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Disability and Identity

1. DEFINITIONS

   • Disabled : a physical or mental impairment which has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on a persons ability to carry out normal day to day activities.
   • Master Status : the status of greatest importance in a particular person's life.
   • Impaired : is some abnormal functioning of the body or mind, either than one is born with or which arises from injury or disease.
     • It only becomes a disability when it prevents people from carrying out normal day to day activities.

2. MEDICAL MODEL of DISABILITY

   • Defines disability in terms of a persons inability to generally function and take care of themselves.
   • Labelled as inferior
     • Medical model assume that the impaired was to be abnormal and that normalisation could only occur with recovery from this.