SOCWORK 1A06 Lecture 7: Soc Work 1A06 Lecture 7 Ableism
18 Mar 2016
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We talk about famous people with a disability as having something that they have overcome. Something that did not contribute to their whole person: we tend to think of disabilities as something that needs to be overcome, we tend to work from the assumption that ability is the norm. This ableist worldview holds that disability is an error, a mistake, or a failing rather than a simple consequence of human diversity. People can have learning disabilities that are not immediately visible. If glasses weren"t invented, a ton of us would have a disability The ableist worldview holds that disability is a mistake, error or failure rather than a consequence of human diversity: we don"t talk about it as different experience, we see one way as the norm. Federal court charter, donna argued that ppl with visual impairments were being discriminated against, bc the government didn"t have accessible websites.
