Therefore, to protect them, they are kept away from mainstream society and excluded. * Rights: The medical model of disability believes that medical professionals know best. This means that therefore the rights of the individual are seen as unimportant and are pushed aside to follow the opinion of the medical professionals. * Autonomy: Decisions in health and social care services for people with disabilities are usually made by carers or medical professionals, as they feel they know what is best for the individual. Therefore, autonomy is not an important principle in the medical model.
Culture is the shared ideas and values of a group of people. Deaf people, like hearing people have their own culture, separate from the culture of hearing people. The American Deaf culture, like all cultures has four components: language, behavioral norms, values and traditions. For the Deaf culture, vision plays a major role in all four components, since deaf people rely strongly on their vision to communicate and gather information. The language of the deaf community is ASL.
As for values, there are many that could be closely similar to that of hearing people, while some could be completely different. There are a few of the aspects of a deaf person’s way of life are aspects that would never normally be used by hearing people, such as the importance of deaf schools over mainstreaming schools, cochlear implants, ASL being the dominant language, learning more than one language rather than solely English, and deaf clubs over mainstreaming social activities, interpreters and sign language, although some hearing people choose to learn sign language, and occasionally even become interpreters. Relying on body language are examples of values of the deaf culture that can also be used by hearing people, but are not used as much by them. Some of these values are used almost as much by hearing people as they are by the deaf, sometimes just as much, and sometimes even more. These include vibration alerting systems, video chatting, captioning for movies or television shows, and texting.
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.
The Social Model of Disability Everyone is an individual. The person may have different needs and living requirements Disabled people have arrived at a different ‘model’ to help understand the situation. They are challenging people to give up the idea that disability is a medical problem requiring ‘treatment’, but to understand instead that disability is a problem of exclusion from ordinary life. This is what is known as the ‘social model’ of disability, requiring a change in society’s values and practices in order to remove the barriers to participation that can discriminate against disabled people. The disability experienced is often caused by the approach taken by society/individuals, which take no account of people with impairments and their associated needs, thereby excluding them from mainstream activity.
In essence, this model focuses more on the negative attributes of people with disabilities. For instance, it highlights that people need caring for, have trouble going out, and things which suggest their disabilities are the problems. Also, non-disabled people decided what kinds of lives people with disabilities should have in terms of, what school they should go to, where they should live, or whether or not they should be employed. As we can see, people with disabilities had little control over their lives according to the medical model approach. In the 1960s, people with disabilities were mostly shut away meaning that there was no real need to make buildings wheelchair accessible.
There was a need to try and cure people with disabilities. This model focuses more on the negative attributes of people with disabilities, it highlights that there is a need for care, that people struggle to go out and other things which suggest that disabilities are problems. People with disabilities are left with very little control over their lives according to this approach. All decisions about education, housing and employment etc… were taken out of their hands and decisions were made for them. This invariably meant that people with disabilities were mainly shut away in institutions with no real need for society to change at all.
The caregivers and their patients each bring their own learned patterns of language and culture. .If ta lack of cultural competency is perceived by the patient, the communication between them could be an issue. For example a patient who has limited English proficiency could easily misunderstand the instruction of a medication dosage, or could not understand what their medical condition is, like what they are restricted to do or eat. As a consequence the health provider could be sued by the patient’s families in case of death, or medical emergency, alleging lack
At the disability and review office where I currently work at, I often come across cases involving speech disorders and, therefore, this regulation could not have come at a better time. This is owed to the fact that a lot of stigmatization occurs against people with such disorders. 2. Describe the proposal/change The proposal contains new set of rules that would be used to assess language and speech disorders that affects both adults and children under the titles II and XVI of the Social Security Act. It weighs upon the addition of fresh body scheme in the Listings of Impairment under appendix 1to subsection P of the 404 rules for these disorders.
LD201 LD201 1.1 White paper 2001 Care Standards act 2000 Disability discrimination act 1995 and 2005 Mental capacity act 2005 Human rights act 1998 Disabled persons Act 1986 1.2 The legislation and policies influence the day to day experiences of individuals and their families by: Providing gudance, rules and regulations for support workers, families and carers that allows them to provide consistant care and support for vulnerable individuals, whilst protecting the individuals rights, promoting independance and protecting them from harm or abuse. (LD 201.2) Understand the nature and characteristics of learning disability. 2.1: A learning disability means that its harder for an individual to learn, understand and communicate than it is for others. 2.2: Before: Alcohol & or drug abuse, genetic (passed down from mother or father and on a rare occasion may jump generations so be from grand mother & or grand father), trauma (slips, trips & falls). During: Lack of oxygen to the brain (strangulation from the umbilical cord, stuck in birth canal), a stressful or traumatic birth.