I know there is a 'hierarchy of impairments'. Neurodiverse, Mental Health users/survivors and those labelled with 'learning disabilities' are at the bottom of this hierarchy. guess who is at the top?
Yours
Colin Revell
> Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 16:04:49 -0400
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> Subject: literature re: disability hierarchy?
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> Dear colleagues; is anyone aware of scholarly work on disability hierarchy i.e. the largely unwritten
> list of disabilities, ranked in terms of desirability? I am aware of the "hierarchies of acceptance" model
> known in geography, focused on nondisabled perceptions of disabled persons. I am looking more
> for material on the ways in which disabled persons perceive ourselves and other members of our community.
> Thanks, lilith
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