Taking handicap into account: Systemic features

Abstract

Because of many features of handicap, such as the number of actors and interactions, the complexity of the field, handicap must be considered from a system point of view, and dealt with as any system. That makes it possible to build a comprehensive response to the question of the inclusion and full citizenship of people with disabilities, better than some fragmentary solutions often proposed. The paper emphasizes relationships inside the disability field and external relationships with the environment, namely valid people in everyday life and workfield; the consideration of those external relationships leads to the compensation of handicap for a better accessibility to buildings, transports, care, communication, and soon; unexpected spin-offs of that compensation on the whole of population can be observed.