Social Model Of Disability

Models of Disability

There are various different models of disability but the ones I am going to be focusing on are medical and social. The difference between these two models of disability is that the medical one is where the individual is disabled for example they may have to use a wheel chair. The social model is the view of people in the society on people’s disabilities and how they approach this.
For example in our setting we do not have wheelchair access for upstairs for people who may need to go upstairs so due to this children who may attend our nursery will only be able to attend until they have to go to pre-school due to pre-school being in a room upstairs. In our setting though we try to provide an equal opportunity for everybody