Critical
disability studies is a significant framework, which can be used to improve the
educational lives of people with disabilities. The information provided through
this blog highlights how CDS was applied to different experiences faced by
people with disabilities, which allowed for appropriate solutions to be
produced.
For
example, CDS emphasises how the dominant medicalised model of disability has
resulted in a lack of financial resources towards education, how there is a
need for the inclusion of people with disabilities within schools, and
indicates that it is essential for each case of disability to be considered as
unique as it allows for appropriate solutions to be discovered.
However,
CDS is only a framework and there is a need for the theory developed through
CDS to be implemented and put into practice. This will involve extensive
discussions between those who face the lived experiences of disability and
those in positions of power, and such discussions should result in policy
reform which will ensure the inclusion of people with disabilities within the
educational system.
