‘Did You See That Guy in the Wheelchair Down the Pub?’ Interactions across Difference in a Public Place

Lenney, Michael J.; Sercombe, Howard

doi:10.1080/09687590120100093

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“…People often claim to be free of assumptions about individuals with a disability . However, this contradicts explicit reports from wheelchair users and implicit psychophysiological measures in healthy participants that indicate a clear sense of discomfort in the presence of disabled individuals . If prejudices represent the emotional component of categorisation, then stereotypes represent their cognitive counterpart .…”

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Don't look at my wheelchair! The plasticity of longlasting prejudice

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The use of a wheelchair immediately and profoundly affects how a person is perceived. However, our findings highlight the dynamic nature of perceptions of social identity, which are not only sensitive to personal beliefs, but also highly permeable to intergroup interactions. Having direct contact with people with disabilities might foster positive attitudes in multidisciplinary health care teams. Such interventions could be integrated into medical education programmes to successfully prevent or reduce hidden biases in a new generation of health professionals and to increase the general acceptance of disability in patients.

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“…If inclusion as a philosophy is being advocated, then it would seem that children with disabilities should also not be excluded (whether intentionally or not) from participating in research. Recent Australian studies have included adults and young adults with disabilities as informants (Crisp, 2000;Lenney & Sercombe, 2002), and there has been a focus on issues surrounding the family when a child has a disability, such as financial strains (Bain, 1998), social isolation (Cant, 1992), and the perspective of parents, teachers and therapists regarding the social experiences of children (Baker & Donelly, 2001). Despite the hive of activity in the UK and the policy desire for an 'inclusive community' in Victoria, there has been insufficient Australian research designed to include children with disabilities as informants.…”

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'I Value What You have to Say'. Seeking the Perspective of Children with a Disability, Not Just their Parents

Garth

Aroni

2003

Disability & Society

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The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child acknowledges the right for children to express opinions about issues affecting them and the right to have these views heard (Davis, 1998) . There has been an increase in the number of international studies including children as informants in research, but there is noticeably less published research including children as informants in Australia if they have a disability. Rather, there has been a reliance on parents/carers for insight into their child's experiences. In this article we present the results of a qualitative pilot study where we interviewed parents and their children who have cerebral palsy about their perceptions and experiences of communicationin the medical consultation. We found that the views of children and parents were different, further reiterating the need to seek the perceptions of children as well as their parents.

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“…Elton's projections onto the other framed them as being a soul mate or not, and friendly or unfriendly based on the others' attractiveness. These projections were based on how each participant observed the other using in the most part observable clues (Lenney & Sercombe, 2002). While the recommendations I made in that study identified projections of difference, this paper moves on to suggest how participants could have explored their projections so that inclusion might have been achieved.…”

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Inclusion, projections of difference and reflective practice. An interactionist perspective

Lenney

2006

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‘Did You See That Guy in the Wheelchair Down the Pub?’ Interactions across Difference in a Public Place

Cited by 25 publications

References 7 publications

Don't look at my wheelchair! The plasticity of longlasting prejudice

Don't look at my wheelchair! The plasticity of longlasting prejudice

'I Value What You have to Say'. Seeking the Perspective of Children with a Disability, Not Just their Parents

Inclusion, projections of difference and reflective practice. An interactionist perspective

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