OK. I am what I term a post social model theorist.
The faithfully social model caters for a civil rights agenda but it ignores impairment and personal experience. I am currently researching and writing papers on impairment as identity and examining the psychosocial effects for impairment. For myself, using a post social model perspective, disability is irrelevant, since it is merely social barriers must should not exist. Take away disability and you are left with impairment, not perfect normality as many social model theorist would argue.
Now, I am talking about impairment, which was a disability movement sin a few years ago. However, people are beginning to realise that impairment as a greater important to the personal experience and identity relationships within a person. I am currently writing a paper describing this further. I think the next 5 years will be a greater understanding in the psychosocial diversity which differing impairments bring. This can be seen within the bioethics debate within the disability movement, within in its infancy and a loud anti-bioethics disability lobby, including myself as a CP, there is a silent pro-bioethics disabled lobby. An analysis of this would I feel show the diversion to align with clear differences in impairment experiences. In 10 years, I predict the rights-based body of disability studies will process to the identity and cultural based of impairment studies.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Glenn Smith [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 17 April 2000 19:25
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: RE: model of impairment
Hi,
I have been researching chronic illness and disability for several years,
and have seen this term in circulation as a way forward to encompass other
types of impairment that the social model of disability has a tendency to
ignore because of the types of impairments the definition of impariment used
However, Oliver and other people who use it do not explain what they mean -
and try as I might I find the conception impossiable to grasp - maybe I am
blind here. I understand it to mean 'a way of representing all impairments'
or does it mean a way of representing the way impairment in society is
understood - that to me offers little poltical scope. Oliver also sees this
as a seperate undertaking to that needed by disabled people. Interested in
your thoughts.
Cheers,
Glenn. (I'm from the UK - London)
At 19:08 17/04/00 +0100, you wrote:
>Please explain what you think it means? I can then help you better. Also,
are you from UK or US?
>
>Simon Stevens
>Enable Enterprises
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: [log in to unmask]
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Glenn Smith
>Sent: 17 April 2000 14:12
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: model of impairment
>
>Hi all,
>
>I am still trying to get my head around this idea - anybody like to explain
>what it is exactly and how it 'represents' because it is never fully
>explained.
>Cheers,
>Glenn
>
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