Hello all
Mitzi said in response to Mairian's post - I have clipped this:
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From: "Mitzi Waltz" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 1:18 AM
Subject: Re: social model and impairment
| even when the person concerned
| is functioning reasonably well in either a setting
| that fits the person, or in a mainstream setting. In
| a case like this, disablement can occur solely
| because of perception, because of perception plus
| actual impairment, or because of impairment alone.
| What all three possibilities have in common is
| disablement--social exclusion, discrimination,
| maltreatment, etc.--and it's that disablement that we
| need to address from a social model perspective.
There is another Mitzi, and as a student, I am sure you are aware that
there's also the denial of impairment or its trivialisation and
minimisation. Surely you must have come across people who claim that you are
not really sick: its just a scam to get out of putting in as much effort as
other people and to seek benefits that you don't really need?
Best regards
Laurence Bathurst
School of Occupation and Leisure Sciences
Faculty of Health Sciences
University of Sydney
PO Box 170
Lidcombe NSW 1825
Australia
Ph: 61 2 9351 9509
Fax: 61 2 9351 9509
Email: [log in to unmask]
See School Website www.ot.cchs.usyd.edu.au
Home Ph: 61 2 9818 2050
Mobile Ph: 0407 069 441
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