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OCCP1102: Perspectives on Disability and Participation
2025 unit information
How we understand and describe disability has a profound impact on individuals. Different ideological, theoretical, and empirical approaches can enhance or undermine opportunities for people with disability to lead fulfilling lives and actively participate in their communities. This unit delves into the ableist psycho-socio-cultural assumptions that have influenced our perceptions of disability over time and have shaped government and private sector law, policy and practice and led to discrimination, exclusion, violence and neglect. It takes a deep dive into models and theories of disability that have grounded the disability rights movement. It examines evidence-based approaches to describing and classifying individual and public health about disability and considers how uncritical use of such classifications dehumanises and disempowers people. It takes a strengths-based approach to disability, reflects on concepts such as post-traumatic growth, the positivity myth, and the dignity of risk, and listens to indigenous understandings of disability. Finally, the unit introduces ethical principles that should inform the delivery of health services to people with disability.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Medicine and Health
| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Participation Sciences |
| Credit points | 6 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Demonstrate a coherent understanding of contemporary approaches to disability from a health perspective
- LO2. Demonstrate critical thinking by revealing questions, issues and problems that arise from different disability standpoints in health
- LO3. Analyse attitudes and values that underlie different disability approaches in health and consider these in relation to your own identity, ethics and opportunities to influence
- LO4. Identify how cultural competence can contribute to engaging productively, collaboratively and openly in disability with diverse groups and across cultural boundaries
- LO5. Identify how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People’s culture, family and connection to Country influences disability, participation and health
- LO6. Solve problems by applying knowledge of disability and health in a manner that is person-centred, sensitive to context, informed by scholarship and evidence-based
- LO7. Use in-person, online, verbal, written, structured and unstructured communication methods to convey your disability expertise from a health perspective
- LO8. Demonstrate skill in the preparation and execution of self-directed learning plans that deepen and broaden your knowledge, confidence and competence in disability from a health perspective
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Semester 2 2025
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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