In the disability community, Seelman (2000) described a new paradigm
that shifts the location of the problem from within the individual to the
environmental response to the disability. This paradigm that evolved from
the efforts of scholars, activists with disabilities, and their nondisabled
allies departs from the former models in terms of its definition of disability problems, the scope of potential solutions, and the values underlying
both the definition of the problems and solutions (Gill, 1999). The new
paradigm frames disability from the perspective of a social, cultural