Explain The Medical Model Of A Disabled Person

Under the medical model of disability disabled people are defined by their illness or medical condition. It views disabled people as needing to be cured or cared for, and justifies the way in which disabled people have been excluded from society in the past. The disabled person is the problem, and this shapes society view of disabled people. Being viewed in this way can make someone with a disability feel as though they are a failure in society and they would be given a diagnosis and label. For example; the main focus of a child with Downs Syndrome would be their impairment rather than the child themselves, they would then be assessed for normalization which measures the norms of the child at a certain age. This would then be segregated and
The second response is Early Years Action/ School Action. This is when IEP’s would be put into place and additional support would be provided for the individual child, SENCO would also be contact for advice at this point, if a child then met the norms for their age this response would stop, if not the child would then go through the third stage. This stage is Early Years Action Plus, Staff and SENCO would now be supported by professionals and multi-agency teams, such as; speech therapist, psychologists, occupational therapists and so on. Practitioners follow such lawful acts with outside health workers as The Care Act 2014 requires local authorities to work together promote integration. The fourth stage is statutory assessment, this entails professional doing detailed reports and finally the fifth stage is a Statement of SEN. This is self-explanatory; SEN will make a statement arranging monitors, reviews and provision to help the individual child. The code of practice underpins principles that look to support, listen, play and include children regardless of sociological