Disability Theory

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A SOCIAL BARRIERS MODEL OF DISABILITY: THEORY INTO PRACTICE
The increment of the Seven Needs
Ken Davis, Paper prepared for the Derbyshire federation of Disabled People: February, 1990

1. Introduction
1.1. This paper sets give away to explore the origins of a practice, or method of working, which has come to be labelled the septet needs. The phrase is a shortened version of something which started out in life as seven areas for practical action if the phenomenon of damage is to be overcome (1). This intriguing statement first emerged out of the work of the Derbyshire Coalition of Disabled People (DCDP) in establishing the Derbyshire affection for Integrated Living (DCIL). 1.2. DCDPs work on this project began in 1981, when it sought and obtained the in principle support of Derbyshire County Council (DCC) for the idea of a CIL. In February, 1982 a Joint Working ships company amid DCDP and DCC engaged in a mutual exploration of how such a Centre might work, and how it could relate to statutory forms of portion provision. The Working Party was informed by a serial publication of papers (2), which can be seen as a campaign record of DCILs early development. 1.3. The officers of DCC and the members of DCDP on the Joint Working Party were coming from very different backgrounds. On .



the one hand, the sensation of the DCC representatives was for the most part limited by their ablebodied, observational berth on disability; by their training based on the medical model and by the contraints of local means forms of service provision. On the another(prenominal) hand, DCDP members knowledge of disability was drawn from an experiential perspective, and focussed on the social model: they saw the source of the problems they faced as lying in society not in themselves. They also knew that they were negotiating with local authority workers whose jobs were based on a discriminatory foundation. The disability enactment which conferred powers upon local authorities to provide disability...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com



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