Ben took this photo when we were walking on Blue Mountain in Collingwood the other weekend.
I thought these notes from a presentation inclusion author Cheryl Jorgensen sent me were food for thought (and I also get how referring to disability as simply a social construct minimizes the experience of parents raising children with significant disability and medical fragility).
Disability is a social construction, not a deficit located "within" a person. The degree to which disability/difference hinders a person's life is directly correlated with the level of accommodation in the environment for that person's differences and needs.
Disability is one kind of human difference: not deviance, not deficiency, not needing a cure, not needing charity or benevolence.
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People who claim disability is purely a social construct like to distinguish between "disability" and "deficits". They accept the reality of physical "deficits" and that these must be addressed, but maintain that "disability" is purely a "problem" created by society. I get it...but, usually, this distinction is lost in translation and uber inclusionists push their agenda too far for those of us whose children fall on the severe end of "deficits"!
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