Galvin (2003) observed that “[i] t is thus within language and discourse that the potential to
unshackle the disabled identity lies”(p. 177). Disability advocates have long promoted …

This chapter addresses three primary questions: What is disability culture? What is disability
studies? How do these two interact? Disability culture is explored as a movement “from the …

Purpose: To inform the field of rehabilitation psychology about the sociocultural implications
of the term “disability,” and explain the rationale behind the# SaytheWord movement, a …

Disability as Diversity: Developing Cultural Competence reveals why disability is a cultural
experience, rather than merely a medical status. Conceptual models of disability have …

Drawing on the approach of disability studies this article claims the relevance of culture as
an analytical category for the study of disability. It starts with differentiating several fields of …

The fields of disability studies and educational studies currently operate within four theories
of disability: disability as personal deficit, disability as socially constructed, disability as …

Eighteen disabled individuals, nine with disabilities present at birth and nine with acquired
disabilities participated in tape recorded interviews lasting between 60 and 90 minutes. For …

In this entry we discuss three significant aspects of disability contexts cross-culturally: 1) the
cultural construction of impairment; 2) disability as negative social response to impairment; …

This article presents some psychosocial aspects of disability linked to the person–
environment relation that teachers should share in the psychology classroom. Disability is …

Abstract The American Psychological Association (APA) advocates the use of person-first
language (eg, people with disabilities) to refer to individuals with disabilities in daily …