Models, roles and values in NDC Flashcards
1
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What are the 2 contrasting models?
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- medical
- social
2
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Medical model?
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- individual is impaired, has deficits
- intervention to fix or improve
- diagnosis is gateway to input
- person is disordered
3
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Social model?
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- society constructs barriers to function
- adjustments to the environment to allow function
- self-determination
- disabled by society
4
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What is wrong with the medical model (Critique?)
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- problem-focused and deficit based
- locates issues solely with individual, via disease
- diagnostic boxes - arbitrary distinction between ‘disordered’ or ‘typical’
- professionals act to label and fix the patients
5
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What’s good about the medical model (counter-critique?)
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- people encounter real difficulties
- people look to professionals for help
- diagnosis can help understand and anticipate needs
- professionals can address individual concerns respectfully
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What’s wrong with the social model (Critique?)
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- abstract, political argument (idealistic, unmeasurable)
- downplays individual experiences like pain and psychological distress
- too general to identify and respond to needs
- easier to remove barriers to physical function
7
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What’s good about the social model (counter-critique?)
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- optimism is necessary that society can change for the better
- advocacy and political pressure works
- ‘this is what neurodiverse people want’
8
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What are SLT roles?
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- Promotion (of functioning) and prevention (of barriers/restrictions)
- understand the individual in context, intervention to support goals and enhance capacities, increase activity and participation
- individual’s close communication environment: consultation, advice & training, accessible communication
- wider roles: advocate, agent of change
8
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What is the neurodiveristy movement?
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- not deficient, but different
- neurodevelopment difference part of expected human variation
- challenges stigma, advocates ND pride
- acknowledges neurocognitive challenges while championing strengths
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