In: Psychology
Briefly define either the social model of disability. does the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) fit a social model approach towards working with a person who has a disability? answer in 5 -6 full sentences
social model of disability says the following:
Disability is not an individual problem - society impairs the person not the person's impairment!
Disabled people cannot compete on equal terms with "healthy people" because society has created just too many barriers
Society needs to remove those barriers
Disabled people should have EQUAL rights to each and everything as how other people in society have.
Mindet of society needs a change not the individual.
A person with any sort of disability has the full rights to work with a normal not disabled person in every walk of life!