LAW120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Rosalie Abella, Africville, Paradigm Shift
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A disadvantage that is created by the confluence of a person"s physical impairment with the political, social, economic, cultural environments that are organized around a non-disabled norm. The physical impairment and social environment that imposes limitations on certain groups or categories of people. Wheelchair users are disabled not by their physical impairment but rather by the refusal of society to mandate accessible building codes. Commonly referred to as the paradigm shift in disability literature. Went from physical disabilities of a person limiting their ability to interact with social, political, economic, and cultural environments to society imposing limitations to a group or category of people. Discuss the history of disability rights in canada pre-1970s vs. the 1970s and beyond. In your answer, you must refer to important political and legal developments (6 marks) Who is rosalie abella and what was her contribution to disability rights according to our guest speaker.
