Elizabeth McGhee Hassrick, PhD is the Lab Director. The SoDI Lab applies the social model of disability, primarily targeting research and interventions that change society to improve the outcomes of ...

These factors interact with disability to shape individuals’ experiences and the barriers they face. According to the social model, ‘disability’ refers to the ways that socially constructed barriers ...

These questions were later criticized because they did not align with the social model of disability, which frames disability not only as an individual attribute but also as a result of societal ...

The idea of barriers is an important one in the social model of disability. According to this model, disability comes not from the existence of an impairment but from barriers that society creates.

At the Global Disability Summit (GDS), the Education International (EI) delegation reaffirmed that inclusive education is a fundamental human right and key to thriving communities. They championed a ...

“The Government must shift its focus from a medical model of disability to the social model, or risk doing real harm to an ...

The experience of disabled people in the United States is significantly shaped by health and social policy and policy administration, which are all too often designed by non-disabled people situated ...