It replaces the old “medical model” of disability by a social and human rights model based on the fact that it is society that “disables” persons with disabilities from exercising their ...

According to the social model, ‘disability’ refers to the ways that socially constructed barriers are disabling towards people with impairments or differences. In contrast, the medical model views a ...

“The Government must shift its focus from a medical model of disability to the social model, or risk doing real harm to an already marginalised community.” Her voice is echoed by others who ...

“Moving IDEA to the Department of Health and Human Services would promote a medical model of disability that could only lead to stigmatizing, segregating, and ‘othering’ children with disabilities,” ...