SOCI 3630 Lecture Notes - Ableism, Biomedical Model, Invisible Disability
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Parents with disability: defining and understanding disability. * there is no agreed upon way of defining disability. * common definition: restriction or lack of ability to perform an activity in a way considered. * some distinguish between visible and invisible disability only makes sense if you are not visually impaired. How society is not constructed to support disability, thus, disability is defined as the lack of support for disabled people. Environmental structures are not constructed to support abled bodies. * can be connected to chronic illness or not. * can range from parapalegia, absence of or broken limbs, medical conditions, etc. * biomedical model: the problem is with the individual; disability is an individual condition or pathology. * social model of disability: society and specifically the social environment is disabled, not people. * our ideas about disability and expectations of disabled persons are socially constructed. * social structures and external obstacles are disabling.