Discuss The Difference Between The Social Model And Medical Model Of Disability

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1.3 Critically analyse the difference between the social model and medical model of disability and how each model affects the provision. Medical model of disability is defines as the disability to be a medical problem. They concentrate on the disability rather than the child and young person’s individual needs. Each of the disabled children and young people are labelled according to their impairment or differences. The children and the young people will have medical treatment to eradicate the problem or they are excluded from the ‘normal’ society and will have a solitary life at their home or specialised institution where they cannot have a quality of life but just their basic needs are met. Their educational needs and developments will…show more content…
It is focus on the barriers that disable people have in the social environment. The people’s attitude towards the disabled child or young person. The people without prior notification, assume that all disabled children and young people are pitiful, incapable, fearful and childlike. Also, they believed that the disabled children and young people have nothing to offer the normal society when they grow up. In the environment, the disabled had only a limited access to the buildings and public transports. The roads had poor maintenance and lights; signs with complex words and small prints. Therefore, a disabled person unable go outside his/her house without the need of a support. Disable people did not have the same rights as normal citizens. The employers used to turn them down. The parents were unable to send the children to normal school which was near to their home and they had to send the children to specialist schools. These kinds of barriers are called institutional barriers. The social model concentrate to eradicate the barriers. It believe that if the barriers are no longer existed then the

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