Theoretical Models of Disability
This model views disability as a problem caused by disease, trauma, or health condition requiring medical care.
What is the medical model?
This sensory disability involves partial to total loss of vision.
What is blindness?
Text with insufficient contrast is a barrier for people with this type of disability.
What is visual disability?
This is an audio track that describes and gives context for essential visual information.
What is audio description?
Always do this before guiding a person with vision loss.
What is ask them if they want assistance (or any variant of this)?
This model identifies functional impairments and seeks to address them through technology or innovation.
What is the functional solutions model?
This disability affects distinguishing between colors like red and green.
What is color vision deficiency?
Lack of sign language interpretation at events is a barrier for people with this disability.
What is auditory disability/deafness?
These programmable devices can convert digital content into tactile language for deaf-blind users.
What is a refreshable braille device?
According to the World Health Organization, most people with vision impairments are over this age.
What is 50 years old?
This model says social barriers, not personal impairments, are the main source of disability.
What is the social model?
Touch is the primary means of communication for people with this dual sensory disability.
What is deaf-blindness?
Complex communication systems and not enough time to communicate are barriers for people with this disability.
What is Language and Speech Disabilities?
This assistive method uses physical sensations such as vibrations to impart information through a digital interface.
What is a haptic alert/feedback?
What percentage of the global population is deaf-blind?
What is between 0.2-2%?
This model assesses disability by its impact on participation in work and productivity.
What is the economic model?
A person having trouble with sounds but with no measurable hearing loss may have this condition.
What is Central Auditory Processing Disorder?
Websites that do not work fully with a keyboard create barriers for people with this type of sensory impairment.
What is visual disability/blindness?
AAC devices are primarily designed to help people with difficulties in this ability.
What is producing speech or communication?
Globally, what number of people have a vision impairment that could have been prevented?
What is 1 billion?
WHO's International Classification of Functioning (ICF) is based on this model.
What is the biopsychosocial model?
A neurological damage resulting in impaired language production or comprehension is called this.
What is aphasia?
Lack of Braille transcripts for video or audio materials especially disadvantages people with this type of disability.
CART and STTR help individuals with what type of disability during live presentations?
What is auditory disabilities?
How many people in the European Union use sign language as their first language?
What is 750,000 people?