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What is Deficit Model

Chapter 4
Understanding Parent Experiences and Supporting Autistic Children in the K-12 School System
A model of evaluation, intervention, and instruction that focuses on the weaknesses of individual children, seeking to correct their weaknesses with a minimal focus on teaching children how to recognize and utilize their individual strengths.
Published in Chapter:
What About Me?: Recognizing and Building on Each Child's Strengths
Frank Goode (West Texas A&M University, USA)
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 16
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7732-5.ch004
Abstract
Children with differences do not need to be fixed or cured or pitied. Children are valuable simply for the person they are and will be. Schools and school districts have sought to remediate the weaknesses of children with disabilities without focusing on or utilizing the strengths and interests of children with disabilities as the basis for individual education programs (IEP). Beginning with a pre-referral process that focuses on parent or teacher concerns for children, driving an evaluation that focuses on a child's weaknesses, leading to an IEP built on remediating weaknesses that often ignore an individual's strengths and interests, the process and end product are focused on deficits in children. This chapter will present an alternative to this model, an alternative focused on identifying and utilizing a child's strengths and interests in the development of IEPs.
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Chapter 12
Implications of Multilingual Students' Stories for Promoting Linguistic Justice in Higher Education: Insights From Oral History Interviews
The assumption that being a nonnative speaker of English implies a lack of skills that the given speaker needs to make up for. This model has been challenged as the benefits of multilingualism have increasingly been recognized.
Published in Chapter: Implications of Multilingual Students' Stories for Promoting Linguistic Justice in Higher Education: Insights From Oral History Interviews; From: Interrogating Race and Racism in Postsecondary Language Classrooms
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Chapter 6
Ensuring Technology Integration in the Classroom Leads to Increased Accessibility: Using UDL as a Lens
Describes a medical model approach which sees the individual with disabilities as inherently having a deficit, missing competencies, or requiring ‘fixing’. The deficit model usually translates into targeted and individualized practices that seek to support the individual as they attempt to fit into a mainstream environment which creates specific barriers for them.
Published in Chapter: Ensuring Technology Integration in the Classroom Leads to Increased Accessibility: Using UDL as a Lens; From: Assistive Technologies for Differently Abled Students
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Chapter 9
Embedding Authentic and Effective Awareness About Mental Health in Pre-Service Teacher Training
An approach to mental health which construes individuals with mental health issues as inherently missing essential characteristics, not fitting into mainstream expectations, and requiring ‘fixing’. Deficit model approaches to mental health are often described as bio-medical, and focus mostly on clinical treatment and medication.
Published in Chapter: Embedding Authentic and Effective Awareness About Mental Health in Pre-Service Teacher Training; From: Global Perspectives on Teacher Performance Improvement
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