people who need examining

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Hi,

I have stumbled some interestin text, and unfortunately I can not disclose the source, but here is the quote;

"it is not disabled people who need examining but able-bodied society; it is not a case of educating disabled and able-bodied people for integration, but of fighting institutional disablism; it is not disability relations which should be the field for study but disablism."

This could easily relate to Audism, and d/Deaf people.

What do you think?
 
I couldn't agree with you more, grummer.Deafness does not create a disability, it simply creates a linguistic and cultural difference. It is hearing society's reaction to and treatment of the deaf individual that creates the disability.
 
So, Jill, dont you agree that Deaf politics should consider to join the Disability Politics?
like Deaf Culture is not enough, while I said that I'd suppose you're sense the overtones of Deafhood, but not this is not what I'm getting at. I mean actually reconsidering the whole aspect of our struggle against the Hearingist society in order to assert our rights, At the same time to confront the slicky deception which 'supposed' to inclusive or 'active' type of research. For example, "Partnership in Action" type of research is to be treated with caution, even suspicion. (I wont go to length on this, it is WELL beyond the scope of this mere posting into a forum...)
or does anyone else ?
perhaps is there anyone who disagree and tell me why
 
And just what is this "Disability Politics" of which you speak?
 
Tousi said:
And just what is this "Disability Politics" of which you speak?
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The politics of accommodation for disability as a general term.....physical, mental, emotional, psychological, cognitive, visual, and auditory.
 
jillio said:
The politics of accommodation for disability as a general term.....physical, mental, emotional, psychological, cognitive, visual, and auditory.
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Oh, I see, thanks. I guess that would rest at the feet of the national watchdog, the NAD and maybe they are making those kind of inroads as we speak....
 
Tousi,
Disability politics has been around for a long time, they followed examples set by the civil rights and women’s liberation movements of the 1960s and 1970s disabled people began to speak out for themselves and organize to assert more control over and in their lives throughout the Western world.

To throw more light into the very nexus of disability movement, as quoted :
"Increasingly demanding acceptance from society as we are, not as society thinks we should be. It is society that has to changenot individuals and this change will come about as part of a process of political empowerment of disabled people as a group and not enough social policies and programmers delivered by establishment, politicians and policy makers nor through individualised treatments and interventios provided by the medical and para-medical professions. This is the core of the social model and its message should not be mystified by conceptual misunderstandings about the meanings of terms like illness and disability." (Oliver, M. 1993:37)

It makes a ALOT of sense to learn from disabled people, especially the activists and scholars. Deaf politics has many in common, but the focus on language politics is not enough.
 
Tousi said:
Oh, I see, thanks. I guess that would rest at the feet of the national watchdog, the NAD and maybe they are making those kind of inroads as we speak....
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NAD is actively engaged in advocacy issues, as well as legal issues.
 
I bet you used google or similar on the large copy/paste ha ha

Good observation, it is Michael Oliver. But no this not where I got it from, I got it from other source.
 
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