What is the social creationist view of disability?
According to some disability scholar’s, disabilities are created by oppressive relations with society , this has been called the social creationist view of disability. In this view, it is important to grasp the difference between physical impairment and disability.
What is the normalization principle?
"The normalization principle means making available to all people with disabilities patterns of life and conditions of everyday living which are as close as possible to the regular circumstances and ways of life or society." Normalization is a rigorous theory of human services that can be applied to disability services. Normalization theory arose in the early 1970s, towards the end of the institutionalisation period in the US; it is one of the strongest and long lasting integration theories for people with severe disabilities.
Is a person with disabilities considered sick?
People with disabilities are not to be viewed as sick, ill, abnormal, subhuman, or unformed, but as people who require significant supports in certain (but not all) areas of their life from daily routines in the home to participation in local community life.