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Edited by Deborah Judah, Friday, 9 Sep 2011, 10:47

This is my list:

Medical: this is the WHO definition of disability. People with disability are seen as a problem and have to change to fit in. This is also know as the individual or Rehabilitation model.

Expert or Professional Model of Disability: a traditional response to disability issues and can be seen as an offshoot of the medical model. Professionals follow a process of identifying the impairment and its limitations and try improve the position of the disabled person. This is authoritarian and puts the person with disablitly in a passive position. This is an offshoot of the medical model.

Social: Disability is caused by barriers that society puts in place; either attitudes of other people of the structure of the environment. Barriers need to be removed so people with disability have the same opportunity as everyone else. This model emphasises the responsiblity of the indvidual with a disability.

Empowering: A person with a disability (or their family) to decide the course of their treatment and what services they wish to benefit from. The professional is a service provider whose role is to offer guidance and carry out the client’s decisions.

Charity: People with disability are helpless and in need of care.

Economic: Defines disability by a person’s inability to participate in work. It also assesses the degree to which impairment affects an individual’s productivity and the economic consequences for the individual, employer and the state. Such consequences include loss of earnings for and payment for assistance by the individual; lower profit margins for the employer; and state welfare payments. This model is directly related to the charity/tragedy model.

Administrative: This model puts people in categories of disability so that they can be assessed, usually for benefits or compensation.  There is an assumption that people with disabiliy need specialist services to help them and that they cannot solve the problems themselves.

Moral: Disability is a result of the sins of the person or their parents.

Legitimacy Theory: People are put into "groups" based on political reasons and which can perpetuate segragation.

This is the website I used for some of the definitions:

http://www.disabled-world.com/definitions/disability-models.php#ixzz1XRgKxm45

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