DBST 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Disability Studies, Ableism, Medical Model
14 Dec 2017
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Handicap restricts a person"s ability to function physically, mentally, or socially. Autism is a disorder of neural development characterized by impaired social interaction, verbal and non-verbal communication, and by restricted and repetitive behavior. Ableism is a discrimination in favor of able-bodied people. Eugenics he science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics. Francis galton as a method of improving the human race, it fell into disfavor only after the perversion of its doctrines by the nazis. Prejudice or discrimination against people with disabilities in favor of people who are able-bodied . Ableism: those with developmental emotional learning disabilities and psychiatrics, society automatically thinks someone with a disability is not normal. Before it was a social legal issues until the 19th century: many people now a days must be defined as disabled This is because we diminish between society able body and the disabled bodies.
