Taking your person first comment, would you consider yourself to be a person
with daftness then ?
This is not a flippant comment but an attempt to show how the person with a
disability handle is, to my mind, all wrong.
The governments latest campaign with their 'witty' posters about disabled
people has not gone down at all well with the disabled population mostly,
the 'see the person not the disability' angle has some rather dangerous
connotations as it can get in the way of recognising the real disabler, not
the impairment but the society we live in, this doesn't make it all your
individual faults that disabled people are discriminated against (like the
govt. are trying to tell you with this campaign) but lays the 'problem'
squarely at the feet of the people in power who still refuse to recognise
the real root.
Bit serious for a sunny Friday, but it is my life we're talking about here !
Chris
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> From: Karen Ball[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 30 July 1999 11:49
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Channel 4 programmes on Dyslexia
>
> I'm very much in agreement with Susanna - a client recently was described
> by
> his doctor as "an epileptic". There is worse, though, I feel - I still
> come across
> blind people being described as "totals".
>
> At the risk of being considered flippant [me?] I would have to be called
> "a daft" -
> whilst I acknowledge I may be [a little], I don't think it describes me
> fully [or
> perhaps Dave Laycock may disagree...?]. Person first please.
> K
> Please may I have a holiday...? I obviously need one...
>
> Date sent: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 10:18:37 +0100
> Organization: Middlesex University
> Priority: normal
> Subject: Re: Channel 4 programmes on Dyslexia
> From: Susanna Hancock <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
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>
>
> I don't mean to be knit picking, could it might be better to say
> "dyslexic people" or "people with dyslexia",the latter of which I
> prefer, rather than calling people "dyslexics". Surely, we shouldn't
> define people by their impairment. Otherwise, I should have to call
> myself a "blind", which is a thing that hangs from your window, not
> a person.
>
> What do others think?
>
> Susanna.
>
>
> Susanna Hancock
> Equal Opportunities Officer
> QAAS
> ext: 6873
> Email: [log in to unmask]
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