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Medical (red), social (blue) models of disability need to be transformed into a shade of purple

It’s not black and white, and it shouldn’t be red or blue, either. When I first started my position at the University of Illinois at Chicago back in 1997, I was a faculty member in a newly formed ...
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Expanding The GUIDE Model To Include Adults With Intellectual Disability And Dementia

Expanding the GUIDE model’s eligibility language to include adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities offers a ...
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Health Disparities in the Medical Record and Disability Determinations: Proceedings of a Workshop

The medical model of disability locates the problem of disability at the person, and it operates in the context of disease, disorders, and impairments. The social model of disability understands ...
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What are the social and medical models of disability, and how do they differ?

What do you think of when you think of disability? Someone in a wheelchair? Someone who is blind and has a cane? Whatever they look like, their impairment means life can be harder for them. The fact ...
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Chronic Disease and Disability: Beyond the Acute Medical Model

Unfortunately, this book can't be printed from the OpenBook. If you need to print pages from this book, we recommend downloading it as a PDF. Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this ...
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Understanding disability through the Social Model of Disability

Disability forms part of a man’s condition. At one point or the other, almost everyone will be impaired temporarily or permanently. It is a multiplex, progressive, contested, and a subject that is ...