LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 21:1 January 2021
ISSN 1930-2940

Editors:
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         T. Deivasigamani, Ph.D.
         Pammi Pavan Kumar, Ph.D.
         Soibam Rebika Devi, M.Sc., Ph.D.

Managing Editor & Publisher: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.

Celebrate India!
Unity in Diversity!!

HOME PAGE

Click Here for Back Issues of Language in India - From 2001

BOOKS FOR YOU TO READ AND DOWNLOAD FREE!

REFERENCE MATERIALS

BACK ISSUES

  • E-mail your articles and book-length reports in Microsoft Word to languageinindiaUSA@gmail.com.

  • PLEASE READ THE GUIDELINES GIVEN IN HOME PAGE IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE LIST OF CONTENTS.

  • Your articles and book-length reports should be written following the APA, MLA, LSA, or IJDL Stylesheet.

  • The Editorial Board has the right to accept, reject, or suggest modifications to the articles submitted for publication, and to make suitable stylistic adjustments. High quality, academic integrity, ethics and morals are expected from the authors and discussants.

Copyright © 2020
M. S. Thirumalai

Publisher: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
11249 Oregon Circle
Bloomington, MN 55438
USA
Custom Search

A Review on Disability Studies from 2000 To 2020

Roshini. R., Dr. Rajasekaran.V. & Dr. Manimangai Mani

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to review some research articles related to disability that have been published so far. These reviews aim at throwing light on the changes in the perspective of the society, in any, towards disability and disabled people. The selected articles do not restrict themselves to any particular type of disability; rather, it gives an overview of disability discourses that have been discussed off late in academia.

Keywords: disability, construct, prejudices, perspectives

Introduction

Disability studies is a nascent field that focuses on the cultural, sociological, political, and historical perspectives of disability. How disability was perceived three decades earlier is totally different from how it is perceived now. Disability, for a long time, was seen as an inappropriate subject and had a lot of stereotyping and discrimination associated with it. It was habitually viewed under the medical concept that crippled the disabled people mentally and set them securely at the margin of society. The social model that was designed later was much more inclusive and, for the first time, introduced disability as a human-made or societal construct that erected barriers with their mindsets, ideas, or physical environments. It accentuated the failure of society to accommodate and accept people with differences. This model played a crucial role in shifting the community's attitude towards disability and disabled people and helping society evolve. This broader view of disability helped the government to develop policies and assistances to support disabled people and design a holistic community that was interdependent and respected and valued diversity. Until this domain gained momentum, disabled people were always delineated by the views of non-disabled people. The abled perspective of a disabled body can never be the ultimate truth, and more than often would be an unhealthy response to disability. The traditional abled voice always dismissed the disabled voice and never offered a chance to speak for themselves. We now have disabled people vindicating themselves, challenging the conventions that suppressed them and shoved down into the throats of the non- liberalists, the disabled person's prospect of disability, that was for a long time disbanded and unprecedented. With the inception of this phenomenal field of study, we have disability discourses that cherish disabled people and helps acknowledge that even appalling disability cannot hinder a happy and joyous life.

This is only the beginning part of the article. PLEASE CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE IN PRINTER-FRIENDLY VERSION.

Roshini. R., Research Scholar
Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai Campus
Chennai – 600127
Tamilnadu, India
roshini.r17@gmail.com

Dr. Rajasekaran, V.
Assistant Professor
Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai Campus
Chennai – 600127
Tamilnadu, India
rajasekaran.v@vit.ac.in

Dr. Manimangai Mani
Associate Professor
Department of English
Faculty of Modern Languages and Communication
Universiti Putra Malaysia
43400 UPM Serdang
Selangor, Malaysia
Custom Search
  • Click Here to Go to Creative Writing Section

  • Send your articles
    as an attachment
    to your e-mail to
    languageinindiaUSA@gmail.com.
  • Please ensure that your name, academic degrees, institutional affiliation and institutional address, and your e-mail address are all given in the first page of your article. Also include a declaration that your article or work submitted for publication in LANGUAGE IN INDIA is an original work by you and that you have duly acknowledged the work or works of others you used in writing your articles, etc. Remember that by maintaining academic integrity we not only do the right thing but also help the growth, development and recognition of Indian/South Asian scholarship.