person with disabilities and turn our attention to disabling environments.” Discuss with relevance to completing explanations of disability. Date: 14/03/13 Word Count: 1‚442 “We should stop focussing on the person with disabilities and turn our attention to disabling environments”. This can be done by focussing on the social and rights based models of disability. There are four main models of disability‚ these are; the charity model‚ the medical model‚ the social model and the
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an intensive change of attitudes towards disability (Kuodyte et al.‚ 2012). In the past‚ the medical model of disability was generally accepted. However‚ it has been successfully challenged by new disability studies that explore disability in social and cultural terms as a social construct (Titchkosky‚ 2000). The social model emerged as public reaction and criticism of the medical model. Specifically in the UK people with disabilities felt that medical model was too much focused on functional limitations
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Champion Equality‚ Diversity and Inclusion David Jubbs There are two models that link Equality‚ Diversity and Inclusion and the first one is Social Model of disability which views discrimination and prejudice as being embedded in today’s society‚ their attitudes and their surrounding environment. The Social Model focuses on who the adult is as a person not what their disability or diagnosis is and the focus is on how to improve the individuals life and empower them to be more independent in what
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E1 - Explain the ‘social model’ and the ‘medical model’ of disability. Even though there are several ‘models’ of disability that have been discussed and defined recently‚ two of the most frequently mentioned ‘models’ of disability are the ‘social’ and the ‘medical’ models of disability. The medical model of disability sees disability as a ‘problem’ that the disabled person has. Something that is to be treated‚ mitigated or even cured. It is not looked at as something that affects‚ or is the
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UNIT 503 1.1 Explain models of practice that underpin equality‚ diversity and inclusion in own area of responsibility. There are two main models which link with equality‚ diversity and inclusion. These are the social model of disability and the medical model of disability. (http://ddsg.org.uk/taxi/social-model.html) Shape Arts claim that ‘The Social Model frames disability as a social construct. Disability is created by physical‚ organisational and attitudinal barriers‚ which can
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learning disabilities Understand the nature and characteristics of learning disability Explain what is meant by ‘learning disability’? LD201 2.1 Give 3 examples of causes of learning disability LD201 2.2 1. 2. 3. What is the cause of learning disability for some of the people you support? What is the approx proportion of individuals with learning disability for whom the cause is ‘not known’? LD201 2.4 Understand the historical context of learning disability Services
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individuals with learning disabilities (LD 201) OUTCOME 1 Understand the legislation and policies that support the human rights and inclusion of individuals with learning disabilities. 1.1. Identify four legislation and policies that are designed to promote the human rights‚ inclusion‚ equal life chances and citizenship of individuals with learning disabilities National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990; Disability Discrimination Act 2005; Equality Act 2010; Disability Equality Duty 2006
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Agencies‚ ILO‚ UNESCO‚ and the WHO‚ as a "strategy within community development for the rehabilitation‚ equalization of opportunities‚ and social integration of all people with disabilities. CBR is implemented through the combined efforts of disabled people themselves‚ their families and communities‚ and the appropriate health‚ education‚ vocational and social services" (WHO‚ 1994). Institutional Rehabilitation provides excellent services to address the problems of individual disabled persons and
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CYP CORE 3.7 Understand how to support positive outcomes for children and young people. Name: Marcele Nyamekye Reflective Account Social‚ economic and cultural factors that impact on the lives of children and young people for example: factors like impact of being in the care system‚ living consistently in same parental home‚ relationship with parents or carer‚ attitude of parents or carer to education and a healthy lifestyle‚ poverty‚ poor housing‚ adequate/appropriate housing‚ level of access
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Nomadic Tribes People with disabilities were considered useless because they could not contribute to food gathering or to the wealth of the tribe. Nomads often left people with disabilities to die whenever the tribe moved to a new location. Many tribal cultures believed that disability implied possession by evil spirits. The Greeks sought rational explanations for disability‚ with insufficient medical science. They reached such conclusions as: epilepsy is a disturbance of the mind; people who are
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