Claudia and Sarah
While not about attitudes of the non-disabled to people with disabilities,
the following paper investigates hierarchy within the disability community.
Mastro, J. V., Burton, A. W., Rosendahl, M., and Sherrill, C. 1996,
Attitudes of elite athletes with impairments toward one another: A
hierarchy of preference. Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly, 13(2), 197-210.
Kindest regards
Simon Darcy
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School of Leisure, Sport and Tourism
Faculty of Business
University of Technology, Sydney
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At 10:27 AM 30/6/03 +0100, you wrote:
>Dear Claudia, I'm not sure if you were asking for refs on hierarchies of
>disability or regarding mothers but other people had asked me to pass on any
>hierarchi refs I got, so I thought I'd just send this to the whole list.
>Sarah.
>
>WILTON, R. (2000) Grounding hierarchies of acceptance. The social
>construction of disability in NIMBY. Urban Geography, 21, 586
>
>WEISERBS, B. & GOTTLIEB, H. (2001) The effect of perceived duration of
>physical disability on attitudes of school children toward friendship and
>helping. The Journal of Psychology, 134, 343-345
>
>WESTBROOK, M., LEGGE, V. & PENNAY, M. (1993) Attitudes towards disabilities
>in a multicultural society. Social Science and Medicine, 36, 615-623
>
>TRINGO, J. (1970) The hierarchy of preference toward disability groups. The
>Journal of Special Education, 4, 295-306
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Claudia Malacrida" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 7:59 PM
>Subject: Request for help
>
>
>I am beginning to develop a research proposal relating to interviewing
>mothers with disabilities about their experiences of censure, intervention,
>surveillance, success in spite of the preceding, social support, joys, etc.
>
>In the proposal, I argue that it is important to include mothers with a wide
>range of disabilities, in part because of the different needs for support
>and services that may arise from various impairments. I also understand
>that, both in med/psy/helping professions, and within disability advocacy
>and support groups, there are some who claim that hierarchies of disability
>exist, where some groups of individuals (in particular, those with cognitive
>impairments) have been more marginalized. Can anyone help me out here with
>references, please? Or comments?
>
>Thanks,
>Dr. Claudia Malacrida
>Department of Sociology
>University of Lethbridge
>4401 University Drive
>Lethbridge, Alberta T1K 3M4
>Tel: (403) 329-2738
>Fax: (403) 329-2085
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