SLHS 1010 Final
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- Naive people, professionals who work with PWD's and family members often ascribe certain traits to PWD's although they typically do it unintentionally, PWD's often internalized these ascribed traits
- Stereotyping
- People in positions of power define the roles (typically inferior and undesirable) that another individual can assume
- Role Entrapment
- The belief that PWD should be excused or indulged or that they aren't capable of being judged against a higher standard
- Lowered Expectations
- People more often cross the boundaries of PWD's. Also, more people know about PWD's personal lives (interpreters, personal assistants).
- Lack of Privacy
- PWD's with a visible disability are always noticed and usually stared at.
- ?Hypervisibility and overobservation
- When a person is the only person with a particular visible characteristic they are expected to be a "spokesperson" for that characteristic and it is assumed that they represent that group.
- Solo Status
- When a PWD is viewed as having recieved rewards and priviledges as a result of a disability andthat all their achievements are seen as unearned
- Token Status
- People associate a disability with being childlike and using "mothereese" when speaking to a PWD.
- Infantilization
- Doing what you think is best for someone without consulting the individual.
- Paternalization
- PWD's are often viewed as an object or animal, not as a human because "normality" is associated with humanness.
- Viewing the PWD as an object or animal
- PWD's who are taught by society and education that they must be dependent/ when a PWD is not allowed to participate fully in life
- Unnecessary dependence/ Marginality
- The assumption that PWD's can't be in a relationship with a PWOD or that if they are the PWOD has all the power in the relationship, difficulty dating
- Lack of equal social status
- The belief that PWD's are more likely to commit crimes or less valuble than others
- Deviance, social inferiority
- The assumptions and practices that promote the unequal treatment of people because of apparent or assumed physical, mental or behavioral differences.
- Handicapism
- Theory that PWOD's forced to spend time with PWD's would lose prejudice
- Contact theory
- PWD's tactics when making a first impression
- Impression management
- Making PWOD's experience life as a PWD for a day to remove prejudices
- Simulation exercises