Disability is not Inability

:: the individual model or Medical Model

Dominant notions of disability:

The societal view of disability generally conforms to the individual or overcoming or medical model of disability. This holds that disability is inherent in the individual, whose responsibility it is to ‘overcome’ her or his ‘tragic’ disability.

Often this ‘overcoming’ is achieved through medical intervention, such as attempts at ‘cures’. For example, top wheelchair athlete Tanni Grey-Thompson was forced as a child to wear heavy leg callipers which gave her blisters, rather than being offered the simple and practical option of using a wheelchair.
This approach to disability aims for the normalisation of disabled people, often through the medicalisation of their condition.

:: The WHO Model.

:: The Charity Model.

:: The Capability Model.

:: The social Model

:: The Medical Model

:: The Metaphor Model.