Models of Disability
Models of Disability
DISABILITY PROBLEMS
Problem are situated in individuals
Sheltered Workshop
Physiotherapist
Sensory Impairment Physical Impairment Occupational Therapist
Speech
Therapist Rehabilitation
Center
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
The problem is
Has fits Can`t walk
the Disabled
person