EEX 3093 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Disability, Hearing Loss, Intersectionality
12 Oct 2018
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EEX 3093
MIDTERM EXAM
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Fall 2018
Models and Terminology Lecture Notes
Week 2
What did you assume about CP before hearing from Maysoon?
What aspects of her identity…
• could cause/have caused her to face discrimination?
o Her disorder
• could cause/have caused her to face prejudice?
• could cause/have caused her to face stereotyping?
o People with CP do not walk- she beat those odds by pushing herself
o That she will not go anywhere in life- but she went to college, stand-up comedian,
walked
Models and terminology:
• Popular models of disability:
o Social
o Medical
o Tragedy-charity
o Religious
o Economic
o Customer-empowering
• Social model
o Looks at the environment in terms of accessibility to the individual
▪ The environment may be inaccessible by:
• Buildings, services
• Communication, language
o This model looks external to the individual
▪ Attitudes are inhibiting
• Prejudice, stereotyping, discrimination
▪ Organizations are inflexible
• Procedures, policies
o This model was developed in response to the medical model
• Medical Model
o Look to diagnose and cure
▪ Always looking for a problem and how to solve that problem
o Disability is caused by a physical, mental, or sensory impairment
o The individual is impaired and is the problem
▪ Hence they are not normal
o The focus of this model is to cute of alleviate the effect of the impairment
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▪ Foster existing prejudices
• Tragedy-charity
o Think about commercial or ad that talks about for 30 dollars a month if you
send in donation, we can cure cancer
o Assumes need and required care:
▪ People with disabilities are depicted as victims of circumstances
• Deserving pity
o For fund raising purpose
▪ Lowers self-esteem of the disabled person
o People with disabilities need care (medical Model) and historically, that care
resulted in institutionalization or preventing access to society
• Religious moral model
o Grounded in religion or morality
o Draws on cultural beliefs
▪ Disability might be a punishment
• For past sins
• Evil spirits
▪ Disability might be interpreted as a necessary affliction before some
future spiritual reward
o In some cultures it may be seen as a gift
▪ The family with a child who has a disability are virtuous and able to
handle the disability
o Challenge
▪ Seeing it as a sin:
• Exorcism, persecution, sacrifice, even death
• Economic model
o Think about the economic impact of having a disability
o Financial impact:
▪ Disability is defined by a person’s inability to work
▪ Used by policy makers to assess distribution of support
• Customer empowering model
o Focuses on the individual as capable decision maker
▪ Opposite of the expert model
▪ The customer or individual selects/decides what services they believe
are appropriate
o Sees the individual as capable decision maker
▪ Wants the financial resources under the control of the person with
disabilities
▪ Its empowering
• Based on the videos we watched, what elements of the various models were prevalent
in each?
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