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18 wrz 2024 · The study describes views and conceptualizations of neurodiversity and models of disability in a predominantly White, well-educated sample of autism community members, mostly from wealthy Anglophone countries.
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.
This chapter identifies four broad models in the disability literature: The medical model: this model views impairment as a problem located in an individual. The human rights model: accords fundamental human rights to persons with disabilities.
A social justice approach to disability research not only documents that disparities exist but sheds light on how innate strengths of diverse populations can be bootstrapped along with making systematic and structural change to overcome those disparities.
This enabled us to identify and summarise a range of disability models, assess their potential contribution to public health research and policy, and appraise how well different definitions capture the diverse range of experiences associated with disability.
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 · 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.
