Frameworks for Inclusion: Toward a Transformative Approach
This chapter describes three frameworks for disability inclusion in health science education, the “strict compliance” approach, the “spirit of the law” approach, and the transformative approach. The first two represent “ideal types” of existing approaches
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Disability as Diversity
Lisa M. Meeks • Leslie Neal-Boylan Editors
Disability as Diversity A Guidebook for Inclusion in Medicine, Nursing, and the Health Professions
Editors Lisa M. Meeks Department of Family Medicine The University of Michigan Medical School Ann Arbor, MI USA
Leslie Neal-Boylan Solomont School of Nursing University of Massachusetts Lowell
Lowell, MA USA
ISBN 978-3-030-46186-7 ISBN 978-3-030-46187-4 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46187-4 © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors, and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. This Springer imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Foreword
Disability as Diversity: A Guidebook for Inclusion in Medicine, Nursing, and the Health Professions. Disability and inclusion. These two words in the title of this book are powerful. The implications, when institutions embrace these ideals, are enormous. I was born in the last millennium, long before the Americans with Disabilities Act was a concept, and even before the less potent federal Rehabilitation Act of 1973 was the law of the land. In my early days, people with disabilities of any type were relegated to the background. Everyone born with or acquiring a disability at a young age quickly found that there was little opportunity for success in life-and there was no concept of equal access. People with disabilities were shunted to unskilled jobs and were disregarded by society. This foreordained pathway to unskilled labor perpetuated the concept that people with disabilities, as a whole, were incapable of engaging in a full life. I was an exception. This was only because my parents refused to limit my potential. They were progressive in their insistence that I be given an equal opportunity to acquire a quality educat
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