Disability and human supports

Authors

  • Jeff McNair California Baptist University, California, USA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15566/cjgh.v2i2.86

Keywords:

models of disability, human services and disability studies,

Abstract

This article provides a brief overview of models of disability growing out of the field of disability studies and leading to a call for interventions going beyond a simply medical model approach. A brief discussion of human supports/services is provided such that readers engaged in the development of services/supports can base them on best principles.

Author Biography

Jeff McNair, California Baptist University, California, USA

Professor of Special Education

Director Moderate/Severe Educational Specialist program

Director Online MA in Disability Studies

Director Policy Center, Joni and Friends, Christian Institute on Disability

References

Basnett, I. (2001). Health care professionals and their attitudes toward and decisions affecting disabled people. In Albrect, Seelman & Bury (eds.), Handbook of Disability Studies. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. (450-467)

Berger, P. & Luckman, T. (1966). The social construction of reality. Middleton, Great Britain: Penguin Books.

Kaplan, D. (nd). The definition of disability. Available at http://www.accessiblesociety.org/topics/demographics-identity/dkaplanpaper.htm

O’Brien, J. & O’Brien, C. (1992). Members of each other: Perspectives on social support for people with severe disabilities. In J. Nisbet (ed.) Natural supports in school, at work, and in the community for people with severe disabilities. Baltimore, MD: Brookes. (p. 17-63)

Oliver (1990), The individual and social models of disability. Available at http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/archiveuk/Oliver/in%20soc%20dis.pdf

Oliver, M. (1996). Understanding disability: from theory to practice. Basingstoke: Macmillan.

Reinders. H. S. (2011). The power of inclusion and friendship. Presentation at the national meeting of the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, St. Paul, MN.

Shakespeare, T. & Watson , N (2002). The social model of disability: An outdated ideology? Research in Social Science and Disability, 2. Available at http://disability-

studies.leeds.ac.uk/files/library/Shakespeare-social-model-of-disability.pdf

Downloads

Published

2015-11-05

How to Cite

McNair, J. (2015). Disability and human supports. Christian Journal for Global Health, 2(2), 10–15. https://doi.org/10.15566/cjgh.v2i2.86

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 2 (2015): Disability, Rehabilitation and Human Value

Section

Commentaries

License

Christian Journal for Global Health applies the Creative Commons Attribution License to all articles that we publish. Under this license, authors retain ownership of copyright for their articles or they can transfer copyright to their institution, but authors allow anyone without permission to copy, distribute, transmit, and/or adapt articles, even for commercial purposes so long as the original authors and Christian Journal for Global Health are appropriately cited.

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.