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Conversations about Disability Introduction In this essay I would like to discuss the definition of disability with focus on medical, economic and socio –political models, evolution, and history of disability care, disability rights movements, marginalisation, oppression and barriers and strategies to dismantle barriers .I will illustrate these with the clear understanding of the concepts illustrated by Simi Linton, Colin Barnes and Lennard Davis. If you look at the evolution of disability –the people with disabilities were excluded totally from their communities they were beyond the boundaries of what was acceptable, decent and normal in their communities .Then the charities started taking care of people with disabilities and later the Government started to care for people with disabilities by building institutions and eventually the institutions were pulled down .At one point the government thought the Sheltered workshops were an alternative to include people with disabilities .In 2013 the revolutionary model of NDIS is introduced for private market to offer consumer choice and control to people with disabilities . Firstly, let’s look at the history of the disability .We live in a world of norms .Everyone tries to be normal. The focus on construction of disability as on the construction of normalcy .The problem is the way that normalcy is constructed to create the problem of the disabled person .There is an inherent desire to compare to others .Norm is less a condition of human nature than it is feature of a certain kind of society .The social problem of disabling arrived with industrialisation in 19th century .Disabling was related to nationality, race, gender, criminality, sexual orientation and colour. The co... ... middle of paper ... ...standing our past, changing our future: London: Routledge Dreidger D (1989) The Civil Rights Movement London: Hurst Barnes C (1991) Disabled People in Britain and discrimination: London Hurst and Co Tulloch.S. ed 1993 The Readers Digest Oxford Word Finder, Oxford Hunt, Paul 1998.” A critical condition “Pp.7-19 in the Disability Reader: Social Science Perspective, edited by Tom Shakespeare .London and New York: Cassell Donna McDonald (2014) what we need to know to get ready for the NDIS, Queensland Disability Conference march 2014. Union of Physically Impaired against Segregation (UPIAS).1976.Fundamental principles of Disability .London: Union of the Physically Impaired against Segregation. Lennard J Davis –Chapter 1 of Disability Studies Journal-http://glmw.info.soc.dis/files/1.pdf Marx Karl, (1970), Capital, Vol 1 Trans .Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling