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Ambivalence about disability: Why people with mild learning difficulties who are looking for employment may not identify as disabled (2022)
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Tarlo, R., Fyson, R., & Roberts, S. (2024). Ambivalence about disability: Why people with mild learning difficulties who are looking for employment may not identify as disabled. Disability and Society, 39(3), 548-570. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2022.2073199

UK government policies over several decades have sought to actively encourage disabled people to take up paid employment, most recently by focusing on the ‘gap’ between employment rates of disabled and non-disabled people. These policies implicitly a... Read More about Ambivalence about disability: Why people with mild learning difficulties who are looking for employment may not identify as disabled.