These factors interact with disability to shape individuals’ experiences and the barriers they face. According to the social model, ‘disability’ refers to the ways that socially constructed barriers ...

The Executive Board of Education International (EI) during its 70th meeting, on 1-3 April, reaffirmed the central role of ...

The idea of barriers is an important one in the social model of disability. According to this model, disability comes not from the existence of an impairment but from barriers that society creates.

It replaces the old “medical model” of disability by a social and human rights model based on the fact that it is society that “disables” persons with disabilities from exercising their ...

In the social model, disability is seen as the result of societal barriers, such as physical inaccessibility, lack of accommodations and discrimination, whereas the medical model focuses on the ...