SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES AND DISABILITY

Sir Isaac Newton, a scientist with a disability, developed (among other things) the 3 gravitational laws. We can gear them toward disability studies as well.

Law #1: If the disability issues are not pushed or pulled, they will stay still. If no one is working on the disability issues and getting them in the open and getting other people and policy makers to care about them, nothing will change about the way disability is seen in our society or how it is – or isn’t – accommodated in the school system.

Law #2: Whichever way something is pushed is the way it will go. Therefore, pushing society toward disability recognition and acceptance will eventually bring about the desired result.

Law #3: If an object is pushed or pulled, it will push or pull equally in the opposite direction. Though this law seems somewhat contradictory, it can be applied to the forces that work to push disability issues the wrong direction. If this happens, those who have disabilities and those that care about them will fight just as hard, if not harder, to bring the issues back in the right direction.

References

http://scienceanddisability.wordpress.com/category/gravitational-laws-and-disability/

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