afraid I must disagree with you here Rosie:
being disabled doesn't make you an expert in disability in the same way
that for example driving a car doesn't make you an expert driver.
Granted life experience gives you greater insight in to the likely issues
related to disability but this in my opinion is a long way from expert
knowledge.
>From my relatively short time reading this list (about 3 weeks) it has
become clear that many if not most of us are disabled and / or study
disability therefore may well be dare I suggest slightly out of touch with
those people who have disabilites but do not get involved in the study or
politics of disability.
many of you (us) here may be experts, not everyone is . . .
At 13:01 29/10/99 +0100, you wrote:
>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
>E-mail - [log in to unmask]
>Web Site - http://www.rms-cons.demon.co.uk
>
>-----Original Message-----
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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
>
>
>
Adrian Higginbotham:
S U R F A C E
Salford University, Research Focus on Accessible Environments.
tel> 0161 2954939.
if a pig looses his voice is he disgruntled?
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