Are people with disabilities excluded from ministry?

Kay Morgan-Gurr  |  Features
Date posted:  30 Aug 2024
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Are people with disabilities excluded from ministry?

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Did you know there are different models of disability?

The two main ones are the ‘medical’ and ‘social’ models. I asked AI (artificial intelligence) to sum them up for me and it did a reasonable job of describing what they are:

'The medical model focuses on finding a cure or making a person more "normal". The disabled person is seen as the reason for the problem, may be seen as ‘defective’ or unable to make decisions.

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