This led to the emergence of the social model of disability (Goss et al, 2000) which introduces an alternative view where instead of blaming the individual, it focuses on the idea that it is society that disables people (Barnes and Mercer, 2005) by perceiving them as inferior. An influential issue for advocates of the social model of disability is the importance of equal value conveyed in policies between disabled and non-disabled people (Barnes, 2007). Unlike the medical model, the social model attempts to break the causal link between impairment and disability. For this reason it has been the subject of numerous criticisms (Barnes,