Throughout my working career I plan to utilize the critical model of disability, with a strong emphasis on both the social and cultural model of disability. I hope to encourage the young people I work with to view their disability outside the medical box it was put into. The critical model of disability views “disability [as] a social construct, not the inevitable consequence of impairment” (Hosking, p.7) and that people who are disabled are at a social disadvantage because their environment “fails to meet the needs of people who do not match the social expectation of ‘normalcy” (Hosking, p.7). From the perspective of the critical model, I want to inform and educate young people of how disabilities are something that we as a society created
