The way many people view disability forces those living with it to work within the limitations of a world not designed for ...

Jarrod Marrinon says the source of negative attitudes about disability is people with disabilities themselves. He says it's time to leave the medical model of disability in the doctor's room and ...

Other models of disability have emerged alongside the social and medical model including the human rights model, which emphasises the equal rights of people with disability and acknowledges there ...

The medical model of disability suggests that the most important aspect of life for a person with a disability is their medical treatment and how that person adjusts and adapts to that medical ...

I'm afraid you've misunderstood what the Social Model and Medical Models are about. You're right to say that the difficulties you face in life have a combination of medical and social causes, to ...

The need for the social model of disability to replace the medical model has been called for by disability scholars for decades. 2 – 4 Furthermore, it has been emphasized that the social model and ...

Nope, I wholeheartedly embrace the Medical Model of Disability as well. I don't see why the two models can't be complementary. Granted, I don't think the Medical Model is always applicable to ...