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Date – December 15
The disability definition in the UK Equality Act 2010 reinforces a medical model view, identifying disability as an individual condition and as something that can only be experienced negatively. Shaping assumptions and practice in social work, this definition is part of a discourse materialising the structural oppression of disabled people in everyday life. In my presentation I shall outline a different understanding of disability, grounded in disabled people’s experiences and notions of Disability Pride, which challenges this conventional narrative.
