Modern perspectives on disability

Abstract

More than a decade has passed since the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities entered into force in Spain, and the discussion regarding disability has now reached its greatest level of intensity within our country. Fortunately, there has been a change in the approach to disability: nowadays the focus lays on strengthening the autonomy of affected people —in order to provide them with the prominent role they have lacked for centuries— and avoiding standardised legal response to disability, where representation was systematically resorted to. Neverthe