[Are we pushing the disabled intellectually into a ghetto? (AUTHOR'S TRANSL)].
Disabled people not only encounter barriers in their physical environment (in the form of steps which social rehabilitation is making efforts to level, remove or overcome through ramps) but also in the intellectual and emotional fields (in the life and thinking habits of our society, in expressions, song texts, etc.) i.e. basic expressions which seem to be applicable to the lives of the non-disabled but which prevent the disabled's access to life in the community. The examples given are: "What you are depends on what you have", "the world is beautiful", "everything will turn out all right". These expressions are, at least, as detrimental to full integration as the steps at the entrance to the post-office. The elimination of these sayings would not be beneficial to the disabled alone, but to all people: our life would become more honest and less strained. Phrases of the Biblical Message serve as the example for a thinking model which could give the impetus to a common learning process of tension release. Efforts to lessen the restraint (that is to correct the cited expressions) are called "weltanschauliche Rehabilitation", but whether this should rather be understood as a part of social rehabilitation or its parallel is a question which still remains unanswered.
D001633:Bible; D006233:Persons with Disabilities; D004644:Emotions; D006801:Humans; D008606:Mental Processes; D012046:Rehabilitation; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D012917:Social Adjustment; D012934:Social Isolation
Drängen wir die Behinderten geistig ins Getto? Uberlegungen aus theologischer Sicht zur Notwendigkeit einer weltanschaulichen Rehabilitation