PSYC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Disability Studies, Social Forces, Swiffer
14 Feb 2018
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Disability theory is a new category of social analyse (disability, gender, race, age, ethnicity). At its core, disability studies is less about the actual disability, than it is about the social forces around us perceived disability. But, it also involves the very real physical manifestations of disability. Impairments and chronic illness often pose real difficulties but they are not the main problems. Disability stemmed from teachers interested in spec ed, the medical profession and policy makers. The medical model puts the disabled person in a position of reliance in the medical position to fix them. It ignores the lived experience of the disabled person. In ontario, we have funded and developed schools for the deaf and the blind. 1871 that we had compulsory school for healthy children. It was originally called ontario school for the deaf and dumb. In 1913 they changed the name of the school to just ontario school for the deaf.
