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 ...

Elizabeth McGhee Hassrick, PhD is the Lab Director. The SoDI Lab applies the social model of disability, primarily targeting research and interventions that change society to improve the outcomes of ...

These questions were later criticized because they did not align with the social model of disability, which frames disability not only as an individual attribute but also as a result of societal ...

At the Global Disability Summit (GDS), the Education International (EI) delegation reaffirmed that inclusive education is a ...

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 ...

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.

“The Government must shift its focus from a medical model of disability to the social model, or risk doing real harm to an ...

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 ...