It creates low expectations and leads to people losing independence, choice and control in their own lives. They are disempowered: medical diagnoses are used to regulate and control access to social benefits, housing, education, leisure and employment. The medical model promotes the view of a disabled person as dependent and needing to be cured or cared for, and it justifies the way in which disabled people have been systematically excluded from society. The disabled person is the problem, not society. Control resides firmly with professionals as choices for the individual are limited to the options provided and approved by the 'helping' expert.
3. Equality and Diversity Policy and procedure. 1.2 This legislation and policies provides a framework to ensure that people with learning disabilities are treated with respect and dignity without violation of their civil and basic human rights. 2.1 The Department of Health, in Valuing People (2001), defines “Learning Disability” as: • Significantly reduced ability to understand new or complex information, to learn new skills • Reduced ability to cope independently which starts before adulthood with lasting effects on development. Learning Disabilities can also be defined as a variety of disorders that affect the acquisition, retention, understanding, organization or use of verbal and/or non-verbal information.
They protected characteristics are: * Age * Disability * Gender reassignment * Marriage and civil partnership * Pregnancy and maternity * Race * Religion or belief * Sex * Sexual orientation 2.explain how this legislation and policies influence the day to day experience of individuals with learning disabilities and their families Getting a job or education, traveling, going for a drink or to the cinema with friends are ordinary activities but for disabled people remain difficult to achieve. Disable people have the same fundamental rights as any other people. A learning disabilities is a life time impairment and usual is reducing the ability of the people to live independently. People with learning disabilities should have a support for their needs and this support is given by family and care workers. The
Unit 4222-261 Contribute to the support of individuals with multiple conditions and/or disabilities (SS OP 2.3) Outcome 1 Understand the impact of multiple conditions and/or disabilities of individuals 1.1 Patients with multiple conditions and/or disabilities have two or more disabling conditions that affect learning or other important life functions. These can be: * mental retardation, dementia * bad eyesight, blindness * hard of hearing, deafness * arthritis , paralised body/parts * etc 1.2 Multiple conditions usually have additional impacts on individuals’ well being and quality of life. A person with arthritis only can live at home with minimum help of a carer but elderly people who have arthritis and dementia in addition, for them it is safer to live in care home . Multiple conditions also require different kinds of medications which are not without side effects . This is also an additional impact on well being that patients have to live with.
E1- Explain the social model and the medical model of disability There are two different types of models of disability. The medical model of disability is seen as the disabled person/s as being the problem and is not seen as an issue to concern anyone other than the individual affected and their condition needs to be “fixed” for example in a childcare setting, if a child is a wheelchair user and the doorway is narrow, there wouldn’t be any thought of making adjustments to the door but the medical model would say the wheelchair is too big and is it the users problem. The medical model defines disability as“Impairment: any loss or abnormality of psychological, physiological or anatomical structure or function. Disability: any restriction or lack, resulting from impairment, of ability to performany activity in the manner or within the range considered normal for a human being.”(Grant Crason,2011) accessed 20/09/2013This model makes people with disability feel they are at faultmaking them feel different and unequal in the society they live in which could lead to stress and depression. The medical model puts the point forward that disabled people shouldn’t cause inconvenience for others and should help themselves and try harder and this may make them feel they cannot partake in social activities.
However, getting a job, an education, going for a drink or to the cinema etc remains a struggle for them. The legislation and policies that are in place are there to protect people with learning disabilities from discrimination. By promoting and enforcing the content of the legislation, policies and procedures, we can ensure that the individuals’ quality of life is improved and independence is promoted. Outcome 2. Understand the nature and characteristics of learning disabilities 1.
A learning disability affects the way a person learns new things in any areas of life. It affects the way they understand information and how they communicate. A learning disability means that it is harder for a child to learn, understand and communicate than it is for other children. A learning disability can be mild, moderate or severe. Some people with a mild learning disability can talk easily and look after themselves, but take a little longer than usual to learn new skills.
Unit 245 – Understand the context of supporting individuals with learning disabilities. 2.1A condition giving rise to difficulties in acquiring knowledge and skills to the normal level expected of those of the same age. 2.2Genetics, brain injury or damage, Down’s syndrome, complications at birth, Cerebral Palsy or meningitis. 2.3Medical – This is defined by the individuals disability, the medical diagnosis and promotes the view that the individual is dependant on society and excludes the individual from ‘fitting in’. Social – Developed by disabled people.
People with a disability are seen and said to be a personal problem to the family. This model is where dehumanization comes into play the most. The medical model is where the worse points of disabilities is bought out and shown as the important points of a situation. It also talks about how the disability can be fixed surgically or medically to help the person fit into the society better. With the medical model society doesn’t show any concern in trying to change things to help the person with disabilities.
175). With increased self-concept due to mainstreaming, improved interpersonal communication and relations for those with intellectual disabilities is particularly important and should be further researched and practiced in school settings. Self-concept, one of the three dimensions of “the self in interpersonal communication”, is the perception or image that someone has of oneself based on others' images of them, social assessments, cultural ideas, and his or her individual analysis’ and assessments. For those of typical populations (or those who do not have an intellectual disability), self concept usually varies from person to person given that everyone is different and perceives everyone differently. But for those who are considered in the “special population” (those with intellectual disabilities) often have a distorted self-concept.