Disability Studies centers the lived experiences of disabled people. It also emphasizes the role of the disability community in defining problems and evaluating solutions concerning disability experience, equity, access, and justice. The premise of disability studies is that our culture's construction of disability as well as legal, social and institutional practices concerning disability have real-life and often negative impacts on people with disabilities. Moreover, barriers to equity and inclusion are not indicative of individual cognitive or physical "deficits," but of a collective moral deficit within society as a whole. Yet, while disability representations, metaphors, narratives, historical developments, laws, and other social phenomena may create or maintain barriers, disability identities, communities, values and aesthetics may be positive, empowering, and change-making.

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