SOCIAL EXPEREICES OF PHYSICALLY DISABLED

Disability: The impact of the society on the social experience of physically disabled persons: A Proposal



Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION3

Background of the study3

Problem Statement6

Purpose of the Study6

Rationale of the Study6

Aims and Objectives7

Research Questions7

Scope and Significance of the Study7

Reliability and Validity8

Ethical Concerns8

CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW9

Discrimination based on physical ability and stigma of inferiority13

Ignorance of difference and exclusion from the norm15

Socio-economic marginalisation16

CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY19

Research Approach19

Sampling19

Sample of Participants19

Instrument20

Data Analysis20

Reflection21

Iterancy21

Collaboration22

Role of Researcher22

Projected Time Table23

REFERENCES24

APPENDIX - A26

Sample Questionnaire26

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

Background of the study

The evolution of the social status of disabled people has improved in terms of adaptation and, above all, your perception. Since the early 80's have developed social models of disability that add new insights to the term. For example, distinguishes between a disabled person (whose skill is objectively lower than the average) and a person with skills other than normal, which, although it only represents no advantage or disadvantage is often considered a problem because the attitude of society or the fact that the standards are based on the average characteristics or normal n (Banks, 2010, 25).

There is no single definition of disability. Due to the broadness of the concept, it is really difficult to provide a concise definition of the concept. The fact is that physical disability has had a drastic negative impact on the individual and society as a whole.

During the eighties, the discourse of "any integration gradually took over from the "all institutions". Some insist to seek integration at any price. This bordered on the hard and could lead to heavy setbacks in the years to come. Indeed, we should not follow the example of psychiatry who wanted, in a laudable impulse, "the insane asylums out" because we can see that the streets or train stations are not alternatives desirable in the hospital (Banks, 2010, 26). Today is the homelessness that is the main result of the reduction of psychiatry, because no solution relays were considered (Ireys, 2006, 25). These patients are found overwhelmingly in homelessness CHRS, if not left to themselves in the squats.

Without the medico-social action not is there, looking for integration may also generate negative effects should be anticipated, for example, people who found a rewarding place in a protected world (as some workers in CAT) may fall into a very marginal role in ordinary business. The transition from one home to a hyper protective habitat usually does not always take place under the conditions that you would like. Moreover, the ideologies of "therapy and social work community" of the seventies have conveyed a utopian vision, under a naive humanism, which saw in the surrounding community an environment of caring partner, capable of integrate the stigmatised persons (Ialongo, 2008, 19).

This change in attitude has enabled changes in the understanding of certain physical characteristics that were previously regarded as disabilities. In the 60's, for example, left-handed people were seen as anomalies. In schools in the Western world, left-handed children were forced to write with his right hand and were punished if they did ...