Describe two models of working with people with disabilities
What will be an ideal response?
Model of disability
• Biomedical model
• Steeped in the language of medicine, but silent in the language of social justice
• Disabilities are objective conditions that exist in and of themselves
• Disabilities are considered deficiencies residing within the individual who is totally responsible for the problem
• Environmental and functional model
• People carry a label with them
• The label may lead to some degree of social prejudice and discrimination
• Places blame for disabilities outside the individual
• Sociopolitical model
• Minority model
• Assumes that persons with disabilities are a minority group rather than people with pathologies
• Includes self-definition, the elimination (or reduction) of the prejudice and discrimination, rejection of medical diagnoses and categories, and the drive to achieve full equality and civil rights.
• Peer counselor model
• People with direct experience with disabilities are best able to help those who have recently acquired a disability
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