Disabled Identities

Question 1

The medical model

Answer 1

• sees disability as a medical problem
• focuses on limitations caused by the impairment leading to victim blaming

Question 2

The social model

Answer 2

• focuses on social and physical barriers to inclusion that may exist such as designs of buildings and public spaces that deny access to those with mobility problems
• leads to view that disability is socially constructed as it rests in assumptions of what normal and abnormal is

Question 3

Barnes

Answer 3

• mass media representations of disability have generally been oppressive and negative
• representations include: in need of pity and charity, victims, villains, super cripples, burden, sexually abnormal and ordinary or normal