The benefit and point of this model is the fact that it displays the life experiences that disabled people have every day and shows how exclusion of the disabled could be avoided while they would not need to change who they represent and are as a person. In this case, it would be assumed and aimed for them to receive the same opportunities as every other person.
This model was originally created by disabled people to fight against their domination from the rest and their injustice.
There is a traditional medical model existing that describes a disabled person, such as listing all the points that are examples of what a person cannot do, such as walk, talk or see. Which then concluded that they also automatically won’t work or do anything supportive.
On the other hand the social model of disability presents all the points and examples in society, that are excluding them and the way society is structured in which they are not receiving a chance to be part of performing equal activities.
The reason why it is so important to look at this is due to the fact of how many people are affected by it. According to WHO, about one billion people suffer from a stroke.
Overall, the medical tool of disability reflects the fact that the disability is the issue inside an individual and the reason why they are not able to perform normally in society is their deficiency.
The general focus lays on the issue being the person and not the environment. For instance, a patient in a wheelchair not being able to move around a building and them having issues with it is due to them not being able to, not the building’s issue.
This model makes the disabled often feel unwelcome and eliminated from the rest and society.
To summarize the social model of disability, which was created in the 70’s and 80’s by activists, claims that if our surroundings and society build in the way that everyone could move, nobody would feel restricted in the first place. This model claims that no person is the issue, but simply the way houses or institutions are often built. Simple integrations would even make this possible, such as building entrances in a different way.
Dr. Nancy Doyle mentioned in a Forbes article that if a city or cities would be build then everyone could use them without any issue, the disabled would not feel like there would be an issue anymore.
https://www.thesocialcreatures.org/thecreaturetimes/the-social-model-of-disability