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Module 7 Quiz

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Shakespeare illustrates key differences between the social model of disability and the medical model of disability. Which statement based on his essay is incorrect?
The medical model distinguishes between disabled people as an oppressed group and the non-disabled people that are the causes or contributors to that oppression
Is the statement in bold True or False? According to Kittay, the main organs of the disability movement have insisted that justice for disabled people means allowing them to live independently, and that justice requires society to be organized so that impairments do not lead to dependency. These injustices, although they invoke bodily difference, are rectified by altering the bodies rather than altering the circumstances that discriminate, oppress, and otherwise disadvantage people with those marked bodies.
False
True or False? When lesbian existence is imagined as a marginal alternative to the centrality of heterosexuality, it reinforces the notion that heterosexuality is naturally dominant.
True
Disability studies draw on critiques of ____________. Thus, able-bodiedness is seen as even more ''natural'' than heterosexuality because ___________ is considered a ''normal'' requirement for life in the industrial capitalist system.
normalcy; able-bodiedness
True or False? Some political strengths of the social model include its ability to unite disabled people for political action and its practicality in identifying public barriers to justice.
True
According to Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, what focus must be included in conversations about disability rights and disability justice?
All of these options are correct: safety; justice; healing
True or False? Disabled people may define independence as including the vast networks of assistance and provision that make modern life possible, including personal care workers who provide help and services.
True
Which framework refers to a perception of disability that views difference as something to be clinically "fixed" through the use of medical treatments, even in situations where the difference does not cause pain or illness?
Medical model of disability
Which framework focuses on addressing intersectionality as it relates to disability?
Disability Justice
The bulk of literature on the subject of disability rights arose in the 1970s, even though the disability rights movement in the U.S. is older than that. When does the movement in the U.S. date back to?
1930s
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