Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vol. 21, No. 2 (2004), pp. 141-157 (17 pages) Emerging from the political activism of disabled people's movements and mainly theorised by the scholar Michael Oliver, the ...

The social model of disability frames disability as something that is created by society, rather than only by medical conditions or physical differences. The model acknowledges that people have ...

For those who have never heard of the social model of disability it is best explained as the civil rights view of disablement. It separates impairment from disability and focuses on the responsibility ...

We live in a world shaped by the stories we tell — about ourselves, about others, and about what it means to live a good life. But when society tells only one story about disability — that it is a ...

Think about your underlying assumptions about disability. What causes disability? What are the sources of and solutions to disability-related challenges? Experts categorize ways of thinking about ...

At the end of 2019, just before COVID, the Cuyahoga County Board of Developmental Disabilities (Cuyahoga DD) privatized its day program and transportation services — services that were a visible, ...

All communities and social movements change. If they don’t, they stagnate, lose relevance, and die. The process of change is almost always uncomfortable, sometimes painful, but usually valuable in the ...

Through interactive collaboration with students and campus partners, the Disability Support Services Office facilitates academic access at the University of Wyoming. We extend support to students with ...

Disability Support Services (DSS) at Wilkes University is committed to providing equal educational opportunity for all students who meet the academic admission requirements. If you are an individual ...

A new stroke care delivery model developed by researchers at the Stanford Clinical Excellence Research Center could lower US healthcare costs by as much as $1.6 billion per year, according to a study ...