Supporting Individuals with Specific Needs

SUPPORTING INDIVIDUALS WITH
SPECIFIC NEEDS

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
LO1..................................................................................................................................................3
P1 Describe the social and medical model of disability in relation to individuals with disability
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P2 Reviews the factor that can bring to specific and complex needs..........................................7
M1 Historical overview of care provision towards individuals’ specific needs..........................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Specific Needs refers as a disability of health in term of physical impairment i.e.
communication issue, auditory impairment, blindness etc. Such kind disability requires high
support in carrying out routine activities (Thompson, Tickle and Dillon, 2019). The person with
disabilities involves those people who have long-term, mental, physical, sensory impairments
which in interaction with numerous barriers may delay their whole life activities. In this report
will discuss about social and medical model of disability in relation to individuals with disability
that will be used by a health and social care organization i.e. NHS. Furthermore, it will highlight
different factors that can lead to specific and complex needs of individuals.
LO1
P1 Describe the social and medical model of disability in relation to individuals with disability
Perspective towards disability directly affects the way people think and make own
mindset towards disabled people. Such people also impact on outcomes for disabled people in
such way they treat and become able to participate in society. There are two specific models in
the form of disability which demonstrates that how disability is considered such as medical
model and social model.
Issue with models
Models are quite useful tool to support individuals think about and deeply discuss a topic.
But the major issue with models is that they can be more simplistic and makes things appear
clearer as compared they are. In reality, when most of the health and social care organization
works between social and medical model and try to integrate aspects of both models in such
manner that they can interact with disabled people then most of time they often get difficulty
because it is not mandatory that always only a situation takes place in this case.
Social model of disability
It is one of the most preferred models whenever thinking about disability as compared
others. This social model was sanctioned by the Government Equalities Office who suggested