Medical model of disability

This is in an aim to expand or improve functioning, and to allow disabled people to lead a more "normal" life.

[4] While personal narrative is present in interpersonal interactions, and particularly dominant in Western Culture, personal narrative during interactions with medical personnel is reduced to relaying information about specific symptoms of the disability to medical professionals.

[1] The medical professionals then interpret the information provided about the disability by the patient to determine a diagnosis, which likely will be linked to biological causes.

Disability is the interaction between individuals with a health condition (such as cerebral palsy, Down syndrome and depression) and personal and environmental factors (such as negative attitudes, inaccessible transportation and public buildings, and limited social supports).

[8] The medical model focuses on individual intervention and treatment as the proper approach to disability.

Terminology used can perpetuate negative labels such as deviant, pathological, and defective, thus, best understood in medical terms.

Pathology tends to classify physiological or mental states to "Normal", "More", and "Less". This creates an illusion of one "Normal" size fits all. But there will be people who are outliers in this schema, and "their normal" isn't everyone's normal. Trying to bending back to the accepted normal may actually harm them, for example DSPD (Delayed sleep phase disorder).
Pathology tends to classify physiological or mental states to "Normal", "More", and "Less". This creates an illusion of one "Normal" size fits all. But there will be people who are outliers in this schema, and "their normal" isn't everyone's normal. Trying to bending back to the accepted normal may actually harm them, for example DSPD ( Delayed sleep phase disorder ).