Ways of thinking about disability differ across cultures and can be classified into three general models: the moral model, the medical model, and the social model (Olkin & Pledger, 2003). Under the ...

What do you think of when you think of disability? Someone in a wheelchair? Someone who is blind and has a cane? Whatever they look like, their impairment means life can be harder for them. The fact ...

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Professionals struggling to implement social models of disability should read this book, writes Trish Hafford-Letchfield. Its message is clear: for the social model to work, you have to buy into the ...

FOR many decades, Bob Williams-Findlay has been a leading activist within disabled people’s movements. Last year, Pluto published his book Disability Praxis, a work of sophisticated political theory.

Disability can be difficult to talk about sensitively because of how embedded ableism is in our language, biases and perceptions of disability. Conversations about disability are slowly increasing, ...