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The Models of Disability
This sees disabled people as passive receivers of service, and the impairment as being the problem. This results in a society that segregates and separates, creating "special" facilities away from community life.
In the view of the Social Model, the disabled person is an active fighter for equality, working in partnership with allies, to create a society which is truly inclusive. All of the work of Circles Network is based on the Social Model of disability. |
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The Medical Model is
the traditional view of disability.
The Social Model sees the person as disabled by society. In this
view, the impairment is not in itself a problem, even though it may produce a
need for a different set of living requirements. Rather, society's insistence on
segregation in education and services, and the inaccessibility of things such as
transport and buildings results in a general prejudice against an integrated
community life for disabled people.