Disability And Disability

“The medical model is presented as viewing disability as a problem of the person, directly caused by disease, trauma, or other health condition which therefore requires sustained medical care provided in the form of individual treatment by professionals. In the medical model, management of the disability is aimed at a "cure," or the individual's adjustment and behavioral change that would lead to an "almost-cure" or effective cure.” (Langtree, 2012)

The article “introducing disability Studies” by Ronald J. Berger was an eye opener in uncovering the past history of negative stigma associated with having a disability. Through history people have felt the need to stare at people with disabilities or to turn away in fear of maybe contracting the “disease”. This negative attitude was positively reinforced by ordinances such as the Chicago “ugly law” in which a person with physical deformities would have to pay a fine for simply being too “disgusting” looking to other citizens. This law was in place from 1880 to 1973, which is pretty recent in history. However there are positive glimpse in history when it came to uncovering and defining disabilities. Men like Leo Kanner and Asperger have dedicated

Both Garland-Thompson and Leadbeater are writing to describe how to communicate to an audience that is unfamiliar with the subject of differently-abled people. Garland-Thompson talks about how people with disability should be identified (4). For decades, people haven’t acknowledged what to call

Each time period had people with different views of disability and ways of treating those with disabilities. For example, early European colonists in 1492-1700 had a definition for disability that discussed productivity in regards to things such as class and gender. For children who were born with disabilities, the women were always blamed. For the time period of 1700-1776, slaves who had "undesirable bodies" were left to die. After that until 1865, African and indigenous women compared to white women were compared to animals and viewed negatively due to their features. Each time period had people who viewed disabilities in different capacities and took

In a debate between the social construction of disability and the medical model, I would side with social construction of disability. Prior to reading Chapter 3 of Rethinking Disability, I would have sided with the medical model since that was the only approach I was made aware of. In all of my studies, this is the method that I was shown. I was taught that if a student presents symptoms of having a disability, the teacher would include the parents and the student to undergo all of the steps such as, the examination, diagnosis, prescription, and follow up. We are so used to this process that we do not look beyond it to analyze what this really means. As stated in the chapter, after these students are diagnosed with all these labels, society

At the beginning of the semester, I wrote what I thought was the definition of disability. Disability is “a socially constructed idea that being different makes you unable to be useful or valued in society” I wrote. This answer, while not wrong, only scratched the surface of how I define disability now. As a disclaimer, I do not believe I now have a full or encompassing definition of disability, but I do believe I have a better one.

Throughout history both in the past and present many individuals who are living or who lived with a disability have been viewed as a burden to society. According to The Dimensions of a Disability Oppression (2010) by L.J Charlton several aspects are intertwined with disability oppression which is beliefs, politics and economics. Policy and the world system have a lot to do with how people see another person especially an individual with a disability because thanks to poverty and powerlessness are viewed as daily experiences in the life of someone living with a disability. In our society when it comes to differences we either ignore it and if we feel that it’s not dominant enough we start to think its subordinate compared to us. We are taught

The three colleges I chose to compare and contrast for disability services are Swarthmore College, Bowdoin College and Haverford College.

Social construction has proven to affect everybody’s life and creates stereotypes in society. Race and class have been the most outstanding social constructs in our society. According to sociologists, “human development is socially situated and knowledge is constructed through interaction with others” (McKinley, 2015). People were not born to distinguish others but it is the society who pass these ideas from generation to generation.

Congress passed an act in 1990, named the ADA, which Congress has provided guidelines that establish “broad nondiscrimination protection in employment, public services, public accommodations and services operated by public entities, transportation, and telecommunications for individuals with disabilities”. () The individual states under Title I of the act are placed under provisions of the federal government to follow through with disability accommodations. ()? While the national government has provided the guidelines for the states to follow under the ADA, that state carries policies out without funding, unfunded mandates. The federal government has guidelines for what a disabled person must qualify as and has dealt with many supreme

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Switched at Birth shocked the nation with its compellingly unique storyline and portrayal of a disabled main character. The show follows the intertwined lives of Bay Kennish and Daphne Vasquez who were accidentally placed in the wrong cribs at the hospital soon after they were born. Bay grew up in an upper-class family and attended a private school in the city. Daphne, on the other hand, grew up in a single parent family who struggled to make ends meet every month. Daphne contracted meningitis when she was three, leading to her gradual deafness. After meeting for the first time, the families realized that they must learn how to live their lives together despite their conflicting backgrounds (Switched at Birth S:1). Although this show demonstrates the “Disability drift and the disability hierarchy” myth, it effectively shows how people with disabilities can live their lives the same way as able bodied people and have the same opportunities to achieve their goals. The writers accomplish this by focusing heavily on the social model of disability, which highlights the idea that “disability is caused by the way society is organized, rather than by a person’s impairment or difference” (Scope par. 1). Viewing disabilities from this perspective educates viewers on the flaws in our society and how we should work together to change our communities.

People’s physical appearances has always been portrayed to fit in society’s “ideal” body image, but how can one’s body be perfect if it is made up of imperfections? Everyone desires this type of body image, however not many people are willing or able to put the time and effort into achieving this physique. But what is society’s image of the “perfect” body? Society has conformed our minds to portray what the body should be but not how it is meant to be. They are many different types of bodies that cannot physically achieve or choose to craft their body the way society claims they should.

Paul Dodenhoff wrote an article titles Five Faces of Oppression and in the article he uses Iris Marion Young’s concept that stated the five elements were oppression, exploitation, marginalization, cultural imperialism, and violence (Dodenhoff, 2016). From this article, there can be a new point of view gained on the idea that our culture has created its own hierarchies of superiority and inferiority (Dodenhoff, 2016). While this system is primarily unspoken, it still exists when you look at it from the stand point that there is the upper class, middle class, and lower class, in addition to the brains, the jocks, the populars, and the disabled. In the online article “Higher Education and Disability, the author discusses that there is a current trend that allows individuals with disabilities to be views as accepted and valued instead of negatively seen as a “special group” (Leake & Stodden, 2014, 399). In this same article they state, “This is a matter of concern in view of the widespread understanding in higher education that students who feel socially accepted are more likely to persist and graduate than those who do not, (Leake & Stodden, 2014, 403).” However, many individuals continue to treat the disabled unjustly because they are seen as the most inferior if the classes, but who are we to judge

The social model of disability says that disability is caused by the way society acts and is organised, rather than by a person’s impairment or difference. They believe society should change to meet the needs of the child/young person. It looks at ways of removing barriers that restrict life choices for disabled people. When barriers are removed, disabled people can be independent and equal in society, with choice and control over their own lives. An impairment is defined as