Medical model of disability

Populations that deal with increasing vulnerability to health disparities and may withstand increased barriers when receiving primary care are individuals with developmental disabilities. There are approximately 54 million people in the United States that have some type of medical, developmental, or physical disability (Buttaro, Trybulski, Bailey, & Sandberg-Cook, 2013). These disabling conditions may range from physical, emotional, or mental limitations. The physical impairments can include…

When you apply Porter’s Five Forces model to the healthcare niche industry for the developmentally delayed and analyze for competitive advantage, the competition is currently not as strong among existing organizations due to a smaller concentration of group homes and adult respite care facilities. Due to the limited competition, residents do not move from one group home to another very often so family or the placement agency will consider all factors such as pricing, employee qualifications,…

vast majority of my employment experiences in the social service and educational sectors involved serving people with diverse disabilities. They include Autism; Asperger’s Syndrome; Attention Deficit Disorder; Deaf/hard-of-hearing; speech disabilities; visual impairment; mobility challenges; learning disabilities; psychiatric disabilities; brain injuries and medical disabilities such as epilepsy, chemical dependency and HIV/AIDS. I have nearly five years experience in the educational sector…

2015 Moral Abandonment in Nature Tobais Wolff’s “Hunters in the Snow”, is a bleak story of three friends on a routine hunting trip in Spokane, Washington. Richardson and Lock’s ideas on enfreakment as “part of the collective norm" and the medical model of disability play a significant role in how the men treat each other as Wolff characterizes a trio of selfishly driven “friends” who really only care about their own well-being (R&L 58-63). This implicit and explicit characterization, coupled…

functioning and participation in society. The described scenario is the also the ethical dilemma facing Centerville’s Christian nurses. The nurses see firsthand the economic disparity in the two populations. They also understand the link between the medical infrastructure and the general infrastructure of Centerville. The link is the health care delivery system should provide fair and just allocation of resources, much as the city of Centerville should provide adequate access to transportation,…

morally unjust for non-medical purposes. Now that we have other means of testing products, the purpose of animals has become purely to save money and time. It’s time our society and our governments stood up to giant corporations and showed them who’s in charge of whom. (1) Commercial animal testing is inhumane. In The United States, there is something called the federal welfare act. The federal welfare act ensures animals used for testing have the proper shelter, handling, medical care, food,…

“Integrating Disability, Transforming Feminist Thought” by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson takes a disability studies approach to redefining how we think of identity in a feminist context. Written in 2002, this piece neatly falls into what could be classified as a staple of Third Wave Feminism, in that it takes a more intersectional approach, considering not only how disability factors in with an individual’s sense of self, but also how it interacts with other areas of a person’s life. Specifically,…

The fastest growing disability right now is Autism. According to Gargiulo (2014), Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that affects one’s ability on their social interaction skills. An individual with ASD also displays repetitive interests and behaviors and an impaired development in verbal and non-verbal communication. Some of the many characteristics of individuals with ASD are aggressiveness, hyperactiveness, short attention span, impulsive, hard time concentrating,…

physician and activist for those with mental debilities, Dr. Jerome Lejeune discovered that, “Being a ‘mongoloid’ is the result of a chromosomal abnormality—three copies of chromosome 21 (instead of two). The term Trisomy 21 starts to gain usage in the medical community to describe people with the condition” (“History of Down Syndrome”). Three years later, researcher discovered a type of Trisomy 21 entitled Mosaicism. In the 1970s, the life expectancy of a person with Down syndrome was only…

The Social Ecological Model enables barriers and facilitators to an individual’s occupational performance to be identified and characterized into five levels, each level entailing factors impacting the individual on that level. These levels of influence break down the various factors impacting the individual and categorize them accordingly. This model is based on the belief that no single factor can directly prove cause and effect; each level of influence and the interaction amongst the levels…