Elaina Richards’s Reviews > Accessible America: A History of Disability and Design > Status Update
Elaina Richards
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“Therapy routines that emphasized adaptation to existing technologies acknowledged that disability was defined in part by the built environment…Rusk suggested, disabled people could use available materials to navigate daily lives in an inaccessible society. Indeed, he argued doing so was a crucial part of their psychological rehabilitation”
— Apr 04, 2024 01:04PM
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Elaina Richards
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“…defined design in terms of limited resources, reminding disabled people at every turn that they faced an uphill path to inclusion, and shying away from any kind of design that might be seen as excessively accommodating” -on the contributions of Rusk and Nugent to the language and scope of accessible design
— Apr 04, 2024 01:28PM
Elaina Richards
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“the piecemeal allocation of individual prosthetics (including “prosthetic” cars and houses), without attention to public aspects such as streets, sidewalks, or transportation, created a similar dynamic of “deserving and undeserving” citizenship between disabled veterans and the disabled population as a whole.”
— Apr 04, 2024 12:34PM
