Disability as Human Variation
Implications for Policy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9769368 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard K Scotch (0000-0002-8993-7670, corresponding author), Kay Schriner, Kay Fletcher Schriner |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 549 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 148-159 |
| Publication date | 1997-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002716297549001011 |
| OpenAlex | W2098545180 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
| References cited | 8 |
The impact of any disability policy depends on the conceptual model of disability upon which that policy rests. For the past quarter century of disability policymaking, culminating in the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the dominant paradigm of disability has been a minority group model. That model identifies discrimination as the primary barrier facing people with disabilities in their desire for full social participation, and it proposes civil rights strategies as the proper policy response to that barrier. An alternative model of disability based on the concept of human variation is proposed that implies additional strategies for achieving the goal of integration of people with disabilities. The utility of a human variation model is illustrated by its application to the issue of access to employment
Civil rights · Conceptual model · Economics · Human rights · Medical model of disability · Political science · Public economics · Quarter (Canadian coin · Social model of disability · Sociology · Variation (astronomy · Computer Science · Discrimination and Equality Law · Employment and Welfare Studies · Law · Psychology · Retirement, Disability, and Employment
Neurodiversity Studies
Universalism, universal design and equitable access to the built environment
Redefining Disability, Re-imagining the Self
Self-representation of people with disabilities
Newborns With an Impairment
Deconstructing Barriers
An Environment Built to Include Rather than Exclude Me”
Policies to change attitudes to people with disabilities
Object, problem, or subject
Disability Policy
Implications of Consumer Direction for Disability Policy Development and Rehabilitation Service Delivery
Theoretical and Applied Issues in Defining Disability in Labor Market Research
Disability and Institutional Change
Civil Rights and Employment Issues of Disability Policy
Locations of Employment Services and People With Disabilities
Vestiges of the medical model
Disability terminology and the emergence of ‘diffability’ in Indonesia
The employment situation of people with disabilities in Lebanon
Expanding the Frontiers of Justice
Help or hindrance
Autism, epistemic injustice, and epistemic disablement
Disability Oppression in the Contemporary U. S. Capitalist Workplace
No Mere Difference
The Americans With Disabilities Act as Engine of Social Change
| Unique citing works | 24 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,92 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2025 (26) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 24 |