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What are the social and medical models of disability, and how do they differ?

What do you think of when you think of disability? Someone in a wheelchair? Someone who is blind and has a cane? Whatever they look like, their impairment means life can be harder for them. The fact ...
Psychology Today

Enabling Definitions of Disability

A woman walking past a man in a wheelchair, who is at the base of a staircase. Source: Viacheslav Yakobchuk / Adobe Stock In 1904, H. G. Wells published a short story titled, “The Country of the Blind ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

It's the socially created barriers that disable students, not the conditions they live with

Disability advocate and 2022 Australian of the year Dylan Alcott recently said "it's up to all of us in society to create a space where [people with disability] feel included". This is a good point, ...
University of Sheffield

Travelling from Goffman to the social model of disability and social constructionist approach to disability: My journey as a budding researcher with disabilities.

Kerri Heng is passionate about qualitative research in disability and mental health. A recent graduate of the Master of Arts in Sociology programme at Nanyang Technological University, her Master's ...
World Bank

Disability Inclusive Social Protection Across Europe and Central Asia

An estimated 15% of the world’s population experience some form of disability. Across Europe and Central Asia, persons with disabilities represent one of the largest segments of the population that ...