Tag: deaf

Disability Rights and Attitudes Life Journey
16/07/2023

Social model of disability is archaic and flawed

The barriers damaged humans encounter in their daily life include inaccessible education systems, inaccessible work settings, deficient impairment benefits, discriminatory health and social support services, hard to access transport, unfit for purpose accommodation, public buildings, and amenities. The degrading of some types of body damage in people occurs through innocent ignorance, comic relief, and negative images in the media – films, television and newspapers. There […]

Disability Rights and Attitudes Life Journey
13/07/2023

Instead of the wheelchair being seen as freedom giving equipment the wheelchair is a society symbol of sickness, unhealthy and social ‘disability’

Write a book and it makes you an expert. Write an academic book and it is taught in education institutions and revered by the 1st class honours solution searchers. Say something often enough and people accept it as factual evidence. Free thinking is removed from the education curriculum and replaced by authoritarian consensus. The ‘disability’ stereotype was born and is continually reinforced via this process. […]

Disability Rights and Attitudes
03/07/2023

DISABILITY label is a grievous misdemeanour against freedom of living a normal life

“Hey mum can you give me the blind man’s phone number?” “Sorry son, I don’t know any blind men.” “I mean the man who makes blinds to cover the windows.” “Oh, yes sure. Here it is.” A crucial requirement of grasping the needs of another human being is to understand their life circumstances and experiences. Sometimes conceptual frameworks are used in an attempt to sense […]

Australia Disability Life Journey
05/06/2023

The Social Model of Disability is a joke Joyce!

Australia’s proud culture was built on taking the Micky out of all and sundry especially ourselves. Jokes are a fantastic tool to allow people to see and be educated in the variation in culture and individual situations. An individual reaction to a joke provides an insight into that individual’s belief system. Nothing more, nothing less.   Offense comes from within the self and cannot be […]