| Summary: | 博士 === 國立暨南國際大學 === 社會政策與社會工作學系 === 105 === This thesis aims to explore disability image of different life stages by the life stories of five male physical disabled respondents they grown up at a given time. The research investigated how persons with disabilities to know disabilities and how disabilities affected the way they know, such as disability related service usage, disability policy or measures, by exploring the respondents’ experiences of childhood, schooling, work, family, and intimacy in different life stages.
Research finding asserts that the way persons with disabilities know, experience, and explain what disability is are affected by the viewpoint of disability in their growth period. Disability image used in the thesis is the way people know and portrait disabilities. Disability image is to take shape preliminarily in the family. People with disabilities consider a negative image about self-value or self-image if their families consider karma is a cause of disability. Accordingly persons with disabilities consider themselves positive, valuable if disabilities is viewed as physical limitation and inconvenience by the families. With the opportunity to exposure to other persons with disabilities or different disability interpretation, persons with disabilities will have chance to adjust and accommodate the disabilities image they originally thought. persons with disabilities change according to the transformation of disabilities image and could have constructed a more active and more positive disability image.
In additions, disability policy and measures has dominated the formulation and construction of disability image. As we examine the different life issues, we will see the degree to which different disability image perspectives has been applied. For example, persons with disabilities were then to be perceived as work valuable and profitable in one way and should not have equal rights alongside their intimacy lifestyles in another.
The research suggestions here included have been taken from the manuscript of five men with mobility disabilities. It is better to gain an understanding of disability issues as early as possible. Not only persons with disabilities should know there are different disability categories and welfare services to provide the person with the appropriate skills to rehabilitate or deal with it, but also there are different theories and model views disability as a consequence of environmental, social and attitudinal. However, supported by construction of self-value and social role, those who can control their bodies are seen as positive disabilities image. The research’s limitations arise from its failure to emphasis certain aspects of disability, including ethnicity and gender.
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