Social Model vs. Medical Model of Disability (explained/my opinion) | Molly Burke

MEDICAL MODEL VS SOCIAL MODEL

The Social Model VS The Medical Model of Disability Most of us are sadly only taught the medical model of disability from a young age. We are told that if we cannot do something it is us that are the problem as opposed to our environment, our disability is the problem and that's what needs to be fixed. But I wish more people would think about disability under the social model which shows that it's society's attitudes towards disabilities which need to change in order to make the world a more acc

📢 Today when we rally HANDS OFF the programs and rights people with disabilities depend on, know that 48 years ago on April 5th, disability movement founders led the most prolonged non-violent occupation of a federal building in US History, and it changed the world! On April 5, 1977, disabled people organized to pass the federal 504 regulations that protect people with disabilities from discrimination. For almost half a decade, those protections allowed people with disabilities to survive and b

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