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Disability arises from the interaction between an organism's traits and its environment, challenging individual-centric models. This ecological perspective offers a more accurate understanding of disability experiences.

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Background:

  • Current disability models (medical, social, interactionist) often focus on etiology.
  • These models implicitly assume disability is solely an individual property, overlooking environmental factors.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a novel analysis of disability.
  • To propose an ecological interpretation of disability.
  • To address limitations of existing disability models.

Main Methods:

  • Critically analyze mainstream disability models (medical, social, interactionist).
  • Introduce an ecological framework for understanding disability, drawing from research on biological niches.
  • Develop a new conceptualization of disability as an organism-environment interaction.

Main Results:

  • Identified a shared assumption in existing models: disability as an individual property.
  • Proposed an ecological model where disabling conditions are properties of organisms within specific environments.
  • This framework preserves insights from prior approaches while offering a more nuanced view.

Conclusions:

  • Disability is best understood as an emergent property of organism-environment interactions, not an individual deficit.
  • The ecological model provides a more accurate characterization of disability's nature and lived experience.
  • This perspective has broad implications for disability research and policy.