Does it matter? If we do away with evidence of disability [ignoring
whether it comes from a medic or a psychologist or whoever is
appropriate to that disability] then we have no disabled people.
Surely what is important is an inclusion model where we design and
operate a society where "impairments" or "dis-abilities" are reduced as
far as possible and alternative access is available to goods, services
and premises??
That of course is unattainable utopia - at least for our career span -
so can we not accept that medical evidence is a pre-requisite for things
like the DSA and then use the philosophy of the social model when
working with people identified as disabled.
I much prefer an inclusion model to either medical or social models
because so many people who could benefit from systems like the DSA are
excluded because they are perhaps "not quite disabled enough" to qualify
- and how discriminatory is that????
Just a thought from the perspective of a couple of my students who are
in that situation and for whom we provide support but the DSA won't
John
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