What is it about?
Based on the social model of disability, this article explains the driving forces of disability policy reform, and especially adopts the critical policy analysis approach to evaluate the revised education policy along with the rehabilitation policy of disabled people.
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Why is it important?
In 2017, two important disability policies were issued by the State Council of the People’s Republic of China. One policy is the revised ‘Regulation on the Education of Disabled Persons’ (first issued in 1994，recently revised in 2017), and the other is the ‘Regulation on the Prevention and Rehabilitation of Disabled Persons’ (first issued in 2017), which is the first specific health and rehabilitation policy for disabled people. These newest policies are the most critical cases for the analysis of the transformational disability policies in China.
Perspectives
Public participation may be the main way forward, especially with the growth of the disability movement in China. It is hoped that scholars pay more attention to the transformational disability policy in non-western settings.
Chao Zhang
Tsinghua University
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This page is a summary of: From isolated fence to inclusive society: the transformational disability policy in China, Disability & Society, September 2017, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/09687599.2017.1375246.
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