Disability Studies Final - Part 3: OLP vs OLPwD

IHDD 2010

OLP’s are

parent led organizations and they tend to be controversial and vary in understanding

OLPwD’s are

people with disability led organizations

child optimization

belief that parents try to hide their child’s disability to make them “more normal”

Disadvantages of OLP’s

they often fall short and ar esometimes understood as “suspicious” allies who “sometimes” offer alliance but other times, in other ways, fail to do so.