What do you think of when you think of disability? Someone in a wheelchair? Someone who is blind and has a cane? Whatever they look like, their impairment means life can be harder for them. The fact ...
A new reform unit in WA Education will guide legislative and policy changes to ensure fairer, more inclusive schooling for ...
Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vol. 21, No. 2 (2004), pp. 141-157 (17 pages) Emerging from the political activism of disabled people's movements and mainly theorised by the scholar Michael Oliver, the ...
The social model of disability frames disability as something that is created by society, rather than only by medical conditions or physical differences. The model acknowledges that people have ...
A long-awaited review of WA’s outdated School Education Act has been tabled in parliament, but not everyone is happy.
We live in a world shaped by the stories we tell — about ourselves, about others, and about what it means to live a good life. But when society tells only one story about disability — that it is a ...
Disability can be difficult to talk about sensitively because of how embedded ableism is in our language, biases and perceptions of disability. Conversations about disability are slowly increasing, ...
Dr Tadgh McMahon is employed at SSI and is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at Flinders University. This research was undertaken jointly by researchers at the Institute for Culture and Society, Western ...
Disability can be difficult to talk about sensitively because of how embedded ableism is in our language, biases and perceptions of disability. Conversations about disability are slowly increasing, ...