The Lived Experience of Disability Additional Details

The Lived Experience of Disability

Issued by Griffith University

Earners are exposed to the lived experience of people with a disability from the 'insider perspective'. Earners understand how disability is just one influence—sometimes significant, sometimes minor, but always fluid—in shaping the direction and quality of people's lives. Earners are committed to understanding the experiences of people with disabilities, in Australia and globally. Earners have the disability awareness to assist in providing best-practice experience and disability support.

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Skills

Earning Criteria

  • Earners have described and analysed some of the historical and contemporary views on disability
  • Earners have place the lived experience of people with disability at the centre of their understanding of disability by reading and critically reflecting on first person narratives (including documentary, literature, artwork, blogs, videos and websites)
  • Earners have critically evaluated the concepts and experiences of disability, difference and diversity in society
  • Earners have critically reflected on their understanding of the impact of some disabilities upon some people's lives, to better understand how those experiences might influence their access to education, housing, work, relationships, and where applicable, to rehabilitation and/or disability support services