Social Model Interventions

A Response to Discrimination

Abstract

Disability can be understood as a combination of medical model and social model approaches. However, virtually all interventions aimed at supporting individuals with disabilities take a medical model perspective in spite of the experience of discrimination often faced by those with impairments. This article unpacks the idea of social model interventions geared at changing the social consequences of disability. Discussion is made of social model interventions themselves with specific recommendations of how they might be implemented and evaluated.