Outdated models of disability still dominate thinking in our built environment. Approaches grounded in old medical and ...

Ways of thinking about disability differ across cultures and can be classified into three general models: the moral model, the medical model, and the social model (Olkin & Pledger, 2003). Under the ...

August 2, 2014 (WLS) -- Models of Diversity promotes hiring people of all races, ages, sizes and disabilities in the fashion industry. The organization started six years ago in the United Kingdom, and ...

Meet Jane and John. Jane is able-bodied, and John is someone with a physical disability. As a result, John uses a wheelchair. Both are presented with a task to walk up a set of stairs. Jane has no ...

Disability forms part of a man’s condition. At one point or the other, almost everyone will be impaired temporarily or permanently. It is a multiplex, progressive, contested, and a subject that is ...

The narratives embedded in disability policy influence everything from budget priorities to program eligibility and ...

It's not easy to find models with disabilities in ads for the fashion and beauty industry — unless you look in the Nordstrom catalog. The company has been using models with disabilities since 1997 and ...