Walking aids disability awareness

From the beginning, mythical perceptions and stereotypical attitudes have portrayed individuals with disabilities as different, aberrant, deficient, incompetent, and more. But like gender and ethnicity, disability is simply one of many natural characteristics of being human. Today's conventional wisdom about disability is based on the Medical Model: identify the problem, and then provide a cure. This paradigm places the "problem" of disability within the person, so treatments and services attempt to "fix" the person: helping him achieve an "able-bodied" standard through therapies and other interventions and/or placing him in special, sheltered, segregated settings in order to "get him ready" for life in the real world. In the minds of many, these efforts will resolve the "problem" of disability.

But the problem never has been the disability; the problem is (and has always been) society's beliefs about disability. People with disabilities are not broken, and they don't need to be fixed. To solve this kind of perception towards people with disabilities, we should start having knowledge about disability and how we will be going to treat those people. We should be sensible enough to understand the causes of their deficiencies and on how they interact to the people in their environment.

Disability awareness is more on promoting understanding of issues surrounding disability, encourages service providers to focus on the individual, not the disability. It's on developing an understanding of appropriate and effective methods of interaction with people with disabilities., fostering on the ways in which the information needs of people with physical disabilities can be met and to develop an awareness of issues relating to physical access to education.

In the medical model, you will learn that we should see the disabled person as the problem. We are to be adapted to fit into the world as it is. Its usual focus is on the impairment, rather than the needs of the person. The power to change us seems to lie within the medical and associated professions, with their talk of cures, normalization and science. While social model explains that disabled people's movement believes the 'cure' to the problem of disability lies in the restructuring of society.