Dependence, Independence and Normality

‘Professionals working in services for disabled people, doctors, nurses, social workers, teachers, therapists and so on, often use the promotion of independence as a central reference point for both theory and practice in their work...although it should be remembered that human service professionals often can, and do, work in alliance with disabled people to achieve emancipatory ends, it is clearly the case that many disabled people experience this professionalized approach to the issue of independence as irrelevant and oppressive’

Colin Goble

Disabling Barriers – Enabling Environments p 42-43