'Not seeing people as capable': Disability professionals' mis/understandings of ableism.
In: Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, Jg. 37 (2024-05-01), Heft 3, S. 1-9
Online
academicJournal
Zugriff:
Background: Knowledge about how disability professionals understand ableism may provide insight into the production of inequalities. The aim of this study was to examine how disability professionals understand ableism. Methods: We asked 347 disability professionals, all of whom worked with people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, among other populations, to define ableism and then analysed those definitions using content analysis. Results: The themes about how participants understood ableism were: discrimination; differential treatment; individualization; norms and othering; ableist language; microaggressions; and systems and environments. It was also not uncommon for participants to say ableist things, and express misconceptions in their definitions. This included these themes: avoiding disability; using ableist language; framing disability as in/ability; centring people without disabilities; ignoring invisible disabilities; believing only people without disabilities have bias; and believing ableism does not exist. Conclusions: Knowing disability professionals' understandings of ableism is necessary to intervene biased attitudes and reduce ableism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Titel: |
'Not seeing people as capable': Disability professionals' mis/understandings of ableism.
|
---|---|
Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Friedman, Carli ; VanPuymbrouck, Laura ; Gordon, Zach |
Link: | |
Zeitschrift: | Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, Jg. 37 (2024-05-01), Heft 3, S. 1-9 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2024 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISSN: | 1360-2322 (print) |
DOI: | 10.1111/jar.13218 |
Schlagwort: |
|
Sonstiges: |
|