According to the social view of disability, the problem of disability is ‘socially constructed and produced’ so it should be located firmly in the structure of society. ‘Disabling’ attitudes and a ‘disabling’ environment (e.g. values, education, modes of production, political economy, welfare systems) have to be examined and changed, leaving behind the individualistic and pathological view of disability. It is basically challenging the medical view of disability, in which the disability is an individual problem, a personal tragedy to be pitied, an individual pathology and a medical problem to be treated.
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Eight-Point Project: Action Research, as a Development Tool for Non-Profit Organizations
Sara Csillag (Budapest Business School, Hungary), Eva Balázs (Equal Opportunities for People with Disabilities Non Profit Ltd, Hungary), Mihály Kocsis (University of Pécs, Hungary), Tessza Udvarhelyi (Equal Opportunities for People with Disabilities Non Profit Ltd, Hungary), and Iren Vago (Equal Opportunities for People with Disabilities Non Profit Ltd, Hungary)
Copyright: © 2017
|Pages: 16
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0731-4.ch022
Abstract
In this chapter the authors report the outcomes of a year-long action research project in which engaged researchers of different professional fields tried to support non-profit institutions and their staff to develop the Hungarian care system for autistic people, re-instill the above-mentioned courage of individuals and teams (composed of psychologists, social workers, special education teachers and parents) and to invent and adopt new processes and procedures. Coordinated and supported by a central research team, 27 non-profit care institutions in the fields of education, employment, housing and social services, healthcare and crisis intervention from all over Hungary led their own action research.