Prerequisites of Appearance and Formation of Modern Outlook With Respect to Disability Models: International Experience

The article considers objective approaches to formation of outlook with respect to problems of handicapped persons on the basis of disability models that were formed during a certain period of time, which, on the one hand, are designed for understanding how handicapped persons feel and experience their disability, and, on the other hand, in order to provide the society with information about development of legislative and regulatory acts and programmes that influence their lives. It specifies shortcomings and advantages of the existing models. It also adds to classification of disability models by means of allocation of eugenic and monistic models.