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GS 420: Disability &
SocietyNot accepting any crashers for GS 420Section 1
If interested, we are taking crashers for GS420, Section 2 that meets at 7:00 p.m.
(following this class)
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Disability & Society - GS 420
Wednesday, 9/3
Assignment #1 due 9/17: All About
Me
: Autobiography/Picture/StudentProfile
Review directions on Blackboard under
assignments link to upload on
Blackboard assignment #1
Check out Blackboard forAnnouncementsCommunity
Service Opportunities under
Assignment 6!
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Student Numbers
Once the add/drop date has passed (9/8)
students in GS 420 will be assigned a
number. This student number must be
used on all class responses and
assignments. Failure to include this
number will result in points loss.
Numbers will be assigned on 9/10 (nextweek)
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Community Service
Opportunities! 15 hours Required!
Get Started Right Away!
Help Rita! Contact her at [email protected] (or
talk with her after class)
Todays presentations:
Rachel SchlesingerStudent Ability Network
(SAN) and Student Advisory Board(SAB) for
Students with Disabilities Services (SDS)
Nico Marcolongo from Buddy Bowl
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Facets of Human Diversity
Despite being individually unique, wetend to subdivide - focusing ondifferences for security
Information and experience are thekeys to interacting with others usingtolerance and respect
LABELS & TERMS
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Terms and Labels
The terms used should be positive,
current, and correct
Think carefully about the words you
choose
Labels can be used both positively and
negatively
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LabelsGood or Bad?
Pros:
funding for services
resource for professionals
Cons:
stigma
stereotypes; dehumanize
everlasting
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Thoughts about the power
of words. . .
We must take language very seriously. The
feeling I have is that language is always a
reflection of attitude. With the
advancement of the disability movementyou see a change in language.
Michael Masutha,Lawyer for Human Rights
South Africa
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Language is a social product
Not only is language affected by societyand culture, society and culture areaffected, reciprocally, by language. The
kinds of images that terms likecripple,
invalid,retard,confined to awheelchair,blind as a bat,and deafand dumbgenerate have an ideological
and therefore social and cultural impact.James Charlton
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What should we say. . .
Language informs attitudes and beliefs
because it is a medium of expression and
thought
Remember that disability is a social
construct
See the person first,not the disability
Think before you speak!Class session 2resource folder
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Person First
LanguagePeople before
the disability!
Dont say: Mr. Lee is a crippled teacher
and bound to a wheelchair. He teaches
retarded students.
Instead say: Mr. Lee is a teacher with a
physical disability and he uses a
wheelchair. He teaches students who
have intellectual disabilities.
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Practice Person First
LanguageRewrite using person firstlanguage:
A large bank in California modified its
building for handicapped employees. The
disabled employees included afflicted
college graduates who were dumb, crazy,
lame, and spastic.
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Person First Language
A large bank in California modified its
building for employees with disabilities.
The employees with disabilities included
college graduates who were nonverbal,had mental illness, physical disabilities,
and cerebral palsy.
Review Think Before You SpeakinClass 2 Resources
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Labels/Terms
Goal:To understand how to define humandifferences and give some guidance in regard tosocial interaction with various people.
Exceptional individual: Term often used in textbooks: a person who is significantly diverse ordifferent from those who are considered average
however we prefer to consider everyoneexceptional!
Disorder:broad term that refers to generalmalfunction of mental, physical, or psychologicalprocess
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Labels/Terms, cont.
Disability:reduced function or loss of aparticular body part or organ - physical,emotional, cognitive, or sensory
Impairment:implies diseased, damaged,or defective tissue
**Handicap:problems a person faces
when interacting with the environment(Use in golf games or bowling!)
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Disability 101
You dont have to be mean-spirited to beprejudiced.
- Ragged Edge online community
Permissible prejudices are taken for
granted assumptions of basically wellmeaning people.
- Psychoanalyst Nancy Chodorow
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Defining Disability
Historically
Health care/medical model:
Disabling perspective
Broken lives, helpless, pity
Need to be fixed
Focuses on individual limitations
Views the impairment as disablinginstead of
societal barriers and attitudes as being the
disabling factor
Reinforces discrimination, fear and lack of dignity
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What is so bad about that?
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The Problem(s)
Gender and race are distinctive causes of social
oppression, whereas disability is an individual
and medical issue
Disability is dysfunctional: personal tragedy:problem at the individual level, difficulty lies with
functional limitations (defects), and medical
knowledge determines treatment options
The individual is required to cooperate with
rehabilitation professionals to achieve normalcy
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The result
People with disabilities have been viewed
as:
Useless
Unfortunate
Different
Oppressed
Sick
Social barriers: architectural, attitudinal,
educational, occupational, legal and personal
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Permissible Prejudices
rationalprejudices
From the point of view of the person who holdsa prejudice, it is not one.
Assumed truth No pressure from society, no reason to question
beliefs..
Racism among otherwise enlightened white
peoplein the 50s was at that time apermissible prejudice.
Racism is now an impermissible prejudice.
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How do we lesson prejudice?
Gordon Allport, Harvard trained psychologist andtheorist: The Nature of Prejudice (1950)
Intergroup Contact required:
Two groups have equal status Two groups working towards common goal
based on co-operation
Intergroup contact is both frequent and of a
duration that allows meaningful relationships todevelop
Social and Institutional support is given
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ACTIVISM makes a HUGE
difference!
Education is a good thing, but it is not
enough
STRUCTURAL CHANGE:
INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE
Change occurs Structural: boycotts, sit-ins, marches!
Anger is a powerful change agent!
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ABLEISM
Disability prejudice and discrimination
Belief that disability in and of itself makes one in
some way lesser, less deserving of respect,
equal treatment, equality before the law. Thomas Hehir, Harvard Professor: devaluation
of disability results in societal attitudes that
uncritically assert that it is better to walk than
to roll, speak than [use] sign [language], read
print than read Braille
S B li f b t P l ith Di biliti
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Some Beliefs about People with Disabilities
- Ragged Edge editors Edge-Centric
blog: People with disabilities are angry at the world;
they are selfish, too, wanting more than their fairshare.
People with disabilities are dependent upon thegovernment for financial support.
Parents are angels for raising their disabledchildren.
Parents who abuse (or murder) theirdisabledchildrenwere driven to it by the disability and
should not be condemned.
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Some more
People with disabilities go around suingeveryone who makes them angry.
A personman or womanwho is in an
intimate relationship with a man or womanwith a disability is either a saint orperverted.
If you have a disability, youre incapableof handling your own affairs or living your
own life or making your own decisions.
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Just a few more to consider
Most people with disabilities dont want to
work; theyre lazy.
People with disabilities are good workers;
they dont mind working at repetitive jobs.
If I feel sorry for myself, all I have to do is
think of ____________, who uses a
wheelchair and then I count my blessings!
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How Can We Institute the Change
and Elimination of Ableism
Change our perspective and beliefs
Become alliesin the movement Self-awareness is key!
Confront our own beliefs
Learn how to move by learning from thosepeople who experience disability! Providesupportmoral, financial, effort!
ADOPT A NEW MODEL OF BELIEFS
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Social Model
Focuses on societal attitudes and barriers that
prevent individuals with impairments from
living fulfilled lives Societal barriers and attitudes are the
disablingfactor
Calls for an inclusive society thatacknowledges differences and fosters
opportunities for all
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Human Variation Model
Focuses on differences like disability as a
natural part of the diversity of the human
condition Disability arises when there is failure to meet
a persons needs with systems or
environmental supports
Advocates universal solutions and customized
supports to maximize peoplespotential
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Important to remember:
Forget the label and focus on the person.
Please use person firstlanguage in all
written assignments and verbal
communication!!
When in doubt, ask!!
Stay calm at all times!!
Oth f l
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Other sources for language
usage
Nothing About Us Without Usby JamesI Charlton (1998) Univ. of Calif. Pressaddresses universal disability issues
(including language)
Beyond the AP Stylebook
www.raggededgemagazine.com
Avoid clichs and clichd constructions
Use value-neutral
terms andconstructions. Don
t interject youradmirationor pity- into your story!!
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Something to think about. .
What terms to use?
Disabilityis the word of choice
Within the community, words like crips,
gimps,quads,are terms within themovementused by people with disabilities
not to be used by media or TABs
Temporarily Able Bodied
Disability is not a fate worse than death.
Dont write (or talk about it) as though it
were!
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Welcome Nico Marcolongo
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Something to think about.
http://www.ted.com/talks/aimee_mullins_pr
osthetic_aesthetics?language=en
http://www.today.com/parents/amazing-
triathlon-brothers-compete-second-race-
1D80102398
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