Disability Flashcards
Explain the medical model (bulsara)
It views disability as product of imapirment. Focus on dead blind wheel chair. Group that don’t function normally and can’t enjoy a normal life
Name the two models of disability
Medical model and social model
Explain the social model of disability
Disability is outcome of social barriers. Focus on discriminatory practices and lack of access. People experience impairments but can’t enjoy ordinary life style because of social barriers
Describe cumberbatch and negrines study of Tv and disability
No diabled people in current affairs or tv quizes only 0.5 or total characters in fiction programmes
Name 4 assumptions longmore found about the representation of disabled people on tv
Dependant Victims Evil Monsters Lost humanity Maladjusted Special powers Courage as Sexually deviant Dangerous
Name 5 claims Barnes made on the images of disabled people in the media
Pitable and pathetic Object of violent Sinister and evil Super cripple O next of ridicule Sexually abnormal Burden Normal