MODELS OF DISABILITY

MODELS OF DISABILITY

• INTRODUCTION
• Models of disability are tools for defining impairment and ultimately,
for providing a basis upon which government and society can devise
strategies for meeting the needs of disabled people.
• Models of disability are essentially devised by people( normal people)
about other( disabled) people.
 FUNDAMENTAL PHILOSOPHIES

• It focuses disabled people as dependent upon society. This

can result paternalism segregation and discrimination.
• It focuses disabled people as customers of what society
has to offer. It leads to choice, empowerment, equality of
human rights and integration
 TYPES OF MODELS OF DISABILITY
• Individual model
• Social model
• Medical model
• Nagi’s model
• Quebec disability production process model
• Human rights model
• Professional model
• Transaction model
• Charity model
• Functional or economical model
• Rehabilitation model
 INDIVIDUAL MODEL OF DISABILITY

• The two fundamentals of individual models of disability

• The problems of disability lie within the individual
• The causes of disability stem from the functional limitations
or psychological disorders which are assumed to arise from
disability
MEDICAL MODEL
disability defined by the underlying medical condition
 SOCIAL MODEL
disability viewed as an artefact of the way society is organized
 FUNCTIONAL MODEL
not defining disability but how functionally interact with computer
environment( or context in question)
 DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MEDICAL MODEL
AND SOCIAL MODEL
• Medical model
• Sources of disability is located in bodily organs
• Solutions are curing treating and curing them to return normally
• Social model
• Due to physical and attitudinal barriers in the society
• Solution is that society should adjust itself to meet the needs and
aspiration of the disabled
 NAGI’S MODEL
• Disablement terminology
• Nagi’s used the term, pathology, pathophysiology,
functional limitation and disability to describe health status.
These term can be used to categorize clinical observations
systematically.
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