71. There is also little point in outlawing employment discrimination if the disadvantage and discrimination experienced by disabled people in other walks of life are not redressed.
72. Disabled people are offered employment consistent with their capabilities.
73. Where Disabled people are involved, almost every activity of life seems to have to be justified in terms of its medical and therapeutic benefits.
74. The approach to Disabled people of the arts community does not escape this conditioning.
75. These overtones of differentness and specialism inhibit much of the mainstream arts community from working to include Disabled people and thus perpetuate a whole cycle of exclusion and presumption.
76. Art therapy is applied arbitrarily to Disabled people and has often been used less to benefit Disabled people and more to minimise disruption to the ablebodied world.
77. The over-whelming priority for disabled people is no different from that of non-Disabled people.
78. Discrimination against Disabled people, in the arts or other areas of life, creates experiences, needs and priorities which are qualitatively different from those of non-Disabled people.
79. Once again, this approach to involving disabled people in the arts is flawed primarily because disabled people have not been consulted about what is wanted.
80. Asking Disabled people produces a quite different approach.