What's the word?
The belief that disabled people should strive to “overcome” their impairments to fit into society is rooted in this ideology.
What is normalcy?
Grounded in the lived experiences of disabled people, this field critiques ableist structures and seeks to dismantle oppressive systems.
What is critical disability studies?
The concept of “normal” is often rooted in the physical, cognitive and social standards of this dominant group.
What is white people?
This professional helps individuals develop or regain the skills needed to participate in daily life and meaningful activities.
What is an occupational therapist?
This model views disability as a biological defect requiring medical intervention.
What is the biomedical/medical model?
This term describes the societal expectation that able-bodiedness is the default state, marginalizing disabled bodies.
What is ableism?
Acknowledging them with pride and dignity. Treat them as equal humans.
What are the strategies rehabilitation professionals use to deal with disabled people?
This The medicalization of “deviant” bodies and minds reinforces the idea that anything outside of normal functioning needs this.
What is correction or cure?
This profession often sits at the top of the rehabilitation hierarchy, with authority over diagnosis, treatment plans, and interdisciplinary teams.
What is medical doctors?
This model rejects the idea that disabled people need to be “fixed” and instead promotes pride, agency, and positive identity.
What is the affirmative model of disability?
This term describes discrimination and oppression against people with mental illness, rooted in societal assumptions of incompetence and danger.
What is sanism?
Disability scholars argue that this framework, while inclusive, risks reinforcing ableist assumptions through its focus on functionality.
What is the International Classification of Functioning (ICF)?
Disabled people who do not “improve” in rehabilitation are often framed as failures due to this focus.
What is normalcy?
Rehabilitation programs often prescribe these devices to improve functional independence.
What are assistive devices?
This hybrid model integrates medical, psychological and social dimensions to understand disability.
What is the biopsychosocial model?
A key concept in disability studies, and other critical social sciences, this term highlights the overlapping identities of race, gender, and disability in experiences of oppression.
What is intersectionality?
A super crip is person who has a disability and it is able to overcome it in inspirational way.A poster child is a disabled child that raises funds.
According to Magasi (2008), what do the terms “super crip” and “ poster child” mean?
This statistical term, often used in medical and psychological assessments, reinforces the idea of a “normal” body and mind.
What is the bell curve?
A shift toward this model in rehabilitation emphasizes collaboration, shared decision-making, and respecting the patient’s autonomy.
What is patient-centered care?
Medical narratives often focus on “fixing” disabled bodies and frame disability as individual contributing to this harmful emotional response.
What is shame?
Michel Foucault’s concept that society disciplines bodies through norms and expectations.
What is biopower?
Unlike traditional disability rights frameworks, this approach acknowledges how ableism intersects with race, class, gender, and colonialism.
What is disability justice?
Colonialism enforced a binary between “able-bodied” and “disabled" excluding these knowledge systems that reject binary frameworks.
What is Indigenous and non-Western knowledge systems?
Rehabilitation often focuses on helping disabled children “catch up” to their peers by developing “normal” motor, cognitive and social skills because of this.
What is the normalization of disabled children?
This model critiques paternalistic rehabilitation practices and advocates for empowering disabled patients.
What is the empowerment model?