RANTING AND RAMBLING AHEAD, YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED (I’M SORRY)
More might be added later, who knows (not i)
What a surprise!! The disabled girl has more thoughts on accessibility! I wanted to separate this post from the other because these are more personal thoughts, generally unrelated, and I didn’t want to write a post that was 87 years long.
I know that they don’t really touch on it in the video / presentation because it’s meant to be sort of a short overview, but there is SO MUCH more when it comes to disability.
For example: The Models of Disability
Since Disability Studies became a more acknowledged field of study, there’s been a lot of research into different models and perceptions of disabled people and disabled society.
The Northeastern University Library has a decent page on this: Models of Disability – Disability Studies
There are different types of models, and then different models under those types. Deficit models, like the Medical model referenced in the presentation, are models that view disability as a deficit, or a negative aspect of someone’s identity. They often are oriented toward FIXING a perceived issue, and often blame difficulties caused by disability on a person, their health, and/or their past.
Another type of model is the social type. These models, such as the social model, or the human-rights model, view issues caused by disability as a failure of the society / system that has made it difficult. These models do NOT consider disability a failing of the individual, and often do not consider it something that must be fixed, but rather accommodated for and/or made normal*.
* “made normal” as in no longer considered out of the norm / weird / an extenuating circumstance. I do not mean “make everybody disabled”