hi all,
I agree with Liz and would like to add the "problem" for me is the underlying able-centred belief that individuals must overcome their disability. At times parents affirm "a different way of being" that professionals who adhere to "normalization" read as non-compliance.
I would like to add the reverse also happens where parents adhere to ableist beliefs that block "professionals" who are adhering to "a different way of being" and see disability as diversity.
Simply put it is not one group "good" the other "bad" but the underlying discourses that inform attitudes, behaviour, and systems of being.
best,
Jim
James Overboe
Assistant Professor
Sociology Department
Cultural Analysis and Social Theory M.A. Program
Wilfrid Laurier University
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