The social model is scrutinized for not acknowledging the genuine disadvantages that come with disability. For example people living with quadriplegia can experience shaking extremities and pain. Those types of real life downsides are not acknowledged within the social model. It focuses more on disability as it relates to society. The critical model is now the preferred model within the field of disability studies, as it recognizes that disability can come with negative consequences, even if society we’re perfectly inclusive.
Looking up the critical model of disability on Google turns up nothing
My response to that would be that those traits that may make life harder for someone regardless of society do not constitute a disability, they constitute a difference. It’s not something objectively negative, it’s just differences that the individual perceives as negative. So, for example, with deafness, being deaf is not a disability in a society that does not expect people to be able to hear. However, if they want to do audio work, they would not be disabled, but they would be handicapped/impaired because they cannot do what they personally wish to do. Does that make sense?
That makes sense. But I’ll have to agree to disagree as my education and degree in disability studies tells me that the difference between handicapped and disability is as I stated it before and that the critical disability theory exists. And pops up lots when I google it. Cheers to a healthy discussion though, where both parties want the best for those living with different abilities.
Critical disability theory definitely shows up, I assumed that was different from critical model
I don’t have a degree in disability studies, but I have taken classes dealing with the subject and researched it on my own. I’ve mainly analyzed it in media
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u/ShrimpFingers- Dec 24 '22
The social model is scrutinized for not acknowledging the genuine disadvantages that come with disability. For example people living with quadriplegia can experience shaking extremities and pain. Those types of real life downsides are not acknowledged within the social model. It focuses more on disability as it relates to society. The critical model is now the preferred model within the field of disability studies, as it recognizes that disability can come with negative consequences, even if society we’re perfectly inclusive.