Public Support for Rehabilitation Programs: The Analysis of U.S. Disability Policy
- 1 January 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Disability, Handicap & Society
- Vol. 1 (2) , 121-137
- https://doi.org/10.1080/02674648666780131
Abstract
Although political scientists have displayed relatively little interest in research on disability thus far, a brief review of major issues in rehabilitation in the United States indicates the contribution that policy analysts can make to the study of this subject. This opportunity is enhanced by a recent shift in the definition of disability from a medical orientation, which emphasizes functional impairments, and from an economic approach, which stresses vocational limitations, to a socio-political perspective, which regards disability as the product of interactions between individuals and the environment. The latter definition has become the foundation for a new ‘minority-group’ model of disability that is challenging the traditional ‘functional-limitations’ paradigm and that might profitably be utilized in future research.Keywords
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