Inclusion
The society perspective
Helena Vaďurová
DISABILITY
Medical or individual model of disability
• Late 19th century in Western societies, strong until 1950s
• Focus on bodily „abnormality“, disorder or deficienca and on
how it causes functional limitation
• Medical diagnosis, treatment, measurement of recovery
The proces of
disablement
WHO (1980)
Normality
What is it?
How do we know?
When did you last someone
and thought that s/he
behaves/looks abnormal?
Theories of
normality
Social model of
disability
• 1960s – Hunt „Critical condition“
..“the impact of disability lies not only in
the impairment of function and its
effectson us individuallybut more
importantly in our relationship with
„normal“ people.“
...“when disabled individuals appeasr
happy, they are applauded for their
exceptional courage.“
Social model of disability
• Focus on economic, environmental and cultural barriers
• Disability = the disadvantage or restriction of activity caused by a contemporary social
organization
Socio-medical
model of
disability
• Stella Young
• Dylan Alcott
Media and
disability
What have you found in your media?
When did you last see pictures of
people with disability in media?
Adds?
Quiz shows?
• „People do not talk to the person, they
talk to the disability.“
• Media tell a lot about attitudes, behind
every image there is a whole story
• Person with disability:
• Hero overcoming horrible odds
• Frightening
• Strange, lonely, pitiable
Advertisements /
charity
• Public awareness
• Inspiration
• or
• Means of keeping old-fashioned view of
people with disabitlities
World Down
Syndrome Day
• Add „How do you see me?“
• How do you feel about the story?
• Why couldn‘t AnnaRose portray her own life?
• Why could not she be dancing, running, sitting
on the couch with loved ones?
• Able-bodied orthodoxy vs. Appearance of
people with disabilities in media
• Abelism = defining a person by their disability,
being inferior to non-disabled
• Message?
• A model as the obect of a disabled woman‘s
aspirations.
What books and
movies with
people with
disabilities you
can think of?
Books:
In history
• „Freak shows“
• Before WW2
• STEREOTYPED, PRESENTING IMAGES OF
„FREAKISH“
• After WW2
• MORE ACCURATE
• BUT STILL TO PRESENT EVIL X GOOD
• Nowadays
• DISABILITY DRIVES THE PLOT
• DISABILITY AS MINOR CHARACTERISTIC
• LESS STEREOTYPICAL DISABILITY
• Pitiable and pathetioc
• Objects of curiosity or violence
• Sinister
• The super cripple – laughable
• Non-sexual
• Unable to live independent life
• „ToT“ – trying out of tragedy
Mainstreaming
• In media and public life
• Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät