Theorists
These theorists offer four stages or phases for their model of disability identity development for college students with physical disabilities.
Who are Forber-Pratt and Argon?
This category accounts for feelings of shared experience, commonality, or collective culture among disabled individuals.
What is common identity?
The final stage where a disability is seen in a positive light and the student may engage in advocacy or activism
What is Acceptance?
Kubler Ross and Kessler's five stages of grief end at Forber-Pratt and Aragon's first phase.
What is acceptance?
Forber-Pratt and Aragon named the stages in their model this.
What are phases?
This scholar proposed a three-stage model of passive awareness, realization, and acceptance.
Who is Gibson?
Compared to "pride" or "immersion" movements, this category centers on reclaiming the body and legitimizing one's lived experience.
What are empowering identities?
In this stage, the individual’s medical needs are met, but the person has no role model, is taught to deny social aspects of disability, avoids attention, and avoids associating with other disabled individuals.
What is Passive Awareness?
In this phase, individuals develop a sense of community.
What is the relationship phase?
Davidson and Henderson's "sensemaking clusters" could also be called this.
What are repertoires?
This theorist proposed a disability-identity framework centered on four types of integration.
Who is Gill?
Johnstone identified this category when an individual's disability intersects across multiple domains such as race, class, gender, and sexual orientation.
What are complex identities?
"Why me?" is a common question for students in this stage as they begin to see themselves as having a disability.
What is Realization?
Students internalize the core values of disability culture in this phase.
What is the adoption phase?
Johnstone organized his disability identities into the these.
What are catagories?
This theorist took an ecological approach with his six categories of disability identity.
Who is Johnstone?
This approach to disability identity examines a person’s relationship with the world and how others perceive them.
What is an ecological approach?
This emotion could cause a student to revert from acceptance to realization
What is anger?
Students in this phase integrate core values of the disability community to become leaders and role models in the campus disability culture.
What is giving back to the community?
Gibson called it a superman complex. Johnstone called it this.
What is overcompensating?
These two researchers provide four clusters or repertoires in their model
Who are Davidson and Henderson?
Johnstone observed that Deaf culture fits into this category by centering linguistic and social bonds instead of rehabilitation.
What are identities that shift the focus away from disability?
DAILY DOUBLE!!
What is a superman/woman complex?
These are the core values of the disability community.
What are independence and social justice?
Segregationists called it separate but equal. For people with disabilities, it is called this.
What is accessible?