Lecture #5 Service Delivery Flashcards
Service Delivery Models:
- Relative Isolation
- Integration
- Inclusion
What stimulated changes to happen in service delivery model?
- Human conflict
- Formation of humanitarian organizations (e.g. United Nations in 1940s)
-Legislation to protect the rights of people with impairments - In the present: Covid 19, created big opportunities for change.
Service Delivery Model: 1. Relative isolation:
Very old model (1900-1950s)
- E.g. institutions, residential programs, special schools – where people resided
- Strong segregation occurred in most cases
What model is Relative isolation’s model based on?
Facilities-based model
Why are people segregated as in Relative isolation, facility-based model?
- Fear of mental illness
- not understanding
- “they don’t look normal”
- their needs are different
- Doctors recommendation to let their children in the institution better that being with the parents
What are some consequences of the relative isolation model?
- People viewed and treated as victims or patients
- Few opportunities for interactions with society
- Limited opportunities to have choices
- Limited education; Sometimes too focused on training
- Minimal opportunities for recreation; Physical activity prescribed to fix/correct medical conditions
- Mistreatment, abuse, lack of privacy and respect in the institution
Sexual Sterilization Act of Alberta (1928-1972). What happened?
“Eugenics.” Women with “problematic” genes were prevented from having babies by removing their uterus without consent.
What is Eugenics?
Eugenicists worldwide believed that they could perfect human beings and eliminate so-called social ills through genetics and heredity
How about Segregated/Specialized Programs in this day?
We hope that they are based on choice and that they have enough experience.
What are some advantages of Segregated Programs?
- Some choose segregated programs
- Focus on the needs of the individual
- Allows 1-on-1 or small-group instruction
People should not be placed in segregated programs just because of what?
just because of physical, intellectual, emotional or social differences
Integration Model:
Works on the integration of people with impairments learn, work, and recreate among people without impairments
What model is the Integration Model based on?
A Services Based Model (emerged in the 1950’s) After the Relative Isolation Model
Why did the Integration model emerge?
- Public outcry: by activists movement
- WWII Veterans
- Research: impairment fear-based
- Change in thinking - Normalization
What was the key to how Integration Model immerged?
The concept of Normalization