Redefining disability as developmental and relational: the phenomenological congruence and flexibility approach
Joshua Sealy (Macquarie University) proposes a new philosophical framework called 'phenomenological congruence and flexibility' for redefining disability and pathology. The approach argues that disability should be understood as both developmental and relational, challenging the view that conditions like deafness are merely dysfunctions. Drawing on the deaf community's perspective that deafness is a 'difference' rather than a disability, Sealy's framework emphasizes how phenomenological experience and environmental fit shape what we consider pathological or disabling.
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A popular sentiment in the deaf community is that deafness is not a disability, it is a 'difference', with deaf cultures all over the world acting as sources of various values and habits associated with sight, touch, sign language, and solidarity.
On the other hand, deafness is hearing impairment, a dysfunction of
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