The Philosophy of the

Disabled People's Movement

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The Social Model of Disability

' [The social model ] breaks the old links between disability and impairment, so that disability is seen not as the impairment itself, nor as being caused by impairment. Disability is redefined as the outcome of social arrangements and practices which work to exclude and disadvantage people with impairment; social barriers place restrictions on what they can do and how they can live. In this way, disability becomes a new form of social
oppression.'

(Ref: Thomas C; Female Forms – Experiencing and Understanding Disability; Open University Press 1999)

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" The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy."
                                                                                                       - M.L. King

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