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What is the medical model of disability? - ✔✔It presumes that disability is based on the condition a
person has and that the appropriate response is to treat/cure/mamage it with professional help
What is a weakness/problem with the medical model of disability? - ✔✔It neglects the
social/environmental aspects of disability
What is the social model of disability? - ✔✔It argues that disability is a socially created problem caused
by a collection of social/environmental issues, not the individual
What is a weakness/problem with the social model of disability? - ✔✔It neglects the physical aspects of
disability
What is the biopsychosocial model of disability? - ✔✔Formulated by the WHO in 2002, it synthesizes the
medical and social models by considering the interplay of social, individual, and physical conditions.
What is the economic model? - ✔✔It defines disability as a person's inability to work. It assess the
degree to which the condition affects individual's productivity, employer profits, and government
welfare payments.
What is the functional solutions model? - ✔✔It focuses on the the limitations/impairments a disability
causes, and seeks to provide solutions to them via innovation and entrepreneurship.
What is a weakness/problem with the functional solutions model? - ✔✔It puts little emphasis on the
sociopolitical emphasis
Social Identity/Cultural Affiliation Model - ✔✔It frames disability as a point of pride, something one can
use to seek community with others in.
,What is a weakness/problem of the social identity model? - ✔✔It can lead to feelings of exclusion due to
in/out group thinking
What is the charity model? - ✔✔It presents those with disabilities as unfortunate and needy, while those
who help them are kind and generous.
What is a strength/positive to the charity model? - ✔✔It can lead to time and resources being given to
those that need the help
What is a weakness of the charity model? - ✔✔It can be condescending and stigmatizing to those who
are more self-capable
What are visual disabilities? - ✔✔A set of conditions that affect one's visual perception in some way,
whether total or complete blindness or color blindness
What are barriers that those with a visual disability might experience? - ✔✔Lack of alt text for images
Lack of audio format for printed material
No redundancy coding
Lack of audio descriptions for video
What are auditory disabilities? - ✔✔A set of conditions that affect one's perception of sound that can
range from partial to total hearing loss, or central auditory processing disorder
What are barriers that those with an auditory disability might experience? - ✔✔Lack of sign language
interpreters, lack of captions or transcripts, interfaces that require voice input
What is deaf-blindness? - ✔✔A rare condition where someone could be near/totally deaf and blind,
requiring touch to be their primary mode of interaction
What are barriers that an individual who is deaf-blind might experience? - ✔✔Lack of printed braille, lack
of physical sign language interpreter, lack of output for a braille keyboard
, What are speech disabilities? - ✔✔Disorders that range from mild slurred speech to an inability to speak
at all.
What are examples of speech disabilities? - ✔✔Articulation disorders, aphasia, mutism/no speech.
What are three categories of articulation disorders? - ✔✔Speech sound, phonological process and motor
speech
What are speech sound disorders? - ✔✔When mistakes continue past a certain age
What are phonological process disorders? - ✔✔When there are patterns of not saying words correctly
What are motor speech disorders? - ✔✔When there is trouble moving the required muscles for speaking
What is aphasia? - ✔✔The impairment of language that affects the production and comprehension of
language, as well as the ability to read and write.
What is mutism? - ✔✔The inability to speak and can be caused by physical injury or
psychological/emotional trauma.
What are barriers someone with a speech disability might experience? - ✔✔Lack of text based
alternatives for speech communication
What are mobility, flexibility, and body structure disorders? - ✔✔These disabilities include people with
upper and lower limb loss, challenges in dexterity, difficulty coordinating different organs, or a broken
skeletal structure, as well as those who have trouble with purposeful and independent body movements
What are barriers that someone with a mobility, flexibility, or body structure disability might experience?
- ✔✔Appliances that are out of reach or require specific touch input to use, architecture that is difficult
to traverse (e.g. steps), objects that are too high/low to easily use (e.g. water fountains)