What is disability Introduce participants to the current human rights approach to disability and explain the evolution of other approaches How disability works Approaches to disability Charity approach ID: 132315
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Module 1
What is disability?Slide2
Introduce participants to the current human rights approach to disability and explain the evolution of other approaches
How disability works
Approaches to disability
Charity approach
Medical approachConsequences of charity and medical approachesSocial approachHuman rights approachKey principles of a rights-based approachConvention’s concept of disabilityLanguage and terminology
Objective
Module flowSlide3
How disability works
Environmental factors
Personal factors
Interaction
Social participationSlide4
Some
personal
factorsSlide5
Environmental factors
Slide6
The interaction
Socioeconomic (individual impact)
PERSONAL FACTORS
Physical (inherent)
AccessibilityENVIRONMENTAL FACTORSServicesPolicy/legal
Socio-economicInteractionSlide7
Four approaches
to
disability
TimeCharity approachMedical approachSocial approachHuman rights approach
ConventionSlide8
Charity
approach
Poor people, we should help them, if we can and want to…
Charity houseSlide9
Charity
approachSlide10
Medical approach
Poor people, we should fix them, so they can participate.
Rehabilitation
centreSlide11
Medical approachSlide12
Consequences
of
charity/medical approachesSlide13
Social approach
Hospital
School
We need to eliminate the barriers to enable
the participation
of persons with
disabilities. Slide14
S
ocial
approachSlide15
Persons
with
disabilities are part of human diversitySlide16
State
Human
rights approach
We, persons with and without
disabilities,
are part of the same society and we have the same rights and
obligations
Non-
discrimination
Equal participation
Convention
Now!Slide17
Human
rights
approachSlide18
Key principles of a human rights approachSlide19
The
Convention’s
concept of disabilityDisability is an evolving conceptand results from the interaction betweenpersons with impairments andattitudinal and environmental
barriersthat hinders their full and effective participation in society on a equal basis with othersSlide20
Language and terminology
Outdated
Suggested
Victim of…Person with…
Suffering from…
Afflicted by…
Person with…
Invalid
Person with
disability
Mentally handicapped
Person with an intellectual
impairment
Mentally ill
Person with a mental or psychosocial
impairment
Manic depressive
Person with bipolarity
Epileptic
Person with epilepsy
Spastic
Person with cerebral palsy
The blind
Person who is
blind, blind person,
person with visual
impairment
The deaf
Deaf person
Disabled parking/disabled toilet
Accessible parking/accessible toiletSlide21
Sources
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
OHCHR
, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs and Inter-Parliamentary Union, From Exclusion to Equality: Realizing the Rights of Persons with Disabilities—Handbook for Parliamentarians on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol (HR/PUB/07/6)OHCHR, FAQ on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Disability/Pages/FAQ.aspx (accessed 2 August 2012)