This paper describes how four ‘helping’ professionals came to embrace and teach critical disabili... more This paper describes how four ‘helping’ professionals came to embrace and teach critical disability studies (CDS) perspectives rather than biomedical approaches to impairment and disability that traditionally inform those professions (occupational therapy, physiotherapy, social work, and speech-language pathology). Sharing examples from our experiences, we describe how we came to question the normative, ableist assumptions of our professional disciplines. We then briefly outline literature demonstrating how critical approaches have been incorporated into professional research and practice and discuss possible obstacles and tensions in adopting more widespread critical approaches into professional spaces. We conclude by suggesting that continued development of connections among scholars and activists within CDS, rehabilitation and social work, and the community, is necessary to ensure that intersectional critical perspectives in relation to disability become a core component of profe...
The Routledge Handbook of Disability and Sexuality, 2021
In this chapter, we suggest that crip theory is a productive way of bridging critical disability ... more In this chapter, we suggest that crip theory is a productive way of bridging critical disability studies and the sociology of sexualities.We concur with Goodley’s (2014) claim that “queer and disability studies have the potential to unsettle one another and fnd shared vocabularies” (p. 38). Drawing on some of the major works and implications of crip theory, we suggest directions for its further development and demonstrate how this theoretical approach is uniquely positioned to contribute to both critical disability and sexualities studies. On one hand, crip theory sheds light on theoretical tools that disability studies scholars can use to understand the ways disabled people experience and negotiate their intimate lives through a multi-level analytic approach. On the other hand, it suggests disability studies insights that can contribute to theoretical perspectives in sexualities studies. To do so, we contextualize this discussion in relation to the sexualities of people labelled/with intellectual disabilities (ID), a disability label that appears to complicate questions of sexualities.
... with intellectual disabilities have to say, the study provided a space for labelled people to... more ... with intellectual disabilities have to say, the study provided a space for labelled people to critique public photographic images and challenge the taken-for-granted “truths” of disability inscribed in them ... Disability and Society , 15: 747–764 ... Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ...
This paper describes how four ‘helping’ professionals came to embrace and teach critical disabili... more This paper describes how four ‘helping’ professionals came to embrace and teach critical disability studies (CDS) perspectives rather than biomedical approaches to impairment and disability that traditionally inform those professions (occupational therapy, physiotherapy, social work, and speech-language pathology). Sharing examples from our experiences, we describe how we came to question the normative, ableist assumptions of our professional disciplines. We then briefly outline literature demonstrating how critical approaches have been incorporated into professional research and practice and discuss possible obstacles and tensions in adopting more widespread critical approaches into professional spaces. We conclude by suggesting that continued development of connections among scholars and activists within CDS, rehabilitation and social work, and the community, is necessary to ensure that intersectional critical perspectives in relation to disability become a core component of profe...
The Routledge Handbook of Disability and Sexuality, 2021
In this chapter, we suggest that crip theory is a productive way of bridging critical disability ... more In this chapter, we suggest that crip theory is a productive way of bridging critical disability studies and the sociology of sexualities.We concur with Goodley’s (2014) claim that “queer and disability studies have the potential to unsettle one another and fnd shared vocabularies” (p. 38). Drawing on some of the major works and implications of crip theory, we suggest directions for its further development and demonstrate how this theoretical approach is uniquely positioned to contribute to both critical disability and sexualities studies. On one hand, crip theory sheds light on theoretical tools that disability studies scholars can use to understand the ways disabled people experience and negotiate their intimate lives through a multi-level analytic approach. On the other hand, it suggests disability studies insights that can contribute to theoretical perspectives in sexualities studies. To do so, we contextualize this discussion in relation to the sexualities of people labelled/with intellectual disabilities (ID), a disability label that appears to complicate questions of sexualities.
... with intellectual disabilities have to say, the study provided a space for labelled people to... more ... with intellectual disabilities have to say, the study provided a space for labelled people to critique public photographic images and challenge the taken-for-granted “truths” of disability inscribed in them ... Disability and Society , 15: 747–764 ... Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ...
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to contribute to both critical disability and sexualities studies. On one hand, crip theory sheds light on theoretical tools that disability studies scholars can use to understand the ways disabled people experience and negotiate their intimate lives through a multi-level analytic approach. On the other hand, it suggests disability studies insights that can contribute to theoretical perspectives in sexualities studies. To do so, we contextualize this discussion in relation to the sexualities of people labelled/with intellectual disabilities (ID), a disability label that appears to complicate questions of sexualities.
to contribute to both critical disability and sexualities studies. On one hand, crip theory sheds light on theoretical tools that disability studies scholars can use to understand the ways disabled people experience and negotiate their intimate lives through a multi-level analytic approach. On the other hand, it suggests disability studies insights that can contribute to theoretical perspectives in sexualities studies. To do so, we contextualize this discussion in relation to the sexualities of people labelled/with intellectual disabilities (ID), a disability label that appears to complicate questions of sexualities.