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- Title
Constructive Functional Diversity: a new paradigm beyond disability and impairment.
- Authors
Patston, Philip
- Abstract
This article presents a more dynamic and constructive paradigm than the current dominant ones (for example medical or social models), to describe and change the impact of impairment and disability. The reflections contained are inspired by personal and professional frustration with the existing polarized ideology of human function, which fails to adequately describe the diversity of physiological and psychosocial function amongst people. It aims to provoke and inspire dialogue about our current paradigm of human function in relation to value and capacity.
- Publication
Disability and rehabilitation, 2007, Vol 29, Issue 20-21, p1625
- ISSN
0963-8288
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1080/09638280701618778