Quotes of importance:
“Where the autonomous model regards literacy as an individual achievement, the medical model views disability as an individual problem” (Brewster, 2004, p. 46).
“The social model of disability acknowledges the oppression shared by all disabled people despite the widely differing nature of their intellectual, sensory or physical impairments” (Brewster, 2004, p. 47).
“If one adopts a social model of disability, the barriers to certain activities are often revealed to be not as a result of the impairments themselves” (Brewster, 2004, p. 49).
“A social perspective provides a useful framework for the study of disability and literacy. The approach brings into sharper focus the shortcomings of the traditional conceptualizations of the ‘medical model’ and of literacy being merely a set of cognitive skills. If these traditional models are retained, practitioners in both the disability and literacy fields will not be equipped to address these coexisting sources of disadvantage” (Brewster, 2004, p. 51).
References:
Brewster, S. (2004) Insights from a Social Model of Literacy and Disability. Literacy, UKLA
