Social Model of Disability Simulator

An academic field exploring the social, cultural, and political dimensions of disability. Social Model of Disability Simulator turns that idea into something you can manipulate directly and watch respond.

An academic field exploring the social, cultural, and political dimensions of disability. It focuses on Impairment vs. Disability, Social Construct, Critical Disability, Systems Change, Power Dynamics from the “Disability Studies” section.

The “Individual Variation”, “Environmental Barrier” sliders change the key inputs. Every change updates the visualization in real time, so you can see exactly how each variable affects the outcome.

The Bookshelves area in the LibreTexts Library serves as a centralized repository for curated academic texts across a wide array of social science and professional disciplines. Managed by the LibreTexts Development team… This demo is the interactive piece for the “Disability Studies” section. Open the full Overview of Social Science and Professional Disciplines course wiki at https://www.getlykke.com/explore/public/overview-of-social-science-and-professional-76e90f78-265a-4c20-a32c-7a65e795fc57 for notes, flashcards, quizzes and the other demos.

You'll build intuition for Impairment vs. Disability, Social Construct, Critical Disability, Systems Change, Power Dynamics — and, crucially, see how they behave when you change the inputs, which is hard to get from a textbook or lecture on Overview of Social Science and Professional Disciplines alone.