Talk:Disability rights movement
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RE: "The question of whether severely mentally disabled persons should be allowed to have sex is a controversial one. In Germany, this topic is brought to the fore by Nina de Vries who offers paid sexual services to these persons."
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- Why is this topic covered on a page that relates to the Disability Rights Movement? Can somebody provide references for this topic? Why is this topic controversial? On what grounds does it relate to the article at hand? I will delete this section unless someone can provide a rationale for it by the middle of next week. --Nicholas 13:27, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Disability - social versus medical model
In the UK (at least) a distinction is made between what is considered to be an outmoded medical model - which sees disability as a condition that that requires a cure to make a disabled person ‘normal’ - and the social model. The social model sets out to make society as a whole aware of, and take steps to remove, the barriers that can socially and economically exclude the 12% of the population who have a disability; an comparable percentage are involved in some caring capacity with a disabled person.
With its emphasis on improving accessibility (not just by physical improvements to buildings or to the external physical environment - but through attitudinal changes in the population currently without a disability) the social model fosters inclusive objectives. Automatically opening doors, for example, benefit those with very young children in buggies or prams, people encumbered with bags, parcels etc - not just wheelchair users or others with mobility problems. Improving access to IT such as screen reading (speech synthesising) and voice recognition software may benefit not just people with visual impairments, but also those with dyslexia and repetitive strain injury - many of whom may not think of themselves as having a disability.
