11107 - ‘Not seeing people as capable’: Disability professionals' mis/understandings of ableism - Friedman - 2024 - Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities - Wiley Online Library
Disability professionals are often positioned as experts on disability; in fact, there is long history of disability professionals exhibiting and reinforcing ableism, especially through individualising and pathologizing disability (Albrecht, 1992; Oliver, 1990). In this study, as revealed through their definitions, less than half of disability professionals truly knew what ableism was. In fact, there was often a mismatch between what they believed they knew about ableism and what their defini...