Society, Politics & Law
The Social and Discursive Construction of Disability
...articulated a ‘social model’ of disability. This separates the notion of disability and impairment or condition etc. It asserts people are not disabled by their bodies or minds, rather by the barriers and exclusions they face in everyday lives. These are multiple in form, i.e. environmental, societal, conceptual. Disabled people have impairments i.e. physical,...