Models of Disability and the Disability Rights Movement

Models of Disability and the Disability Rights Movement From Charity Model to a Human Rights Approach

Charity Model

Medical Model

Social Model

What is the difference between impairment and disability?

Barriers Built by Society environmental/ physical taken from Flickr. com, licensed under CC BY-SA 2. 0 attitudes organisational structures

How to Talk about Disability • handicapped/cripple • wheelchair bound • retarded • suffering from … • special needs • disabled person • wheelchair user • person with learning disability • with an impairment • access needs

Integration ≠ Inclusion Integration: Allowing someone to take part but not making adaptations for them. Inclusion: Making adaptations to accompany people‘s needs so they can fully participate.

Historical Views of Disability “Congress of Freaks” Ringling Brothers lineup in 1924 Fountain hospital used for „severely subnormal children“ from 1911 (London) taken from the Wellcome Collection licensed under CC BY 4. 0, cropped

This photo is licensed under CC BY 2. 0, cropped by Gabriele Senft, licenced under CC BY-SA 3. 0 DE, cropped Time to Protest! by Roger Blackwell, licensed under CC BY 2. 0, cropped

Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (CRPD) • adopted on 13 th December 2006 • ratified by the UK in 2009 → UK Equality Act in 2010 Definition of being disabled under Equality Act: “[having] a physical or mental impairment that has a ‘substantial’ and ‘long-term’ negative effect on your ability to do normal daily activities”

Intersectionality artist: Dave Lupton aka Crippen, link to this picture, Dave's blog

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