Professionals struggling to implement social models of disability should read this book, writes Trish Hafford-Letchfield. Its message is clear: for the social model to work, you have to buy into the ...

The social model of disability frames disability as something that is created by society, rather than only by medical conditions or physical differences. The model acknowledges that people have ...

Ways of thinking about disability differ across cultures and can be classified into three general models: the moral model, the medical model, and the social model (Olkin & Pledger, 2003). Under the ...