Universally design social policy: when disability disappears?
Universally design social policy: when disability disappears?
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DOI:
10.3109/09638288.2014.932447
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发表时间:
2014-01-01
影响因子:
2.2
通讯作者:
Bickenbach, Jerome
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作者:
Bickenbach, Jerome
Purpose: The aim of this paper is to review and evaluate the legal and policy feasibility of applying the principles of Universal Design (UD) to create a "universalised disability policy'' that targets the needs and circumstances of persons with disabilities in light of universal human rights, conscious of individual differences. Methods: Applying modified versions of the principles of UD to disability social policy and using core interpretative strategies for human rights implementation (used in the United Nations' Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities) to illuminate, by analogy, ways to resolve the dilemma between seeking equality and respecting difference. Results: The aspirations of UD in architecture and planning - namely to design buildings and cities to accommodate the needs of the widest spectrum of abilities as possible - can successfully be applied to social policy that focuses on the needs and circumstances of persons with disabilities, and which underwrites a blueprint for reform in the delivery of social services. Conclusions: "Universal social policy'', and UD, are feasible and desirable approaches to their respective domains, if we adopt a strategy derived from the legal interpretation of human rights implementation. The consequence, however, may be a policy that begins a process of social disappearance of disability.