Theoretizing The Models Of Disability Philosophical Social And Medical Concepts- An Empirical Research Based On Existing Literature

Over the years, perceptions towards disability have varied significantly from one community to another in time to time. Limited literature is available in disability history, concepts and varied models. This situation continues to pose a great challenge to governments, policy makers, other agencies and students of disability studies. In their endeavour to trace the development and formation of policies and perceptions towards persons with disabilities. It is towards this end, this article seeks to present a coherent literature review of disability studies based on existing literature. That influence perceptions and policy matters towards children, women and adults with disabilities. This article provides a few diagrammatical representation that illustrate different models of disability. These models are being taken by the academicians, international community, several bodies and countries to improve disability perception and betterment of policy decisions. Construction of disability from different perspectives and its implications have been a major challenge in the modern and developing world order. The generally adopted and accepted concepts of disability narrowing the definitions of disability and confines and limited it to “blindness; low vision; leprosy-cured. In each of these models there is a practical issue, How does the model and its way of thinking, relate to the outcomes for people with disabilities and their families? Such a question assumes that individuals who deal with policy in any aspect based on these varied models in mind will deliberately or not, reach some conclusions about people with disabilities and their families. And also the policies that should apply to them. There is a danger in discussing issues related with disability, that is it will end up with more models and concepts than a clear one . The implementation of policies for the empowerment of disabled population based of different concepts and varied models ultimately leads to worsen their conditions in real life