Remember back to the first time you remember thinking about or noticing disability. What happened? How did you react? What does that say about the ways we learn about disability?

Choose one of the reflect options below to think on your own experiences in relation to meaning making of disability and then connect those to the file attached below.

How do we make sense of disability?
Option 1: Remember back to the first time you remember thinking about or noticing disability. What happened? How did you react? What does that say about the ways we learn about disability?
Option 2: Ask two people (can be children or adults) how they would define disability. Record their answers. How are they similar and/or different from your own? How do their answers align with the medical and/or social model? Why do you think that is? Feel free to draw a visual, use a venn diagram or make a chart.
Engage
Connect your reflection with references to BaglieriLalvani2020_Chapter2.
The following questions may guide those connections (don’t feel like you need to answer them all, there just starting points):
Describe the concept of “normal,” where this idea originated and why is this concept particularly damaging?
What are the two models of disability? Compare and contrast these models.
How do you see evidence of the medical model of disability in early childhood settings?
How do technological advancements affect perceptions of disability?

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