How disability rights shifted attention from bodies to barriers.
The person was not the only thing needing change.
The social model argues that people are disabled by barriers in society as well as by impairment.
This shifted the question from what is wrong with this person to what is wrong with the environment.
Awareverse is deeply aligned with this shift.
When looking at the social model, ask: who had power, who was being labelled, and what would have changed if the human being had been seen first?