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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
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]


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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!!
http://www.raggededgemagazine.com/mediacircus/styleguidehttp://www.raggededgemagazine.com/mediacircus/styleguide


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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
http://www.ted.com/talks/aimee_mullins_prosthetic_aesthetics?language=enhttp://www.ted.com/talks/aimee_mullins_prosthetic_aesthetics?language=enhttp://www.ted.com/talks/aimee_mullins_prosthetic_aesthetics?language=enhttp://www.ted.com/talks/aimee_mullins_prosthetic_aesthetics?language=enhttp://www.ted.com/talks/aimee_mullins_prosthetic_aesthetics?language=en

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