[1] Disability experiences, acquired disability and history

What is impairment in the Week 1 distinction?

A difference or limitation involving the body or mind.

What is disability in Shakespeare's distinction?

Social oppression or exclusion experienced by people with impairments.

Why isn't diagnosis alone enough to explain disability?

Environments and social attitudes also shape participation.

What does Nothing about us without us mean?

Disabled people must be involved in decisions that affect them.

Why include lived-experience educators and researchers?

They bring firsthand knowledge and challenge assumptions.

What is acquired disability?

Disability developing after birth, for example through injury or illness.

What might someone experience after acquiring disability?

Grief, uncertainty or changes in identity; responses vary.

What is the disability paradox?

Disabled people may report good quality of life despite outsiders expecting otherwise.

What is post-traumatic growth (PTG)?

Positive changes in meaning or outlook after trauma; it is not guaranteed.

Does grief after a spinal cord injury always mean depression?

No. Grief can occur without clinical depression.

Why might outsiders misjudge life after spinal injury?

They may focus on lost abilities instead of the person's own priorities and life.

What is the positivity myth?

Pressure to portray disability or trauma positively while overlooking difficulties.

How can the environment affect post-traumatic growth?

Accessible places, support and opportunities can enable or restrict it.

Name two possible domains of post-traumatic growth.

Examples include personal strength, deeper relationships and new possibilities.

What does it mean to call disability contextual?

How disability is experienced depends partly on time, place and social expectations.

How did industrialisation contribute to exclusion?

Standardised factory work privileged particular bodies and productivity expectations.

What was a major problem with institutionalisation?

Segregation and control often limited people's choice and inclusion.

Boss: Someone assumes spinal injury ruins quality of life. Which concept challenges this?

The disability paradox: outsiders' assumptions can differ from lived experience.

Boss: Someone says Just stay positive after an injury. What's being overlooked?

The positivity myth can dismiss grief and structural barriers.

Boss: A policy tries to prevent disabled people having children. Which ideology is this?

Eugenics: discriminatory attempts to control who can reproduce.