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A social justice scrutiny of the seating service experiences: what can we learn?

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conference contribution
posted on 2024-06-03, 09:03 authored by R Schmidt, Karen StagnittiKaren Stagnitti, Genevieve PepinGenevieve Pepin, Y Duncan
The paper presents the social justice findings from a study into the Australian  (wheelchair) seating service experience. As this study explored the insider's perspective, three participants' examples are shared (in the presentation) to demonstrate the benefits accorded to equality, equity and equal opportunity and the injustices experienced when denied; <br>- Brian* (pseudonym) a young Australian whose two accessories for his power chair changed his life.<br>- Donna* whose adult son was provided a heavy standard manual wheelchair instead of the power chair requested.<br>- Vince* a young self-employed businessman whose newly provided robust power chair is crimping his productivity.

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Location

Vancouver, Canada

Language

eng

Publication classification

E3 Extract of paper

Copyright notice

2014, University of British Columbia

Editor/Contributor(s)

Story M, Cooper D

Pagination

1-4

Start date

2014-03-04

End date

2014-03-07

Title of proceedings

ISS 2014 : Syllabus of the 30th International Seating Symposium 2014

Event

International Seating Symposium (30th : 2014 : Vancouver, Canada)

Publisher

University of British Columbia

Place of publication

Vancouver, Canada

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