REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION

Reasonable Accommodation

Analyse the notion of 'reasonable accommodation' for disabled people embodied in the 1995 Disability Discrimination Act, tracing its intellectual lineage in terms of changing societal responses to disability

Introduction

The essay is targeted to provide thorough understanding of Disability Discrimination Act 1995. It provides insights into three main areas changes form American acts to DDA, existence of the DDA due to Human Right, and changes in different terms for disabled people in terms of being political correctness and from medical model and social model.

Part 1

People with disabilities have been portrayed as insane, deserve compassion, not as individuals who have a right to enjoy the same opportunities to live full and satisfying life as other members of society. This approach was also accompanied by thinking about disability (known as "medical model" of disability, among other names), which was described in the following conditions:

"Disability is usually formulated within the medical and welfare framework, identifying people with disabilities as a patient, differs from their non-disabled and need help. Since the emphasis is on the medical needs of people with disabilities, there is a corresponding neglect of their broader social needs. This has led to severe isolation for people with disabilities and their families." (Oliver, 1990, p. 57)

Medical Model

Finkelstein (1991) regrets widely accepted medical model, but treats it as a component of a broader model, which he defines as a model of "social death" of disability. He criticizes the work of Miller and Gwyn (1972) for adoption: "The simplistic assumption that being disabled means that a person is not intrinsically, is equal to their peers (ie, without assistance, non-being)" (p. 26).

Brisenden (1986) as opposed to the medical model and asserts that the emphasis on clinical proceedes diagnosed partial and inhibiting view of disability, (p. 173). He says that this model does not account for the fact that frequent hospitalization and medical care, self by turning out the factors that people with disabilities. He also suggests that people should be able to determine how specific medical suugestion fits into the overall health economy of his life (2000, p. 25).

In recent years, however, this approach has been replaced by a broader understanding of disability, called the "social model". This analysis recognizes that the circumstances of people with disabilities and the discrimination they faced, socially created phenomena and have little to do with violations of people with disabilities.

According to the medical model, which is primarily expressed through the definition of the World's, the disabled individual is regarded as a problem (Oliver, 1990, p. 65).

This model considers the body as diseased or defective, and as needing treatment. He believes people with disabilities are sometimes physically unable to do those daily activities, non-disabled people can take for granted, as their bodies. For example, it is seen as better - and more "normal" - for a person to be able to stand and walk, even if slowly and with difficulty, than around more quickly and comfortably in a wheelchair.

The problem with the medical model is that it only highlights some ...