What is ‘disability’? Exploring the conceptions of internationally educated learners in a Canadian physical therapy bridging program

Chiang, Jessica L.; Kim, Diane; Siu, Carissa; White, Blaire; Zhu, Megan; Switzer-McIntyre, Sharon; Gibson, Barbara E.

doi:10.1080/09593985.2022.2113942

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“…The highest number of abstracts were found to cover medical-linked people and groups as allies (31 abstracts), using terms and phrases such as professionals [144][145][146][147][148][149][150], negative views of health professionals [151], rehabilitation professionals [152], rehab psychology [64], caregivers [153,154], social workers [155], social work misses the opportunity to be an ally [156], social work can support disabled people and their allies [157], patients [158,159], clinicians [159][160][161], practitioners [162,163], physicians [164,165], occupational therapists [166,167], physiatrists [168], physiotherapists [169], adapted physical education [170], medical community [171], and medical students [172].…”

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Coverage of Allies, Allyship and Disabled People: A Scoping Review

Wolbring,

Lillywhite

2023

Societies

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Disabled people face many problems in their lived reality, as evidenced by the content of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Disabled people are constantly engaged in activism to decrease their problems. However, disabled people cannot do all the work by themselves and need allies (who can be so-called non-disabled people or disabled people of a different background to other disabled people) given the many barriers disabled people face in being activists, given the precarious lived reality of many, and given the many problems in need of solving. At the same time, the expectations linked to being an authentic ally of disabled people pose many challenges and stressors and a danger of burnout for the ally. Therefore, the aim of this study was to better understand the academic coverage of allyship and allies in relation to disabled people in general, and specifically the coverage of challenges, stressors, and danger of burnout for allies of disabled people. To fulfill this aim, we performed a scoping review of academic abstracts and full texts employing SCOPUS, the seventy databases of the EBSCO-HOST and the Web of Science. Of the 577 abstracts, covering allies and allyship in relation to disabled people that were downloaded, 306 were false positives. Of the 271 relevant ones, the content of six abstracts suggested a deeper coverage of allyship/allies in the full texts. Within the full texts, two mentioned ally burnout and four mentioned challenges faced by allies. Among the 271 abstracts, 86 abstracts mentioned allies without indicating who the allies were, 111 abstracts mentioned specific allies with technology as an ally being mentioned second highest. Sixty-three abstracts covered specific topics of activism for allies. Furthermore, although searching abstracts for equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) related phrases, terms, and policy frameworks generated sixty-three abstracts, only three abstracts mentioned disabled people. Abstracts containing science and technology governance or technology focused ethics fields terms did not generate any hits with the terms ally or allies or allyship. Searching abstracts and full texts, phrases containing ally or allies or allyship and burnout had 0 hits, ally terms with stress* generated four hits and phrases containing anti-ableism, or anti disablism, anti-disableist, anti-disablist, anti-ablist, or anti-ableist with ally terms had 0 hits. Our findings show many gaps in the coverage of allies and allyship in relation to disabled people especially around the barriers, stressors, and burnout that authentic allies of disabled people can face. These gaps should be filled given that disabled people need allies and that there are many challenges for being an authentic disabled or non-disabled ally of disabled people.

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Coverage of Allies, Allyship and Disabled People: A Scoping Review

Wolbring,

Lillywhite

2023

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Physiotherapy’s necessity for ableism: reifying normal through difference

Breedt,

Barlott

2024

Disability & Society

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Intellectual Humility: How Recognizing the Fallibility of Our Beliefs and Owning Our Limits May Create a Better Relationship Between the Physical Therapy Profession and Disability

Schwab

Silva

2023

Physical Therapy

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Despite the many advancements over the history of the profession, physical therapy remains in a somewhat paradoxical relationship with disability. The physical therapy profession values disability as diversity but continues to focus on the normalization of body functions as the primary means to promote functionality in people with disability. This focus, consistent with a medicalized view of disability, may prevent physical therapists from empowering individuals with disability to explore alternative, yet effective, perceptual-motor strategies to achieve their functional goals. Additionally, recent research documents implicit, negative biases of physical therapists and physical therapist assistants towards people with disability, again consistent with the medicalized view that disability is the product of an imperfectly functioning body. Dominant underlying beliefs in any profession are often difficult to counter because they are so pervasive, and those beliefs can be reinforced and made stronger when challenged. The purpose of this Perspective article is to introduce physical therapists to a rising construct in psychology—intellectual humility—that may help to facilitate the profession’s relationship with disability. Intellectual humility is predicated on recognizing the fallibility of one’s beliefs and related practices. Intellectual humility is a promising construct for physical therapy to address the disability paradox and confront implicit attitudes that have served as the basis for many dominant ideas about disability. This Perspective synthesizes views and evidence from the behavioral and social sciences, philosophy, and critical disability studies to contribute to the ongoing evolution of the profession with respect to disability. Impact The development of enhanced intellectual humility in physical therapy may help to challenge long-held beliefs among physical therapists about disability—many of which are unnoticed, unquestioned, and difficult to counter.

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What is ‘disability’? Exploring the conceptions of internationally educated learners in a Canadian physical therapy bridging program

Cited by 3 publications

References 35 publications

Coverage of Allies, Allyship and Disabled People: A Scoping Review

Coverage of Allies, Allyship and Disabled People: A Scoping Review

Physiotherapy’s necessity for ableism: reifying normal through difference

Intellectual Humility: How Recognizing the Fallibility of Our Beliefs and Owning Our Limits May Create a Better Relationship Between the Physical Therapy Profession and Disability

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