Breaking The Barriers
The medical model of disability is a scientific diagnosis given to someone at some point. The medical model of disability is a matter of fact and not what people assume about the disabled. Doctors and people in the medical field focus solely on the diagnosis and how that affects the person. They don't assume that a person can or cannot do something or feel some way because they know the intricacies of the disability. On the other hand, the biopsychosocial model of disability is a more intricate way of looking at disability. Society has a bad habit of creating preconceived notions about people with disabilities even though they most likely know little to nothing about the disability someone has. The biopsychosocial model allows us to take a deep dive into the different aspects of someone's disability like culture, age, and cognition. Those are just a couple of things that the model looks into. Instead of just saying this is the disability someone has it ...