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Disability models, particularly the social model of disability, have been pivotal in the history of disabled people’s political mobilisation, the formulation of disability-related law and policy and the development of interdisciplinary Disability Studies.
4 lip 2023 · This chapter discusses various definitions of disability including concepts such as impairments, activity limitations and participation restrictions, and the two predominate social structure...
1 kwi 2009 · In this paper, a broad, general overview of three models of disability is presented. These models are: the Biomedical Model, the Functional Model, and the Sociopolitical Model. No single model...
19 cze 2017 · Abstract. In three studies (N = 340) we examined the effects of medical versus social model representations of physical disability on awareness of structural discrimination and prodisability policy support among nondisabled persons. In all three studies, we found either an indirect (Studies 1 and 2) or full mediational effect of awareness of ...
17 sty 2022 · The human rights model of disability is described as the new disability model which evolved in the first decade of treaty monitoring. It corresponds with a new concept of equality that the CRPD brings to international anti-discrimination law called inclusive equality.
10 lis 2021 · This chapter critically engages with the underlying theories and approaches to disability that have formed the basis of disability studies since its inception. It starts with a brief historical overview of the social model of disability and its relationship to medical sociology.
15 maj 2019 · ABSTRACT. While eschewing an explicit definition, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) understands ‘disability’ primarily as the result of interactions between individually situated impairments and societally created barriers. This article draws on work in interdisciplinary disability studies to ...
