This, along with the medical model, are the models most used by non-disabled people to define and explain disability.
Until recently the arts have placed too much emphasis on educating non-disabled people rather than providing a medium for communication with each other.
Our primary interest in the arts is no different from that of non-Disabled people: put simply, we want to create art.
Much of the art we produce is qualitatively different from that of non-Disabled people.
This is true for disabled people as well as non-Disabled people.
Do non-Disabled people have a role in supporting and promoting Disability arts?
Are we only allowed to drive what non-disabled people tell us we can drive?
People with disabilities are more likely to be unemployed than non-disabled people.
Because of their disability they are likely to be confined at home longer than non-disabled people, resulting in higher heating bills.
Disabled people of working age experience unemployment rates at least three times higher than non-disabled people.