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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Disablism"”.
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Reimagining Learning Disabilities: Embracing Difference as an Empowering Resource Amidst Psycho-Emotional Disablism
… explores the experiences of psycho-emotional disablism in individuals with learning disabilities (LDs) and examines how, despite these challenges, they can reframe their LD as a resource. Employing a Critical Disability Studies (CDS) and a social-relational framework, three interconnected …
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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Fibromyalgia : a Social Model of Disability Perspective
… with CFS/ME have experienced psycho-emotional disablism. Finally, a critical appraisal discusses the process of conducting the research as well as its strengths and limitations. The literature review takes the form of a meta-synthesis regarding the attitudes of healthcare professionals towards …
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Challenges Facing the Disabled People’s Movement in the UK: An Analysis of Activist’s Positions
… these challenges comprise novel forms of disablism that coexist with older and more familiar forms of disablism associated with paternalism and oppression within institutions. Following examination of these challenges, attention turns to the political positions and responses that disabled …
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Attitudes of disabled people toward other disabled people and impairment groups
… discussion therefore utilises the term aversive disablism, based on aversive racism. This theory argues that whilst people may be reluctant to express negative attitudes toward disabled people, they may also support policies that are disablist, i.e. segregated housing. The contact hypothesis, …
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The role of exercise in negotiating an identity as disabled: A qualitative exploration of the experiences of individuals with multiple sclerosis
… using exercise to recognize ableism, structural disablism, and develop a political disability identity; and using exercise to adapt to and prepare for situations inhospitable to disabled individuals. CONCLUSIONS: Contextualizing these results within the Social Relational Model of Disability, …
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'It's All Very Blurry' : Exploring the Messy Realities of Living with Hepatitis C.
… and produce severe impairment effects and disablism. Given the lack of attention afforded to hepatitis C experience in the UK, at the heart of this PhD study are 21 people with the virus, who participated in qualitative interviews. Findings are structured around topics currently under …
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An Examination of the Experiences and Perceptions of Dyslexic Police Officers in England and Wales
… This research concludes that institutional disablism in terms of dyslexia is widespread across some police services in England and Wales despite the extension of the disability discrimination legislation to the police service. The research concludes with some recommendations for policy and …
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The emergence and development of Disability Hate Crime policy and practice in England and Wales : a case of an unsettled and unsettling policy agenda
… and linked ideologies of ableism and disablism. This under recognition of disability hostility lead to justice failures in Disability Hate Crime cases. Constructions of the targeting of disabled people in crime as based on vulnerability lacks recognition of such targeting as biased, …
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Beyond incredible: The Paralympic road to Rio - an ethnographic study
… sport and humor as a form of resistance against disablism leading to a sense of empowerment. Themes related to the role of healthcare providers included the introduction of patients to sport, athletes’ perceptions of their healthcare providers as facilitator or barrier, and the roles of a …