ABSTRACT
The Disability Discrimination Act (DoH 1995) proclaims ‘see the person’ rather than the disability, and there is no doubt that in Britain there is a culture that largely supports a social model of disability that places more importance on the individual than on their diagnosis, impairment or disability. This model has been ‘hard won’ by the advocates of disability rights, and this chapter will consider the means by which it was achieved. It is also the intention to communicate to the reader a clear picture of the children to whom this book refers, and to propose a user-friendly definition of the term disability.
