Disability and Institutional Change

A Human Variation Perspective on Overcoming Oppression

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12364721
AutoresKay Schriner (University of Arkansas), Kay Fletcher Schriner (University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, autor de correspondencia)
Año2001
Volumen12
Número2
Páginas100-106
Fecha de publicación2001-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Disability Policy Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1044-2073 • E-ISSN: 1538-4802
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/104420730101200207
OpenAlexW2039860884
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas10

For at least three decades, disability rights activists have challenged exclusionary and stigmatizing social processes that constrain people with disabilities, an effort highlighted by the 1990 enactment of the Americans with Disabilities Act. However, all environmental barriers to participation by people with disabilities may not be eliminated by a policy strategy that focuses on discrimination and fails to address many forms of oppression that do not fall under legal definitions of discrimination. The human variation model of disability defines disability as the systematic mismatch between physical and mental attributes of individuals and the present (but not the potential) ability of social institutions to accommodate those attributes. Although rights-based approaches remain necessary to overcome the barriers facing many Americans with disabilities, a policy strategy that builds on a human variation approach may further efforts to eliminate disability oppression

Human rights · Medical model of disability · Oppression · Political science · Politics · Psychiatry · Public relations · Social model of disability · Sociology · Variation (astronomy · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities · Law · Psychology · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies

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