Intellectual Liability: The Social Model Of Disability

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According to Dickerson (1991), an intellectual disability is the “significant sub-average general intellectual functioning existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behaviours, and manifested during the developmental period” (p.21).
The social model of disability accentuates that disability is socially constructed by the interaction between the cultural and structural aspects of society (Bigby, &Frawley, 2010, p. 12).This is backed up by Oliver (1996), who states that it is not the impairment that causes disability, but instead it is society that disables people through negative attitudes, individual prejudice, segregated education, exclusion from services and denial of rights.
Individuals with an intellectual disability are also often

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