Social Work 1022A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Ontario Human Rights Code, Specific Developmental Disorder, Mental Disorder

• School: Western University
• Department: Social Work
• Course: Social Work 1022A/B
• Professor: Carrie Smith

Document Summary

Social work with people who are differently abled. Disability: persons with disabilities are those who reported difficulties with daily living activities or who indicated that a physical or mental condition or health problem reduced the type or amount of activities they could do. Have to be careful about labeling or diagnosing children early on. Higher % of women, aboriginal population, older adults. Over the next 20 years as people age the number of people with disabilities will rise. Many disabilities are invisible: brain injuries, mental health, medical conditions, learning disabilities, vision, hearing. Disability social and legal category based on poor laws. Mid-(cid:1005)(cid:1013)th (cid:272)e(cid:374)tury outdoor relief repla(cid:272)ed (cid:271)y i(cid:374)stitutio(cid:374)s or (cid:858)i(cid:374)door relief(cid:859) Attitudes will frame the resources we offer to people tried to get rid of them, isolated them. Outdoor relief came to be seen as a mechanism that created dependency. Asylums, poor houses, and houses of industry replaced the former methods of outdoor relief.