Beyond Fixing: Applying the Social Model of Disability in Health Care Practice
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"Beyond Fixing: Applying the Social Model of Disability in Health Care Practice Health professions training tends to center the medical model of disability, which frames difference as something to diagnose, treat, and ideally eliminate. But decades of research across disciplines suggest that quality of life outcomes depend just as much on how clinicians understand and relate to disability as on the interventions themselves. In this presentation, Dr. Cody Dew, Assistant Professor of Speech-Language Pathology at Binghamton University, explores the tension between the medical and social models of disability and what it looks like in practice when clinicians learn to hold both. Drawing on…
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