Viewpoints toward disability Conceptualizing disability in adapted physical education

• Published in: Routledge Handbook of Adapted Physical Education pp. 48 - 64
• Main Authors: Haslett, Damian, Smith, Brett
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 2020
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: ADHD; View Disability; Disabled People; In-service Physical Educators; UNCRPD; SRM; Social Model; Impairment Effects; Disability Studies; Pe; Structural Disablism; Critical Disability Studies; Adapted Physical Activity; Disability Sport; Motor Skill Intervention; ICF; Adapted Physical; Medical Model; Psycho Emotional Disablism; Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder; Human Rights Model; Ape; Young Disabled People; Single Subject Design; Understand Disability
• ISBN: 0367146118; 9780367146115
• DOI: 10.4324/9780429052675-5

How we view disability is important. In this chapter, we evaluate the various ways that those interested in adapted physical education (APE) can explain and understand disability. First, two traditional conceptualizations of disability are critically examined: the medical and the social models of disability. Having highlighted their limitations, two more recent models are then explained: the social relational model and the human rights model of disability. Throughout the chapter, examples of research from the field of APE, using these various viewpoints, are provided. We close with a set of future directions to help view disability in APE. The directions offered for consideration highlight a focus on critical disability studies.