disabled identities

Question 1

the medical model

Answer 1

• Sees disability as a medical problem, focusing on the limitations caused by the impairment.
• This approach leads to defining of a disabled person by their disability of impairments.
• This leads to a victim blaming mentality

Question 2

shakespeare

Answer 2

• Argues that disabled people are often socialised into seeing themselves as victims
• that people with impairments accept this as victim mentality as they can use it as a reason for their failure.
• There is a lack of positive role models in public life and the media.

Question 3

the social model

Answer 3

• The social model of disability focuses on the social and physical barriers to inclusion that may exist
• the design of buildings and public spaces that deny access to those with mobility problems

Question 4

barnes

Answer 4

• In the mass media, representations of disability have generally been oppressive and negative.
• People with disabilities are rarely represented as people with their own identities.

Question 5

gill

Answer 5

• Learned helplessness, the way that some disabled people may internalise the idea that they are incapable in changing a situation and thus fails to take action to help themselves.

Question 6

murugami

Answer 6

• that a disabled person has the ability to construct a self identity that access their impairment but is independent of it so they see themselves as a person first and then their disability as just one of their characteristics.

Question 7

scrambler

Answer 7

Disabled people are portrayed as workshy, burden and scrounged in the media

Question 8

Oliver

Answer 8

Official definitions attached to disability need to be reclaimed by removing the negative definition of disability which makes disabled people look tragic