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	Social model of disability - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Social Model of Disability proposes that barriers and prejudice and exclusion by society (purposely or inadvertently) are the ultimate factors defining who is disabled and who is not in a particular society.
		The social model implies that practices such as eugenics are founded on social values and a prejudiced understanding of the potential and value of those labelled disabled.
		The social model of disability is often based on a distinction between the terms 'impairment' and 'disability'.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Social_model_of_disability (953 words)

	In the Picture - About Us - Social Model of Disability
		The social model of disability says that disability is caused by the way society is organised, rather than by a person’s impairment or difference.
		Disabled people developed the social model of disability because the traditional medical model did not explain their personal experience of disability or help to develop more inclusive ways of living.
		Under the social model, the person would be supported so that they are enabled to pay rent and live in their own home.
	www.childreninthepicture.org.uk /au_socialmodel.htm (542 words)

	The Social Model of Disability Text
		The social model opposed the oppression inflicted by the medical model, shifting the blame of disability from the individuals with impairments to an unfair, and oppressive society.
		However the social model suggests it is society that causes the individual with these physical or psychological differences to be disabled.
		The social model of disability is starting to gain in popularity and influence, and Universities are improving in their teaching methods, facilities and support for neurologically diverse students.
	brainhe.com /TheSocialModelofDisabilityText.html (1819 words)

	Manchester City Council - the Social Model of Disability (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The medical model of disability encourages explanations in terms of the features of an individual's body, whereas a social model encourages explanations in terms of characteristics of social organisation.
		Under this model of disability, disabled people's inability to join in society is seen as a direct result of having an impairment and not as the result of features of our society which can be changed.
		The social model has been worked out by disabled people who feel that the individual model does not provide an adequate explanation for their exclusion from mainstream society - because their experiences have shown them that in reality most of their problems are not caused by their impairments, but by the way society is organised.
	www.manchester.gov.uk /disability/policies/model.htm (790 words)

	Medical model of disability - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The medical model of disability is a model by which illness or disability is the result of a physical condition, is intrinsic to the individual (it is part of that individual’s own body), may reduce the individual's quality of life, and causes clear disadvantages to the individual.
		The medical model of disability is often cited by disability rights groups when evaluating the costs and benefits of various interventions, be they medical, surgical, social or occupational: from prosthetics, "cures", and medical tests such as genetic screening or preimplantation genetic diagnosis.
		Some disability rights groups see the medical model of disability as a civil rights issue, and criticise charitable or medical initiatives that use it in their portrayal of disabled people, because it promotes a negative, disempowered image of people with disabilities, rather than casting disability as a political, social and environmental problem.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Medical_model_of_disability (307 words)

	Social Model
		The social model looks beyond a person’s impairment at all the relevant factors that affect their ability to be a full and equal participant in society.
		The social model of disability states that the solution is to rid society of these barriers, rather than relying on curing all the people who have impairments.
		This social model approach to disability that sees the problem as society’s barriers, rather than the person’s condition, allows disabled people to lift the blame from their shoulders and place it squarely onto society’s.
	www.southamptoncil.co.uk /social_model.htm (637 words)

	Penwith District Council - The Social Model of Disability
		Penwith District Council - The Social Model of Disability
		Disabled people can be led to believe that their impairments automatically prevent them from participating in activities.
		The social model has been worked out by disabled people who feel that the medical model does not provide an adequate explanation for their exclusion from mainstream society - because their experiences have shown that in reality most of their problems are not caused by their impairments, but by the way society is organised.
	www.penwith.gov.uk /index.cfm?Articleid=17717 (545 words)

	The Disability Rights Commission - How to use - The Social Model of disability (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Here the notion of discrimination is key, in other words, disabled people do not face disadvantage because of their impairments but experience discrimination in the way we organise society.
		The "Talk" video uses the social model of disability by identifying the ways in which the arrangement of transport, leisure facilities, public services and work excludes disabled people and how people's attitudes also demean and isolate.
		The main character in the video is a non-disabled man and the world is made up of disabled people who discriminate against him.
	www.drc-gb.org /citizenship/howtouse/socialmodel/index.asp (253 words)

	Inclusion Week: articles: The social model of disability
		The Disability Movement comprises those disabled people and their supporters who understand that they are, regardless of their particular impairment, subjected to a common oppression by the non-disabled world.
		This approach, referred to as the 'social model', suggests those disabled people's individual and collective disadvantage is due to a complex form of institutional discrimination as fundamental to our society as sexism, racism or heterosexism.
		Our fight for the inclusion of all children, however 'severely' disabled, in one, mainstream, education system, will not make sense unless the difference between the 'social' and the 'medical' or individual model of disability is understood.
	inclusion.uwe.ac.uk /inclusionweek/articles/socmod.htm (901 words)

	Social Model of Disability
		Social model of disability is a civil rights based approach to disability developed by disabled people in the 1970s and 1980s.
		The Social model of disability rejects the medical idea that the problem lies with the individual disabled person who is damaged, sick and in need of a cure.
		Instead it puts forward the view that it is the way society is run and organised that is the problem not the individual disabled person.
	www.daii.org /about/social_model_of_disability (199 words)

	Orpheus - Social Model of Disability (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Social Model of Disability is more than a theory at the Orpheus Centre.
		Social Model describes the way physical and attitudinal barriers creates disability; if barriers like steps, small print and negative assumptions did not exist, disability discrimination could be removed.
		Social Model is not just about the physical barriers that society puts up; it is about the attitudes people have to disability and negative language associated with disability.
	www.orpheus.org.uk /social_model.htm (168 words)

	SSIA - Social Model of Disability
		HOME -> GROUPS & ORGANISATIONS -> PHYSICAL & SENSORY IMPAIRMENT NETWORK (PSI) -> NETWORK REPORTS -> SOCIAL MODEL OF DISABILITY
		It is the Networks model accepted by ADSS Cymru.
		To view the full document please select from the right hand section.
	www.allwalesunit.gov.uk /index.cfm?articleid=1656 (57 words)

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