The debate over modeling disability continues. The culture and working practices that havegrown up around the medical model still too often predominate among both professionalsand, sometimes, disabled people themselves. it can be all too easy to believe that you areneedy and helpless if professionals and others continually treat you that way. Disabled people who have believed the image of themselves as passive and needy often find this reflected by the professionals they encounter. This creates practical problems for, or barriers
and challenges to, promoting the widespread adoption of the social model.
The main criticism of the social model is that, taken to an extreme, it suggests that disab would be eradicated people could do any job if only attitudes changed, the environment was accessible and work
was organized appropriately. It also does not acknowledge the limitations, which may result from impairment (e.g. pain) that no amount of change to the social context could remove f society were changed in the appropriate ways. For example, disabled Various attempts have been made to bridge the gap between the social and medical models Most recently the World Health Organization published its "International Classification of
Functioning, Disability and Health" (ICF). In its introduction it states:
