Dear Jude,
In my opinion a 'disabled expert' is any disabled person who exists daily
in a 'Disabling Society'. We experience 'being disabled' every day and
therefore must be experts at it!
Regards -- Rosie.
Rosaleen Moriarty-Simmonds, B.Sc.(Hon).
RMS - Freelance Journalist & Disability Issues Consultant
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Subject: Disabled expert?
I have been trying to get my head around this term, disabled
expert. I'm having a hard time conceiving what exactly that could
consist of, meaning is this a disabled person which because of
their disability automatically made an expert in disability. I'm a
dwarf person, but I'm not a dwarf expert. I know quite a bit about
my type of dwarfism, but I don't have my PhD in this area there for
I'm not an expert. I only know of my life excrescences and the
research I have undertaken concerning architectural access to the
built environment.
I could be getting this term totally wrong! I am glad I have others of
which I can learn from on this list.
Thanks,
Jude
Judith M. Irving BSc Arch.Envir.Design
Research Assistant / PhD Student
S U R F A C E
Salford University Research Focus on AcCessible Environments
Bridgewater Building
Salford University
Salford, M7 9NU
England
Tel:0161-295-3194
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