Social Work 1022A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Disability Rights Movement, Supportive Housing

• School: Western University
• Department: Social Work
• Course: Social Work 1022A/B
• Professor: Stewart J Smith

Document Summary

Approximately 4 million canadians: higher % of women, higher % of aboriginal population, higher % of older adults, higher rate of poverty. Outdoor relief came to be seen as a mechanism that created dependency. Asylums, poor houses, and houses of industry replaced the former methods of outdoor relief. Persons with disabilities were to be removed from society, isolated and placed in segregated institutions: post wwii: welfare state, 1960s and 1970s - disability rights movement (normalization) De-institutionalization (group homes, supported housing, parental care, independent living, assistant care: 1980s - move towards eliminating barriers to access, 1982- charter of rights and freedoms, 1990s - task force on disability issue. Medical model: disability as medical condition, tragedy, unfortunate life event, focus on limitations, in keeping with institutional approach. Social construction: the way we create meaning through social interaction with others, language - we attach meaning, internalize meaning - becomes our reality.