The Social Model: Attitudinal Barriers

Task 3
“The Social Model was devised by disabled people to explain the barrier to equality which they experience” (Children in Wales)
Social model is a more acceptable model as it states that society is the problem rather than the person’s impairment an example is if a building doesn’t have a ramp the social model says that one should be built so the disabled people can do things for themselves; without barriers they are able to do things independently so they don’t have to rely on the people around them.
Social and Medical model are different as one says that society is the problem while the other says that the person with the disabilities must adapt to the environment around them; the Social model thinks that barriers need to be identified
Institutional barriers are the lack of good anti discriminative legislation which can exclude disabled people; transport or education which does not provide for people with
Current attitudes towards disabled people. Scope)
Beliefs are picked up by people by many different sources whether that be from media, internet or from the people around them, these belief can either form a positive or negative attitudes and this will be determined by what they are hearing in the world around them; they need the opportunity to learn about disabled people because it gives them to chance to talk to them and learn that they are no different from themselves as they all have dreams and hopes.
School have the best opportunities to teach children about the treatment of disabled people as they will be able to show them a positive attitude from a young age, but they will also be given the opportunity to me disabled people so they can build their own opinion and attitude towards them. Evidence shows that a large amount of the population believes that disabled people are less capable than non-disabled