General overview of media monitoring and social views of disability
Since we're in the statement specifically more directly giving attention to individual experiences, the analysis of the situation in practice, and the analysis of systematic measures and policies, and the area of media reports about people with disabilities are not analyzed in detail, we will briefly in this section give an overview of social attitudes towards people with disabilities
The period chosen for the analysis of articles, there are almost no articles that are written about people with disabilities from the perspective of private and family life and relationships, and that these texts do not intersect with other areas and in this context family is shown as a victim. A practical problem that closely clarifies this issue is based on the fact that the media are largely following this issue from the point of reporting by the parent organizations dealing with children with disabilities. And practice, as and the media reports indicate that most of the family relationship towards the child is based on an approach which emphasizes the medical model and the treatment of children, not cleansed their individuality, diversity, or the rights. In order to change the overall picture of the public about children and people with disabilities we feel that initially the attitudes and relationships of the family towards the members with disabilities have to be changed, and so will the media images in these areas be significantly improved.
Also, in the area of health in this period there is no articles related to the problems that the persons with disabilities attributed in the individual experiences, or articles that specifically talks about the inaccessibility of health facilities, conditions in them for people with disabilities, the procedures that apply to health care and the relation of health workers towards people with disabilities, which means that on the one hand and the people with disabilities hide their negative experiences and make them unavailable to the public, while on the other hand the media are not doing research and texts on their own initiative in order to investigate this area.
In other areas which are the subject of our separate analysis media generally follow the human rights of persons with disabilities periodically, based on the activities of organizations working in this area, whether they are organizations of people with disabilities or parents, reports that these organizations produce and likewise. However, the best co-operation with the media has made the Association of Youth with Disabilities of Montenegro which can be seen from the number of articles that we have obtained. When it comes to the activities of the AYDM and they are monitored according to the media and so happens that, compared to the same activity, a particular statement, the life story of active members of the Association are presented in several models: of medical, heroic, from the economic model to the model based on human rights. Also sometimes happens that all the media in the same way escort some of the activities. However, sometimes there is a practice that the media has self initiative and wishes to deal with a subject and get opinions, experiences and attitudes of people with disabilities on the subject, and then they called activists of PWD's organization to make an interview with them.
The texts that we have obtained in the period selected for analysis in most of the texts was used the model based on human rights, thanks to the work of the Association of Youth with Disabilities of Montenegro, since most media articles are relating to the activities of the mentioned Association. However, the media often do not use a uniform terminology and approach and therefore is necessary a closer education for journalists, and especially editors for determining the sensationalistic titles, about the rights of persons with disabilities.