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Re:Touchscreens are out, and tactile controls are back by NavinF on Monday November 04, 2024 @08:06PM (#42047714)
As he noted, many people claim to use an integrated model. It's a motte and bailey.

>I’ve never heard anyone willing to defend the actual Social Model the way it’s taught in every course, written on every website, and defined by every government agency. Everyone says they mean the Interactionist Model. Yet somehow, the official descriptions still say that disability is only social and not related to disease, and that you may only treat it with accommodations and not with medical care.

> the topic is taught in a way that only occasionally nods to such a compromise; more often the Medical Model is condemned as outdated and bigoted, and the Social Model introduced as the new, acceptable version that people should use

He quotes many sources that take the social model literally even in the 2020s

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Re:Touchscreens are out, and tactile controls are back by dahauns on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @06:04AM (#42050506)
Yeah...I actually didn't want to get all, well, "geographical", but I can't help wonder if that's a US thing? At least here in Austria, the biopsychosocial model has been standard in teaching for a long time, and while it will still take some time for the generational shift in practice to conclude, monofactorial models have generally been accepted as being obsolete.

And regarding the BPS model: I stand corrected about my agreement - the point he makes about it I very much disagree with:

>This isn’t an exact match for a model of disability; the Biopsychosocial Model is most often used to explain the causes of illness, not how it impairs people. Still, I think there is a close enough analogy that it could be easily extended to disability.

He really shoud at least have read the Beginners Guide to the WHO ICF (which is deeply rooted in the BPSM) https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/icf-beginner-s-guide...

Both the model as a model of disability and a focus on impairment can be found front and center.

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Re:Touchscreens are out, and tactile controls are back by NavinF on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @09:13PM (#42072575)
Considering that all of Scott's quoted sources are American, I wouldn't be surprised if your country doesn't have the same issue. I assure you that a lot of American institutions take the Social Model of Disability literally while claiming to use a multifactorial model.
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