On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Alden Chadwick wrote:
> I think you might be overstating your case. From my experience of working
> in local government (UK) and with organisations of disabled people - a
> social approach to disability is as rare as rocking horse s..t. It may be
> common knowledge on this list, but it ain't out there.
Point taken, 'out there' the social model is not commnon knowledge - but
I am talking about what is common knowledge here, on activist groups,
academia and out there, and with the exception of out there - *the
social model* is all that's really given " air time" as it were, all it
that is discussed. This is not because it is so, so great and perfect
that we need not consider any other perspective, or that no other
perspective exists, but that the movement will not allow any other
perspective to be heard. Does the social model in the Fundamental
Principle formation i.e UPIAS deserve to be out there, if all we do is go on
and on about how it is ALL society's fault, a story which most of the people I
test the social model out on, that is tell them about it don't buy
and not consider that the impairment may have something to do with it?
Michael
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