Develop activities that help others understanding of the social and medical models of disability?

[Spud]

Hello,

My brain has given up on this unit!

Can anyone give me some guidance on the following questions please?

2.2 Make recommendations for agreed ways of working that actively promote empowerment and participation.

3.1 Develop activities that increase others' understanding of:
- Models of disability
- How they are experienced by individuals
- how they shape organisational structure and agreed ways of working.

Home life has really interfered with my coursework and I'm starting to feel a bit of a failure now.

[Ruthierhyme]

Hi, unit SS 5.4 Explore Models of Disability

Agreed ways of working are a setting's polices and procedures. They are codes of conduct, explanations of a role and responsibilities. They refer to daily routines and how they should happen, how information needs to be collected, recorded, assessed, stored and reviewed. How to stay safe and keep others safe.

Using your knowledge of the social and medical models of disabiliy what type of acititvies might you develop to help others understand them?

If it helps these level 3 threads might be useful

https://www.silkysteps.com/forum/showthread.php?t=15701

https://www.silkysteps.com/forum/showthread.php?t=12558

Page 97+ of the Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and soicial care


The Medical Model of care describes the disabling condiditon and focuses on the impairment the individual suffers and how that impairment reduces the individual's quality of life, causing disadvantage. In this model, the emphasis then is on identifying the disability, understanding it and learning to treat and change its course if possible or prevent further deterioration.

An alternative model, the social model of care took the opposite view and looked rather at the environment and its disabling impact on individualds. In other words, the view suported the notion that society creates disability and that barriers and prejudice, together with the subsequent exclusion by society, are the defining factors for who is disabled and who is not in a particular society. The lack of resources, facilities or even the environment in which restricted mobility meant that diabled individuals were unable to participate in work or education.

This model reflected the views that whilst physical or mental impairment posed problems these do not necessarily have to lead to disability unless society fails to accomodate these differences.

This change in thinking led to a sea of change in the way in which disability was viewed and politicians were forced to address the issues which were arisingf. It was clear that, in order to improive care changes to the way in which it was being delivered would need to be high on the agenda.

3.1 Activities

• Other professionals - find out who offers services based on a medical model and those who offer help organising enabling environments?

• Carers/family members - how does the setting work with carers and family members so that they know models of disability are understood and active participation is something the setting strives for? eg. promoting the setting for wheelchair access, hearing, speech and sight impairments, looking at the language used to descibe disability?

• Advocates - maybe use some of the training materials that advocates have developed to help inform what your setting does? Or use what the setting does to advocate for the models of disability?

• Colleagues -eg. as part of your setting's inhouse training you might develop an activity that asks colleagues to share their understaning of the models of disability and the impact for example, a Doctor's diagnosis might have on individuals and also the impact the environment and people's attitudes would have. Maybe ask them to look out for a story or example locally or in the news? (How A&E treated a broken arm - medical model and how the school enabled the child's continued participation by providing adult support with writing and time to rest - social model )

Activity ideas: https://assets.worldvision.org.uk/fi...ies_-_Full.pdf

How models shape organisational structure eg. planning and layout of rooms to ensure everyone has access to the same buildings, resources and oppotunities to take part.

Disability under the Equality Act 2010