Hi Dale,________________End of message________________It concerns me that you are talking about "limiting the definition of disability" rather than about limiting the scope of your paper. I believe also that limiting the scope of your paper to exclude mental disabilities may be unwittingly falling into discrimination. Could you say more about why you think that the distinction between mental and physical disabilities is a useful way to narrow the scope? People with mental disabilities are often the most discriminated against in law, and are also unjustly excluded from the definition of disability in many countries, so that excluding this group from the research on anti-discrimination law would perpetuate its exclusion more broadly.Interestingly, it may be that all disability can be experienced in physical/ sensory/ mental/ intellectual and other dimensions. As I read in the report of a training seminar of people with "psychosocial" disabilities, the leader presented it in this way with a resulting rich discussion.Best wishes,Tina Minkowitz, Esq.Center for the Human Rights of Users and Survivors of PsychiatryInternational RepresentativeWorld Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry
On Jun 27, 2012, at 2:16 AM, Dale Reardon wrote:________________End of message________________Hi,I am blind myself and undertaking some PhD research into anti-discrimination law in Australia – perhaps an international comparison as well.My supervisors have suggested that I confine the research to vision impairment disability but I am concerned that may be too narrow.I have thought of confining the research to physical disabilities – drawing a distinction from mental impairments, acquired head injuries etc. Hence I would cover people in wheelchairs, blindness, deafness – the physical disabilities.Can the definition of disability be limited easily to physical disabilities? Are there some disabilities that I haven’t considered that could fall in both categories?Thanks for ideas and discussion.Dale.Dale ReardonPhone: 03 62867105 Mobile: 0420 277457Follow me on Twitter <http://www.twitter.com/dalereardon/> and Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/dalereardon/>My blog <http://www.dalereardon.com.au/> covering discrimination law, Disability Issues and higher educationFor information on moving to Tasmania, see Settled In Home Search and Relocation Services <http://www.settledin.com.au/>This Disability-Research Discussion list is managed by the Centre for Disability Studies at the University of Leeds (www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies).
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