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.
When someone isn't ready to call themselves disabled
In this, my third article on supporting people when disability arrives in their lives, I’m going to be looking at …