P.12. ‘the disabled person is assigned super human almost magical abilities.’
P.12. ‘disabled individuals, especially children, are praised excessively for relatively ordinary achievements’
P12. ‘Daniel Day Lewis -an able-bodied actor.’ – when they cast able bodied actors to play people with impairments.’
P.13. ‘colleges have not recruited disabled students for the acting profession.’ – may be the reason that able bodied people are cast.
P.13. ‘Similar themes abound in news stories about disabled people’s achievements -either extra-ordinary or managing to fit into a ‘normal life”
P.13. ‘This triumph over tragedy approach conveniently excludes the central point that disability is a social issue which cannot be addressed by misplaced sentimentality over individual impairments’
P.13. ‘The negative psychological implications for the majority struggling to cope in a largely hostile
environment are clear.’
P.13. ‘Finally, by emphasising the extra-ordinary achievements of disabled individuals like Christy Brown the media implies that the experiences of’ ordinary’ people -disabled or otherwise -are unimportant and irrelevant. Hence non disabled people view super cripples as unrepresentative of the disabled community as a whole and the gulf between the two groups remains as wide as ever.’
Design Year 3 