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Models of Disability

The document outlines different models of disability: - The charity model views disability as a deficit and sees disabled people as passive recipients of care. It focuses on impairments. - The medical model frames disability as a personal, medical problem and focuses on cures. It ignores the social aspects of disability. - The social model defines disability as caused by social and environmental barriers, not just by impairments. It values the social experience of living with a disability. - The economic model assesses how impairments impact productivity and the economic consequences for individuals and society. - The human rights model aims to ensure equal rights and access for disabled people within their communities.

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Models of Disability

The document outlines different models of disability: - The charity model views disability as a deficit and sees disabled people as passive recipients of care. It focuses on impairments. - The medical model frames disability as a personal, medical problem and focuses on cures. It ignores the social aspects of disability. - The social model defines disability as caused by social and environmental barriers, not just by impairments. It values the social experience of living with a disability. - The economic model assesses how impairments impact productivity and the economic consequences for individuals and society. - The human rights model aims to ensure equal rights and access for disabled people within their communities.

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Models of Disability

DISABILITY PROBLEMS
Problem are situated in individuals

Sheltered Workshop
Physiotherapist
Sensory Impairment Physical Impairment Occupational Therapist
Speech
Therapist Rehabilitation
Center

Doctors Chronic Illness


Impairment Social Workers

Medical is the Learning Difficulties

Treatment Problem Special Schools

Mental Illness Educational


Special Transport Psychologist
Emotional Behavioral
Sympathy Difficulties Charity
INDIVIDUAL MODEL OF DISABILITY
“ Can`t walk , Is Passive or
talk, see, hear, dependent
read written info, “confined to
speak,” wheelchair”

Is a burden Is sick or Ill


needs care, help, Waiting for a cure,
services confusion between
illness and disability
MODELS OF DISABILITY

Charity Model
* The Charity Model sees people with
disabilities as victims of their impairment. Depending
on the disability, the disabled persons cannot walk,
see, learn, or work. Disability is seen as a deficit .
Persons with disabilities are not able to help
themselves and to lead an independent life.
* Person with disability is not an agent on
their own life but rather a recipient of care, cure and
protections.
Special Schools, Special vans and Rehabilitation and Passive beneficiaries of
Charity
Focuses on what is wrong with the person

Can`t read or
Can`t walk
write

Requires
Needs
Medical
Therapy
Intervention

Requires
Sheltered
Can`t Work Home
Medical Model
* Person with disability purely as someone with a
part of the body or mind which is not working and need to be
fixed or cured
*Disability as personal problem
* Focus on disease and diagnosis
* Power in hands of medical professionals
* Ignores social experience of disability
This is a diagram of the traditional Medical Model of Disability, which the Social Model
developed to challenge
Is housebound

Needs help and cares Confined to a wheelchair

The problem is
Has fits Can`t walk
the Disabled
person

Is sick Looking for a cure Can`t get up steps


Can`t walk

Can`t see or hear


Social Model
* People are disabled society aim to remove barriers
*Values social experience of disability
* Society disables people
* Solutions/ change as social responsibility
SOCIAL MODEL
Economic Model
* Under this model, disability is defined by person`s
inability to participate in work. It also assesses the degree to
which impairment affects an individual`s productivity and the
economic consequences for the individual, employer and the
state
* Values based on productivity
Human Rights Model
* Goal: “ Ensure the equal, effective,
enjoyment of all human rights, without discrimination by
people with disabilities”
* Persons with disability should have
access to everything within their society and community on
an equal basis with others
LOVE AND ACCEPTANCE

PREPARED BY: VANESSA S. CORBITA

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