Learning Objectives
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Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion of this module students will:

1. identify and define the primary components of the activity legitimacy theory;
2. articulate theoretical positions that have influenced classical and contemporary views of disability;
3. analyze how categorization of typical and atypical human activity, appearance and experience is generated and dynamic;
4. identify the relevant explanations for atypical activity;
5. examine the role of values in judging and defining the disability legitimacy of explanations;
6. describe how disability is differentially ascribed across professions and systems.
7. correlate the influence of values with service responses by the long-term care system.