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Telling about something that you do not really know: blind people are talking about vision!
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Date
2017-01-01
Author
Koca-Atabey, Mujde
Öz, Bahar
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In Turkey, the laws which define disability have become increasingly harsh, and require disabled people to be assessed in order to determine how disabled' they are. For blind people, as for other disabled people, these assessments have real consequences. This article aims to discuss an appealing piece that arose during a project, which has bearing on how disabled people tend to answer these questions. The participants are legally blind adults. We, as sighted researchers, asked totally blind individuals to describe their vision. Interestingly, they all answered this question without hesitation. The paradoxical nature of this question was only realized during the analysis. We requested the participants to talk about something they do not really know. This might be a reflection of our over-visualized world and might be due to our subtle prejudices. This type of questioning not only has implications for research, but also for assessments of disability in Turkey.
Subject Keywords
Subtle prejudices
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Talking about vision
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Disability assessment
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Turkey and disability
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Blindness
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Disability experience
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/41252
Journal
DISABILITY & SOCIETY
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2017.1345210
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Department of Psychology, Article