The emerging social model of disability fundamentally broadens the focus away from an exclusive concentration on the affliction-related physical impairments of the private to also include the individual's concrete and social environments that tin impose both disabling limitations and enabling mitigation of limitations.
R. Cigman , in International Encyclopedia of Educational activity (3rd Edition), 2010
Medical Versus Social Model of Disability
The distinction between the medical and social models of disability emerged every bit a question: where is disability located? Is it located inside individuals or within society? Disability Equality in Education (2005) says:
Nosotros believe that the problem is not in the child and their impairment, but in the social and attitudinal barriers in the education system. This 'social model' draws on the thinking of disabled people and underpins all inclusive education (T. E. South. 08.07.05)
Inclusive educational activity is a social response to the medicalization of disability. Instead of seeing some but not others as deficient in various means, the thought is that society makes some people unable to function as they are capable of functioning. Install ramps and lifts in buildings, and people in wheelchairs will no longer be functionally disabled. Modify attitudes toward wheelchair users, so that they are perceived as having different rather than impaired mobility and are welcome in lodge, and we are talking well-nigh inclusion.
The shift from a medical to a social model is synonymous, for many, with justice and equality for disabled people. Yet it has non been immune to criticism, even from people with disabilities. Lord Low (2007), who is visually impaired, says:
If education is about annihilation, it is virtually influencing and indeed irresolute the individual child. One may do this by modifying the social environments in which the child is placed, but 1 cannot eliminate the individual dimension birthday. (p. 9)
Norwich (1996) makes a similar indicate:
…it is one thing to attribute the disadvantage of a disabled person but to individual characteristics, information technology is quite another to exclude the role of individual characteristics. (p. 27)
Many sociologists and educationists see the medical and social models equally mutually sectional, and the former equally responsible for discrimination against disabled people. Low and Norwich advise, on the contrary, that these models demand to be combined in some mode if we are to do justice to all children. However, the idea persists that the medical and social models are exclusive, and this polarization now extends to the question of educational placement.
It makes more than sense to run across placement as a matter of either–or than information technology does to see models this way. After all, children attend either a mainstream or a special school (although special units in mainstream schools break down this polarity to an extent). What makes less sense, perhaps, is the idea that schools either exclude or include children, rather as disability models are either medical or social. This idea implies that special schools are necessarily sectional, in the sense of being discriminatory, divisive, and unjust. This suggests that inclusion/exclusion should be seen equally a polarity between types of establishment.
John Young , in Brocklehurst'due south Textbook of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology (Seventh Edition), 2010
Illness or part rehabilitation
To some, the ICIDH classification has represented an overmedicalized model of disability in which disablement is seen equally located primarily inside the individual.52 In the social model of disability, disablement is perceived less equally an attribute of a person and more as a set of circumstances, many of which arise from the external surround.53 Handicap is acquired by having steps into buildings and not simply past difficulty in walking. Within this paradigm, "the disabled elderly" can be considered as a disadvantaged minority group, an argument that forms a component of a larger thesis concerning the social structure of onetime age.54 A continuation of this perspective is to discuss disablement in the language of social discrimination and oppression.55 Hither, problems are located at the level of an individual simply caused through a prevailing unhelpful attitude towards disablement by order as a whole. This underpins arguments for a more inclusive research agenda, which acknowledges more fully that disablement is a personal experience created as much by wider society as by the individual.55 The debate over the relative claim of the different models of disability continues,52,53,55,56 and it is the intention that both models will be encapsulated in the forthcoming revised version of the ICIDH (see later discussion).
The two competing rehabilitation paradigms—medical and social—translate to an affliction (sickness) model and part (person) model. Affliction rehabilitation is about apparent when it is tacked on to various medical specialties. Examples are cardiac or pulmonary rehabilitation programs. Although these programs accept extended the spectrum of intendance available to patients, they have not usually been integral to the medical specialty concerned but generally require a purposeful secondary referral. Even so, information technology has get increasingly recognized that these disease-specific rehabilitation programs accept tangible benefits.57–59 The lack of medical enthusiasm engendered by these programs can exist located within our contemporary curative medical approach with its emphasis on brief interventions. Unfortunately, complexity appears integral to the effectiveness of rehabilitation programs,60 and information technology is far easier to introduce a novel drug than a novel rehabilitation plan.
Sally French , John Swain , in Tidy'southward Physiotherapy (Fifteenth Edition), 2013
Dissimilar models
Definition
Disability can be defined from an individual model or a social model. The individual model is dominant and assumes that the difficulties faced by disabled people are a straight result of their private impairments or lack or loss of functioning. The social model of disability recognises the social origin of disability in a lodge geared by, and for, non-disabled people. The disadvantages and restrictions, oftentimes referred to as barriers, permeate every aspect of the physical and social environment. Disability tin, therefore, be defined equally a course of social oppression.
In this section of the affiliate we will examine ii key models of disability – the individual model and the social model – to illustrate the ways in which underlying ideas and concepts tin shape physiotherapy practice and wider medical and social policy. A model tin can be defined as a conceptual framework for understanding causal relationships. It usually lies within the framework of a broader theory (Brown 2009). Within every society there are competing models of inability, with some being more dominant than others at different times (Oliver 2004; Wilder 2006). In before centuries, for example, models of disability were based upon religion (Stiker 1997; Whalley Hammell 2006). Although often in conflict, models of disability may gradually influence and change each other. The models put forward past powerful groups within society, such as the medical profession, tend to boss the models of less powerful groups, such as disabled people themselves (Russell 1998; French and Young man 2008).
It is essential to explore these models of inability, for attitudes and behaviour towards disabled people, policy, professional person practise, and the running of institutions, including hospitals and rehabilitation centres, are based, at least in part, upon them. As Oliver (1993: 61) states:
The 'lack of fit' between able-bodied and disabled people'south definitions is more than than just a semantic quibble for it has of import implications both for the provision of services and the ability to control i'southward life.
Even the means in which single words are divers can shape both policy and practice. The word 'independence' is an instance.
Definition
The predominant meaning of independence is the ability to do things for oneself. This definition has, however, been challenged by disabled people who view independence in terms of cocky-conclusion, control, and managing and organising any aid that is required. Some cultures have a collectivist orientation and do not value independence as much as others. In a very real sense we are all dependent on each other for our survival and then nobody is independent.
Health professionals tend to define independence as 'doing things for yourself', whereas disabled people define it equally having control of your life. Ryan and Holman state that '…independence is not necessarily about what y'all tin can do for yourself, but rather about what others can do for you, in ways that you want it done' (1998: 19).
The private model of inability
The most widespread view of disability at the nowadays time, at least in the Western earth, is based upon the supposition that the difficulties disabled people experience are a direct result of their individual physical, sensory or intellectual impairments (French 2004b; Oliver and Sapey; 2006; Whalley Hammell 2006). Thus, the blind person who falls downwards a hole in the pavement does and then considering he or she cannot encounter it, and the person with a motor impairment fails to get into the building because of his or her inability to walk. Problems are thus viewed equally residing within the individual. The private model of disability is securely ingrained and 'taken as given' in the medical, psychological and sociological literature. Fifty-fifty in the literature on the folklore of health and disease, disability as a social problem is rarely acknowledged (Barnes and Mercer 1996; Fellow et al. 2003; Thomas 2007).
The medical model can exist regarded as a subcategory of the overarching private model of disability where disability is conceived as part of the disease process, abnormality and individual tragedy – something that happens to unfortunate individuals on a more or less random ground. In turn, treatment is based upon the idea that the problem resides inside the private and must exist overcome by the individual's own efforts. Disabled people have, for example, been disquisitional of the countless hours they have spent attempting to learn to walk or talk at the expense of their pedagogy and leisure, and the manner their lives have been dominated by medicine. especially when they were immature (Sutherland 1981; Oliver 1996; Beau and French 2008). Bricklayer and Rieser (1992: 82) land:
For young people the disadvantages of medical treatment need to be weighted against the possible advantages. Children are not normally asked if they want spoken communication therapy, physiotherapy, orthopaedic surgery, hospitalisation, drugs or cumbersome and ugly 'aids and appliances'. We are not asked whether we want to be put on daily regimes or programmes which use hours of precious play-time. All these things are just imposed on us with the supposition that we share our parents' or therapists' desire for u.s.a. to exist more than 'normal' at all costs. We are not fifty-fifty consulted as adults as to whether nosotros retrieve those things had been necessary or useful.
None of these arguments imply that considering the medical or individual needs of disabled individuals is wrong; the argument is that the individual model has tended to view disability just in those terms, focussing almost exclusively on attempts to modify people'southward impairments and return them or estimate them to 'normal'. The effect of the physical, attitudinal and social environment on disabled people has been largely ignored or regarded as relatively fixed, which has maintained the status quo and kept disabled people in their disadvantaged state within lodge (Oliver and Sapey 2006). Thus, the onus is on disabled people to adapt to a disabling surroundings (Fellow et al. 2004). This is something that disabled people are increasingly joining forces to challenge. As Oliver (1996: 44) states:
The inability movement throughout the world is rejecting approaches based upon the restoration of normality and insisting on approaches based upon the commemoration of difference.
Definition
Normality is a dominant, shared expectation of behaviour and personal characteristics that defines what is considered culturally desirable and appropriate.
Individualistic definitions of disability certainly take the potential to do serious harm. The medicalisation of learning disability, whereby people were institutionalised and abused, is one example (Ryan and Thomas 1987; Potts and Fido 1991; Atkinson et al. 2000; Goble 2008). Other examples are the do of oralism, where deaf children were prevented from using sign language and punished for using it (Humphries and Gordon 1992; Dimmock 1993; Corker 1996) and 'sight-saving' schools where visually impaired children were prevented from using their sight and, in event, were denied a total education (French 2005). All of these policies and practices were rooted in an individual model of disability.
The social model of disability
The social model of disability is oftentimes referred to as the 'barriers arroyo' where disability is viewed not in terms of the individual's impairment, but in terms of environmental, structural and attitudinal barriers that impinge upon the lives of disabled people and which have the potential to impede their inclusion and progress in many areas of life, including employment, instruction and leisure, unless they are minimised or removed (Oliver 1996). The social model of disability has arisen from the thinking, writings and growing cultural identity of disabled people themselves (Swain et al. 2004).
The post-obit definition of impairment and disability is that of the Union of the Physically Impaired Against Segregation (UPIAS), which was an early radical group of the Disabled People's Motion. Its major importance is that it breaks the link betwixt impairment and inability (UPIAS 1976: xiv):
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damage: lacking role or all of a limb, or having a lacking limb, organ or mechanism of the body.
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disability: the disadvantage or restriction of activity caused by a contemporary social organisation which takes no or footling account of people who have physical impairments and thus excludes them from participation in the mainstream of social activities. Physical disability is therefore a particular course of social oppression.
The word 'physical' is now frequently removed from this definition so as to include people with learning difficulties and users of the mental wellness organization (French and Swain 2008). These, and similar, definitions break the connection betwixt impairment and inability, which are viewed as split up entities with no causal link. This is similar to the distinction made between sex (a biological entity) and gender (a social entity) in the women's movement. In recent years, however, it has been recognised that the body is more than a biological entity. Only as height, weight, age and physique have social and cultural dimensions and consequences, so too does impairment (Hughes 2004).
The WHO's International Classification of Impairment, Inability and Handicap (ICIDH) (1980) and the revised version (ICIDH-two) (2000) have been rejected by the Disabled People's Movement because, despite taking social and environmental factors into account, the significant of disability is nevertheless underpinned by the medical model and the causal link betwixt harm and disability remains intact (Hurst 2000; Pfeiffer 2000).
Disability is viewed within the social model in terms of barriers (French 2004b). There are three types of barriers, which all interact:
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Structural barriers: these refer to the underlying norms, mores and ideologies of organisations and institutions which are based on judgements of 'normality' and which are sustained by hierarchies of ability.
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Environmental barriers: these refer to concrete barriers within the environment, for example steps, holes in the pavement and lack of resources for disabled people, for case lack of Braille and lack of sign linguistic communication interpreters. It likewise refers to the means things are washed, which may exclude disabled people, east.g. the mode meetings are conducted and the fourth dimension immune for tasks.
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Attitudinal barriers: these refer to the adverse attitudes and behaviour of people towards disabled people.
It can exist seen that the social model of disability locates disability not within the individual disabled person, simply inside society. Thus, the person who uses a wheelchair is not disabled by paralysis merely by building pattern, lack of lifts, rigid work practices, and the attitudes and behaviour of others (Figure 10.four). Similarly, the visually dumb person is not disabled by lack of sight, but by lack of Braille and large print, cluttered pavements and stereotypical ideas about blindness (Figure 10.v). Finkelstein (1981, 1998) has argued that non-disabled people would be as disabled if the environment were not designed with their needs in mind, for example if the height of doorways only accommodated wheelchair users (Figure 10.half dozen). Human beings fashion the world to suit their own capabilities and limitations, and disabled people are wanting nothing more than than that.
Bharat Bryce , Karen Glasby , in Child Sexual Abuse, 2020
Definition and models of disability
Before discussing child sexual abuse in the context of disability it is of import to define the terms impairment and disability and to identify the model of disability within which the discussion takes place. An impairment can exist divers as 'whatever loss or abnormality of psychological, physiological, or anatomical structure or part' (ABS, 1996, p. 49). A disability can be defined as 'any restriction or lack of ability, resulting from an impairment, to perform an activity in the way or within the range considered normal for a homo' (ABS, 1996, p. 47). From these definitions, information technology is clear that each term refers to ii very dissimilar and distinct concepts. Impairment refers to the actual difference that is experienced past the individual, while disability refers to the way in which this deviation affects the private equally they live and interact within their customs. In our contemporary gild, however, the term disability is ofttimes used to refer to the person's damage, eastward.yard. person with a disability. The term used throughout this word, a person who experiences disability, recognises that disability does non result solely from a person'south harm but from a mismatch betwixt a person'south harm and the expectations of their surroundings (United nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities [CRPD], 2006). The relevance of this term within the context of CSA will exist congenital upon further equally models of disability are explored.
The more than traditional view of inability sits within a medical model. Within this model, disability is seen as beingness located within, as an inherent characteristic of, the individual (Llewellyn, Wayland, & Hindmarsh, 2016). This agreement of disability has, throughout history, resulted in a deficit-based view where the feel of inability is seen as one of loss, sadness, and negativity. In general, under the medical model of disability, people who experience disabilities are seen every bit 'less than human' and tend to be devalued beyond all aspects of life (Children with Disability Australia, 2015). In relation to CSA, the medical model of disability has resulted in the belief that it is the inability per see which results in the abuse of the individual (Ammerman & Patz, 1996). Furthermore, it has resulted in a number of attitudes including that sexual abuse against a person who experiences disability would never happen; the sexual abuse of a person who experiences disability is less serious than sexual abuse confronting people who do not experience disability; that sexual corruption does not accept serious impacts on the person who experiences disability; and fifty-fifty that the inherent characteristics of the person who experiences disability somehow invites or encourages sexual abuse (Children with Disability Australia, 2015; Llewellyn et al., 2016). The appropriateness of this model of disability and its applicability in the context of CSA has been widely discouraged in more contempo times. Rather, more contemporary models of disability are being adult and applied across a range of contexts including the context of CSA.
One such gimmicky model is the social model of disability. This popular model of disability is based on an agreement that information technology is not individual impairments or limitations which result in disability, rather, disability exists entirely because of gild's failure to provide appropriate services and adequately ensure that the needs of all disabled people are fully taken into account (Oliver, 1996). The spectrum of disability is seen as a naturally occurring range of multifariousness within the human race, and the disadvantage and 'loss' experienced by people with disability are perceived equally a socially constructed phenomenon (Llewellyn et al., 2016). However, opponents to the social model of disability contend that it does not take into account the biological 'reality' of people who alive with diverse impairments. For example, the experience of permanent and significant levels of hurting every day and the bear on this has on how the person can act within their own lives and within their community. Thus it has been suggested that the social model of disability addresses simply a singular aspect of the feel of disability rather than recognising the multiple factors that combine to create the experience of disability (Anastasiou & Kauffman, 2013). To view CSA through the lens of the social model of disability, the college prevalence rates of child sexual corruption attributed to children who experience inability tin be credited entirely to the failure of social club to provide acceptable services and meet the needs of each individual. Within this view, no private factors influence the level of risk or vulnerability of experiencing CSA, and as discussed further within the chapter, individual factors are recognised every bit significantly contributing to the adventure of CSA in children both with and without a disability.
In response to concerns expressed about both the medical and social models of inability, the bio-psychosocial model of inability combines aspects of both of these models and recognises inability equally a continually evolving concept that is experienced differently by every individual (CRPD, 2006). The bio-psychosocial model of disability acknowledges that disability results from the interaction between persons with impairments and attitudinal and environmental barriers that hinder their full and constructive participation in society (Anastasiou & Kauffman, 2013). Inside this model, it is understood that every private volition experience unlike impairments at dissimilar levels of severity and will participate in a range of contexts throughout their lifespan, with each context having different attitudes and environmental barriers and supports that will impact on the level of the individual's participation. This model of disability attempts to integrate the complex biological, psychological, and social characteristics of the person who experiences inability, by recognising the circuitous interplay betwixt each of these factors to create the experience of life. In plough, to view CSA of children who feel disability through the bio-psychosocial model of disability, all factors, and the complex interplay betwixt these factors, are considered as beingness critical (Ammerman & Patz, 1996; Llewellyn et al., 2016). So it cannot be suggested that a child who experiences disability is at chance of CSA due to the singular fact that they have limited verbal language skills. Nor is it the singular fact that this child is in institutional care that increases their risk of experiencing CSA. More than appropriately, it is recognised that a child's adventure and vulnerability for experiencing CSA is due to multiple and intersecting factors relating to both the child's express verbal skills and living in institutional care, also as the many factors that influence, or are influenced by, each of these factors.
The bio-psychosocial model of disability aligns very closely with Bronfenbrenner'southward Ecological Systems Theory, which suggests that 5 types of interrelated systems; the microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem, and chronosystem are constantly interacting with each other to shape human development (Bronfenbrenner, 1976). The ecological systems theory acknowledges that the characteristics of the individual both shape and are shaped by the diverse factors that be inside systems that are both close to (family, schoolhouse, and peers) and far away (cultural values and ideologies) from the individual. Furthermore, these factors and influences volition vary over fourth dimension throughout the individual'due south life. Considering CSA of children who feel disability inside the context of a bio-psychosocial model of disability, and linking this to Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems Theory of evolution, at any indicate in time a kid'south level of risk and/or vulnerability for sexual abuse is determined by transactional interactions between risk factors in all systematic environments and the child's developmental stage and history (Assink et al., 2019; Bolan, 2001). Therefore risk and vulnerability volition change as the child's evolution and developmental stage change and systems and social contexts change alongside this.
Information technology is also suggested that chance factors nowadays in ecological systems that are closer to the kid originate at ecological systems farther from the child's immediate surroundings (Assink et al., 2019). That is, the family, school, and support people'south beliefs and values regarding the child who experiences disability volition generally be representative of the beliefs and values and assumptions of the wider community and club in which they live. This can be related directly back to the medical model of inability and the dehumanisation that has been inherent in a cultural understanding based on ableism. This has resulted in an attitude where the consideration of sexual corruption of children who feel inability has non been as valued, researched, or responded to within our lodge (Children with Disability Australia, 2015).
Consumer-Centered Process for Engineering Conquering and Use
Desleigh de Jonge B.Occ.Thy, Thou. Phil. (Occ. Thy), Grad Cert Soc Sci (Health Exercise) , ... Sylvia Rodger B.Occ.Thy, M.Ed.St., PhD , in Assistive Engineering in the Workplace, 2007
Defining Job Requirements
With service providers being focused primarily on identifying the person's abilities and impairments, little attention has been given to defining the task requirements of the technology. This shift in focus from the person and their abilities to what it is they want to be able to do is very important. In line with the social model of disability, information technology requires service providers to motion from fitting the technology to the person to configuring technology to run into the person's activity requirements. In this way service providers can align themselves more than closely to the user's goals and ensure that the technology provides users with the social and psychological freedoms they seek.23
A number of models highlight the need to depict and analyze the activities to be performed using the technology.2,four,24 Cook and Hussey identify activity as a fundamental element of the HAAT model.4 Valued activities are identified by examining the person's life roles and identifying the activities that contribute to these roles. Considering activities at this global level often results in general goal identification, such as improved advice, mobility, and computer use similar to those established at the goal identification stage of the procedure. Increasingly, with the development of integrated technologies, information technology is important to examine how activities relate to each other in a life role rather than considering each activity goal every bit a discrete entity.
For example, at piece of work someone may need to undertake data entry, read documents, brand appointments, dispatch letters, and communicate over the phone. By defining each task to be undertaken, the user can make up one's mind the specific functions they require of technology and consider how applied science might exist integrated to enable him to participate in all these activities effectively. It is necessary besides to examine activities at a more discrete level; that is, identifying each task involved in the activity and so that barriers to activeness date or task performance can exist examined at each stage. For example, a user may want to use a computer for word processing, navigating the Internet, cartoon, and data entry, all of which crave varying input speed and command. By determining the requirements of each task, a range of input devices tin be explored to determine which are best suited to each chore.
Albert Thousand. Cook PhD, PE (ret) , ... Pedro Encarnação PhD , in Assistive Technologies (Fifth Edition), 2020
Context
The HAAT model uses the term context in dissimilarity to many other models that use the term environs. The original HAAT model was based on a human being factors understanding of the human-system interaction (Bailey, 1996). The notion of context, every bit used by Bailey, described human factors in the use of systems and was more inclusive than the term environs.
Understanding of mechanisms of disability has shifted in the by decades, although not fully. The medical model of disability locates the "problem" in the individual, as some damage that needs to exist fixed. Intervention that focuses solely on making changes to the private follows a medical model. Although these interventions are certainly useful and ofttimes necessary, use of the medical model exclusively limits recognition of other causes of disability that lie exterior of the individual's torso structures and role (Whalley Hammel 2006; McColl and Jongbloed, 2006).
A social model of disability moves the location of the disability out of the person and into social structures. Information technology recognizes that social perceptions, attitudes, institutions, and policies all contribute to the creation of disability. Furthermore, disability creation results from a dynamic combination of personal characteristics, physical settings, and cultural norms that is "situational and interactive" (Fougeyrollas and Gray, 1998). These situations lead to exclusionary practices that limit the activity and community participation of individuals on the basis of their impairments. The context presents physical, attitudinal, cultural, infrastructure, and institutional barriers that exclude persons with disabilities from full participation in order.
The HAAT model reflects the social model of disability by making the contextual aspects of AT design, service delivery, and use explicit and prominent. Four contextual components are included: (one) concrete context, including natural and congenital surroundings and physical parameters; (2) social context (e.thou., with peers, with strangers); (3) cultural context; and (four) the institutional context, including formal legal, legislative acts, and regulations; policies, practice, and procedures at other institutional levels, such equally educational, work, organizational, and community settings; and sociocultural institutions, such as religious institutions.
The physical context includes elements of the natural and built environments that support or hinder participation. These elements are included in inclusive or universal pattern features such as Braille signage or ramped building entrances but also include physical aspects such as different natural terrains (e.g., snow, water ice, sand) that affect mobility. Physical parameters of noise, calorie-free, and temperature also are part of the concrete context.
The social context includes individuals in the surround who touch on activity participation and AT use. Direct and indirect interactions are distinguished here, with recognition that interaction with others face-to-face, remotely, or indirectly all take an influence. Individuals who exert an influence indirectly are those responsible for the development and enactment of policies and procedures that touch the participation of persons with disabilities. The social context also includes consideration of the club in which individuals live and the social values and attitudes that touch their full social inclusion. Understanding social mores every bit they relate to constructive use of AT systems similar Augmentative and Alternative Advice (AAC) is besides a part of the social context.
The cultural context involves systems of shared meanings (Bruner, 1990; Jonsson and Josephsson, 2005) that include beliefs, rituals, and values that are broadly held and that practise non change every bit quickly as socially held attitudes and practices. Although similarities exist among social and cultural contexts, cultural beliefs transcend social settings, are formed equally office of membership in a grouping, such every bit a religious or ethnic grouping, rather than living in a particular social context. Deportment and attitudes are influenced by perception of time and infinite, rights and responsibilities of different members of a group, independence and autonomy, and beliefs about the causality of life situations such equally disability (Jonsson and Josephsson, 2005).
The final chemical element of the context is the institutional context, which involves two fundamental areas: (1) legislation and related regulations and (2) policies and funding. Relevant legislation affects individuals with disabilities by requiring access to key rights such as education, health care, and employment. Information technology also details requirements for inclusion of individuals with disabilities in most aspects of community and social life. On the funding side, legislation, regulation, and policy define who and what are eligible for funding and the process whereby funding is obtained.
More than having a say – user participation in learning disability services
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User participation – definition of terms
User participation is generally understood to hateful active involvement in determination-making and inclusion in all aspects of daily life. Aichison et al (2001) suggested that the fundamental building blocks to successful engagement of service users include: communication, leadership, independent advocacy and the need for recognizing and developing a 'civilisation' of partnership from both sides.
'User participation' equally a concept is now well accepted inside the field of learning inability; still, this does non mean that information technology is clearly defined or consistently understood. In this chapter, nosotros define user participation as a procedure by which people with learning disabilities are agile participants non only as subjects, but also as initiators, doers, writers and disseminators of expert practice and research. Farther, in line with the established value base in learning inability services, underpinned by social role valorization (SRV) principles (as described in Chapter ii), user participation must too accost wider issues of social inclusion. Social inclusion involves the extent to which people, especially those with more severe learning disabilities, are supported to exist included in daily life and have opportunities to participate in typical activities in their homes and communities. This is central to the office of the occupational therapist in enabling occupation and engaging people in meaningful life experiences that raise their occupational performance (CAOT 1997).
Levels of participation
User participation is not a single outcome just should rather be considered as a process. Strong & Hedges (2000) provide a useful framework to conceptualize this process. In this framework, user participation can be seen as four distinct steps (Figure thirteen.1), similar to a ladder that has to be climbed one step at a time, each of the steps building on the 1 before it.
The level of service user participation at each stage may be assessed by because the following examples:
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Information leaflets nigh an occupational therapy service written in a user-friendly format would demonstrate that Step One has been achieved
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An occupational therapist could run a focus group, asking service users to provide feedback on the service they receive. This would demonstrate that Pace 2 has been accomplished
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The occupational therapist could invite service users to design or share ideas about how things could be improved. This consultative approach would demonstrate more agile interest from service users at Footstep Three
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Achieving Step Four may be more of a challenge, as many service users require a considerable amount of back up to actively participate in, for example, service planning meetings. Footstep Four also requires service managers to consider user participation at an organizational level.
In Chapter 4 inclusive methods of communication are presented and this is one way in which service users can exist supported at each stage of the process. There are no shortcuts and if things are done too quickly or steps missed out in that location is a risk of a user interest initiative becoming ineffective. Farther, information technology can be perceived every bit tokenistic to expect service users to participate effectively at the organizational level if they are non able to participate at the private and service levels in the places where they live, work or socialize. Occupational therapists could consider their part at each phase of the process and use ideas presented in the rest of this chapter to either implement or support strategies for inclusion within their ain practise or to consider ways of influencing services to enable service users to take a more proactive part at all levels of delivery.
Reader activity
Remember virtually your ain service for a moment and consider:
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What is happening already to enable service user involvement at each of these levels?
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What could you practice to increment interest in your service at each level?
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What would be your first steps towards increased service user involvement?
Policy development
It is not possible to consider user participation without thinking about how policy has shaped the agenda in learning disability services, particularly in user involvement research. Over the by xxx years, there have been a number of philosophical influences on service evolution in learning disability services. This section builds upon Chapter two, which presents the major historical influences on the development of learning inability services.
Early on research in this area involved the analysis of situations that people with learning disabilities were faced with. This was heavily influenced by normalization (Aichison et al 2001, Wolfensberger 1972), subsequently renamed SRV (Wolfensberger 1983), the social model of disability (Oliver 1996) and the growth of self-advocacy. Although normalization may accept created the weather condition for considering user participation, in practice much of the early on work in this surface area did not include people with learning disabilities views directly. More recent policy developments (for example Valuing People, DoH 2001) focusing on integrated services delivered in the communities where people with learning disabilities live, centrolineal with a social model of disability, have raised the stakes for carers, professionals and researchers in learning disability services who aspire to work in more inclusive ways.
Research: Social Role Valorization (SRV)
To understand the context of user participation, one needs to question why it has emerged equally a key theme over the past 3 decades. SRV had a very important influence on UK service evolution and more indirectly on social policy during the 1970s and 1980s and began shaping the research agenda. In the Uk, the influence of SRV ideas tin be clearly seen in the 3 principles of the All Wales Strategy (Welsh Office1983):
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People with a mental handicap have a right to ordinary patterns of life in the community.
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People with a mental handicap have a right to be treated as individuals.
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People with a mental handicap have a right to additional assist from the communities in which they live in order to enable them to develop their maximum potential as individuals. (Welsh Office 1983, quoted in Felce & Grant 1998p. xii).
This resulted in a massive closure programme of long-stay hospitals and evolution of culling community services. This was probably the most sustained endeavour in the UK to develop a coherent approach to service provision for people with learning disabilities.
SRV has also had an international influence, for instance, in Australia, the principles of the Victorian Legislation (Intellectually Disabled Person Services Act, 1986) stated among other things:
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The needs of intellectually disabled persons are all-time met when the conditions of their everyday life are the same as or every bit close as possible to norms and patterns which are valued in the general customs
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Services should promote maximum physical and social integration through the participation of intellectually disabled persons in the life of the community (Victorian Government 1986, Section v).
In inquiry terms, Chappell (1992) argues that SRV spawned a wealth of research that attempted to evaluate the quality of services (for case, Blunden 1988, Humphreys et al 1987, Mansell et al 1987). PASS (Wolfensberger & Glenn, 1975) and PASSING (Wolfensberger & Thomas 1983) tools to evaluate service quality from a normalization perspective, were two of the almost potent means of spreading normalization ideas. Much activeness in the 1980s was taken up by PASS Workshops where participants experienced service provision by condign a participant observer (service user) for a period of time and so evaluating this feel in relation to their own practice. Much research inspired by normalization has taken the service as its focus and the audience, service providers rather than users (Felce & Grant 1998). Whilst the research in this expanse has been greatly influential, in terms of evaluating new services, less attention has been paid to the key concepts of SRV. SRV's central concepts, stated very basically, are that if people could occupy socially valued roles then their image and social status would be enhanced, enabling them to get the good things in life that typical members of club take for granted. Equally Chappell (1992) writes: 'information technology neglects issues outside the narrow world of service provision' (pp. 35–51).
Chappell (1992) further argues that since the 1980s SRV has influenced applied enquiry, which set out to investigate and evaluate the quality of services including areas such every bit participation (O'Brien & Johnson 1987) and advocacy (Nicholls & Andrew, 1990). However, in that location are limitations and although applying SRV principles may have helped create the conditions in which people with learning disabilities could speak upwards, Atkinson (2001) argues that in exercise this is non always the case. Also SRV principles were not based on gathering the views of people with learning disabilities but rather on assumed cognition of them (Chappell 1992).
One can attribute, withal, to SRV a function in making inclusive research and service development possible and a standing influence. Information technology helped course the view that people with learning disabilities were human beings deserving ordinary patterns of living and encourages others to view them as potential and valued contributors to service development and research. Occupational therapists can play a key role in this past beingness aware of both the principles and tools bachelor to support inclusion.
The more integrative policies of infirmary closure, rights to schoolhouse education, etc., influenced by SRV take meant that people with learning disabilities are more aware of their rights and are becoming more willing to be involved in research and take opportunities to tell their interesting stories. The opportunity to learn more about their own life histories through access to research skills and to do good others is a significant development for people with learning disabilities (refer to Chapter two). Certainly, the experiences of de-institutionalization and community living take been major areas where researchers have tried to go inside the feel from a user's signal of view (Atkinson 1986, Potts and Fido 1991). The importance of researchers acting as advocates for people so that they can participate fully is one role that occupational therapists may consider. Inter-professional working and seeking support from other team members may also help to develop useful, inclusive research studies that have clear links between research and service development.
A possible reason why research has not addressed the issues of whether enhancing social roles results in an improved quality of life as theorized in SRV, could be that these concepts are very difficult to measure. Occupational therapists tin can contribute to this with use of issue measures (i.e. Assessment of Motor Processing Skills (AMPS), Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM)) and longer-term studies that seek to measure views and behaviours, earlier and after resettlement, for example.
Disabled people's movement
Inquiry on the rights of people with disability has also influenced the development of policy. Ideas developed by disabled people well-nigh the importance of enquiry being a tool for social modify, nearly the need for disabled people to control the calendar, processes and outcomes, and about the necessity of accountability to organizations of disabled people accept been taken up (Aspis 2000). However, much of the research in this expanse has focused on physical disabilities and less so on the problems of people with learning disabilities. This is partly due to the fact that people with learning disabilities have received trivial assistance in participating in, or carrying out research. Cocky-advocacy has been of vital importance in enabling people to find a voice and in recognizing the value which inquiry may have for them (Goodley 1998). People First (Open University 1996), a national self-advocacy charity, describes self-advancement as:
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speaking up for yourself
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standing up for your rights
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being independent
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taking responsibility for yourself.
Many researchers have worked successfully with private self-advocates and with groups to undertake participatory research and insights into the perspectives of people with learning disabilities have been gained. Some have expressed reservations about tokenism; others about the potential of relatively able self-advocates to represent issues related to people with more severe learning disabilities (Walmsley & Downer 1997). More recently, some private self-advocates and one or two groups have begun to question the role of non-disabled allies (researchers) and their right to do enquiry, which are seen to be the rightful property of self-advocates (Aspis 2000). This has, to some extent, created tensions in learning inability services and some dilemmas for those conducting inquiry. The field of study of inquiry enquiry can also extend across the individual receiving services. I also needs to consider the contexts in which services are actually delivered.
An occupational therapist in learning disability services may be office of a community multidisciplinary team, working alongside colleagues from health and social services. Thus while the team might view themselves as i, members might well be managed and governed by ii organizations, one in health and the other in social services, each one having its ain set of standards and targets. Involving service users would thus include unlike organizational systems. The service user might simply be aware of those individuals they take straight contact with. Other people within the arrangement, such as clinical supervisors, could well influence a clinical outcome but this would not necessarily be visible to the service user. Inquiry methods that cutting beyond unlike elements of the service user'due south organisation of support need to be developed farther. Occupational therapists are well placed to influence breaking downwards of service barriers to inclusive research because of their function in both wellness and social care settings.
Reader activity
Reflect on what role as an occupational therapist you might accept to facilitate enquiry across health and social care settings.
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Who would yous need to liaise with to brand this possible?
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Are there any barriers to this happening?
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How could you engage the service user?
Another gene that has received little attending in enquiry is related to intellectual competency. Research should be as inclusive equally possible and the challenge for researchers and service providers is to address how one tin assist people with meaning intellectual impairments and express advice to participate. This too raises problems effectually how one might obtain informed consent from potential inquiry participants. The Mental Chapters Act (2005), implemented in April 2007, sets out key principles in determining capacity around specific decision-making. Occupational therapists need to be enlightened of the provisions of the Deed and seek advice from their colleagues (for instance, the team speech and language therapist and/or psychologist) if it is unclear whether a person has capacity to consent to participate in research.
Thousand. Johnston , D. Bonetti , in International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2001
four Explanatory Models
The three primary explanatory models of the nature of disability are the medical model, the social model, and the psychological model. The ICIDH model is a medical model since information technology conceptualizes disability within a predominantly pathological framework, explaining inability as a consequence of an underlying disease or disorder. Nonetheless, a social model of disability conceptualizes disability in terms of limitations placed on the private due to constraints in the social and physical surround and proposes that functional limitations are determined equally much socially as biologically, for case, by the presence, attitudes, and actions of others (eastward.chiliad., Oliver 1993). Psychological models anticipate disability equally a behavioral construct (e.g., Johnston 1996). These models propose that disability is determined by psychological factors that influence behavior, for example, the individual's beliefs, emotions, skills, and habits.
Medical, social, and psychological models are not necessarily in conflict. Although some level of disability experienced by an private may be related to their degree of harm, there is considerable evidence that much of the variance in disability experienced by an private remains unexplained by underlying pathology or damage (Johnston and Pollard 2001). For instance, McFarlane and Brooks (1988) found that in people with rheumatoid arthritis, psychological factors predicted more variance in ADL three years afterwards than impairment and illness severity measures. Cerebral and emotional manipulations have also influenced the level of disability experienced by individuals nether weather condition where impairment was not affected. Additionally, the major task of rehabilitation therapists is to enable patients to overcome disabilities, often without resolution of underlying impairments. Moreover, many social factors are likely to operate via psychological mechanisms to alter the relationship betwixt the components of the ICIDH model; for example, an environment with barriers to mobility or an overprotective social environment may reduce the individual's confidence with the result that their activities become even more limited. An explanatory model of disability which combines medical, psychological, and social factors would appear to be needed.
Indeed, the ICIDH model was recently modified to allow for the possibility that disability may be influenced by factors other than structure and role (WHO 1998). The revisions added complication past proposing opposite causality, then that harm may both result in, and result from, limitations in activity which may in turn determine, or be determined by, lack of social participation. Information technology also introduced the possibility that contextual factors, both ecology and personal, can explain the level of inability experienced by an individual. In addition, the utilise of the terms 'inability' and 'handicap' were dropped in lodge to 'avert deprecation, stigmatization and undue connotations' (WHO 1998, p. 19). Disability and handicap were redefined and renamed action and participation. Activity is defined as the nature and extent of functioning at the level of the person and disability every bit the activity limitations of the individual person, whereas participation is divers in relation to the social context as the 'nature and extent of a person's involvement in life situations in relationship to harm, activities, wellness conditions, and contextual factors.' This amended model of the consequences of disease is depicted in Fig. 1.
Figure 1. International Classification of Impairments, Disabilities and Handicaps (ICIDH-2; WHO 1998)
While consistent with previous research which has shown a meager human relationship betwixt impairment and disability, and that changes in disability have occurred without concurrent changes in harm, the ICIDH (WHO 1998) model is notwithstanding vague about exactly which psychological and social factors contribute to explaining, and thereby predicting, disability.
Julie H. Barlow , in Comprehensive Clinical Psychology, 1998
8.18.five.4 Social Impact: Guild
There is a tendency for health-related research to be framed within the medical model of inability, whereby "the problem" is considered to exist a deficit in adjustment, motivation, or ability of the person with arthritis. This model construes professionals as the experts, who arbitrate with "solutions" for those lacking in cognition and expertise. In dissimilarity, the social model of inability suggests that problems derive from the attitudinal, environmental, and organizational barriers faced by people with arthritis (Barlow & Harrison, 1996).
Arthritis is by and large viewed as a condition associated with old historic period. This attitude derives from a lack of understanding in social club, and is a constant source of frustration for young people and children who are told that they "cannot accept arthritis" because they are "too young." The upshot of such attitudes serves to deny their personal feel and identity.
The bodily impact of arthritis tin can be visible or invisible, as well as permanent or temporary. Social expectations can vary according to the visibility or invisibility of disabilities (Stone, 1995). Hence, it is difficult to explicate how one can exist relatively gratuitous from pain ane day, simply in agony and unable to movement the next. People with invisible or fluctuating arthritis tin can be accused of existence lazy, malingering, or using their status as an alibi for failing to run across the expectations of others in their social network. When arthritis is visible in that location is an overwhelming propensity for people to see the arthritis rather than the person, resulting in feelings of being unlike, marginalization, and exclusion.
Young people and children often miss long periods of schooling during times of an arthritis "flare." The choice between segregation, if steered downwards the special needs road, or isolation, if left trying to cope in unsupportive and disabling institutions, is a faux dichotomy faced by many young people. Institutional regulations oftentimes dictate inflexible working or school hours causing difficulties for those who feel fatigue as an integral role of their condition. Fatigue tin can render the private unable to muster the intellectual or physical capacity necessary to negotiate a day in instruction or work.
Environmental barriers frequently derive from the inappropriate pattern of concrete infrastructures that finer limit non only admission to buildings and public transport, but besides liberty of movement one time inside. Buses with high steps, the lack of ramps at the entrance to buildings, and the scarcity of disabled toilets are examples of ecology barriers frequently cited by people with arthritis of all ages (Barlow et al., 1997; Williams, Cullen, & Barlow, 1996). Restricted access to buildings and transport have major implications for leisure pursuits and establishing a social life. Everyday activities, such as shopping or going to the movie house, become significant feats of negotiation, endurance, and even run a risk taking.
A positive outlook, cocky-esteem, and self-confidence become difficult to maintain. Feelings of isolation, anger, and being different are common (Barlow & Cullen, 1996; Barlow et al., 1997). Finding a relevant peer grouping, through voluntary organizations or back up groups, can enable people with arthritis to experience part of a community, a group with shared experiences and and values (Barlow, Cullen, Davis, & Williams, 1997). Such feelings of belonging tin also exist engendered by attention psychological interventions based on group formats, which offer the opportunity for participants to run across with similar others and to talk over mutual concerns.
Desleigh de Jonge B.Occ.Thy, M. Phil. (Occ. Thy), Grad Cert Soc Sci (Health Practise) , ... Sylvia Rodger B.Occ.Thy, Thousand.Ed.St., PhD , in Assistive Technology in the Workplace, 2007
SUMMARY
Advances in applied science accept had a visible impact on society and, in item, the workplace. Applied science has changed the nature of work available and increased the piece of work opportunities for people with disabilities. Both mainstream and AT developments have extended the capabilities of people with disabilities and enabled them to work alongside their nondisabled peers in competitive employment.
Traditionally people with disabilities have been divers as disabled because of their specific impairments, such as loss of physical function every bit the result of illness or injury. More than recently, the WHO has proposed a social model of inability (ICF), which views disability as an inability to participate in activities, and this may be to the result of a number of factors, such equally environment obstacles or the attitudes of coworkers (Figure one-six).59 People with disabilities seeking to proceeds or maintain employment should non be viewed as disabled because they have an harm, simply rather their mode of operating in the work context requires adaptation or accommodation to ensure their connected performance in the work environment.
Antidiscrimination legislation has provided people with disabilities with protection against discrimination. Through this legislation the employer is required to provide reasonable accommodations for the person with a disability. Still, the employment rate of people with disabilities and the number of discrimination claims enhance questions near the effectiveness of this legislation. Lilliputian is known about the barriers to competitive employment experienced by AT users.
Technology-related legislation in the United States has resulted in the development of services for people with disabilities. All the same, consumers and service providers continue to take difficulty accessing information about technologies and services available. Studies in the mail service-legislation U.S. environment suggest that a greater appreciation of people's experiences in identifying appropriate AT and integrating it into the workplace will assist in understanding the type of services required and how to make these services accessible to the people who need them.
The literature highlights a range of challenges to integrating AT into the workplace. A deeper understanding of the actual experiences of people successfully using AT in the workplace allows services to exist tailored more effectively to individuals and their unique work environments. Although the focus in the literature has been primarily on gaining employment, it is vital that people with disabilities are able to maintain their employment, move to other jobs, and progress in their careers. Many changes occur in the workplace that touch on AT use and the long-term viability of employment, which also needs to be better understood. A deeper understanding of the bodily experiences of people successfully using engineering science in the workplace and how they office within the piece of work environment (from the user'south perspective) is also required to tailor services more effectively to individuals and their unique work environments. The heterogeneity of people, the technology, services, and work environments has contributed to difficulties in measuring the effectiveness of technology in assisting people in the workplace.17 A greater appreciation of this heterogeneity is required before we tin can brainstorm to evaluate the effectiveness of technology and back up services in enabling people with a range of applied science skills and experience.17,52
The function of technology in enabling people with disabilities to be more independent is gaining increased attending. Technologic advances have changed the nature of the workplace and have altered the perception that work happens in a specific place and time, and is carried out in a specific way. For some people with disabilities, developments in mainstream engineering alone have been plenty to enable them to be part of the workforce; however, the development of specialized technologies has further enabled people with disabilities to compete more deservedly with their athletic peers for employment.
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