The core of social role valorisation (Wolfensburger) as I understand it -- and I can hear the howls
of derision from it's proponents already that I don't understand it) is that the less impaired one
looks, the less disabled one is, that is to say using specialist and segregated services creates
stigma, and disability. All very well as far as that goes in terms of inclusion, but the problem is
that it dicatates a certain cultural price on inclusion, similar in a sence to the French
Educational system banning religious dress. It sets up the notion of a mainstream normal paradigm
for appearance, service use and behaviour, that essentially denies diversity and essence.
It is the sort of philosophy that would say to me, "Larry don't wear that hat, and those glasses it
will make you look odd" and damn it what I want is acceptance of being "odd" that way I get even :)
Larry
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> It may help. But I read some years ago that the Scandinavian
> countries adopted a model called 'normalisation ' or 'role
> model valorisation' for which the issue was to raise the self
> stem of disabled people to empower them.
>
> Such model influenced USA approaches and was part of an
> interesting debate between Mike Oliver and the father of the
> Scandinavian model -sorry can't remember the name. To put it
> shortly, M Oliver considered that the issue was for disabled
> people material, and that valorisation would come as a result
> of such independence and not the otherway around.
>
> TA, Andy
>
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