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The purposes of this perspective article are: (1) to explore models of disability
from the perspective of the academic discipline of disability studies (DS), (2)
to consider the paradox of improving functional capacities while valuing
disability as diversity, (3) to identify how physical therapy's use of the
International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF)
disablement model intersects with various disability models, and (4) to apply
this broader understanding of disability to physical therapist practice,
education, and research. The DS literature has been critical of rehabilitation
professionals, particularly targeting the medical model of disability. In
contrast, advocates for a social model of disability recognize disability as
diversity. It is paradoxical for physical therapy to simultaneously work to
ameliorate disability while celebrating it as diversity. The ICF biopsychosocial
disablement model offers a mechanism to practice within this paradox and suggests
that it is no longer sufficient to conceptualize disability as a purely
individual matter that requires attention in isolation from the impact of the
larger society.

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