When we talk about hiring people with disabilities‚ we are also discussing the broader issues of labor shortages‚ diverse hiring practices‚ and the social reactions to an impairment. Hiring disabled workers can offer a number of important financial‚ legal‚ public relations and productivity advantages for a business while helping to avoid potentially harmful events such as lawsuits. Statistics and findings from studies conducted from 1998 through 2010 along with observations and best practic
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CHCCS411B Work Effectively in the Community Sector 1. You are a worker in a residential facility for persons with a disability. The residents are supposed to be encouraged to do as much as possible for themselves even though this can be time consuming for the staff. You notice that one of your colleagues does everything herself‚ not giving the residents time to attempt the tasks themselves. You remind her that she is not following the ethical guidelines of the organisation but she says she
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of People With Disabilities Chris Moore Assumption: A person with mental retardation cannot be trained to perform a job as well as an employee without a disability. Fact: Over two thirds of Pizza Hut employees have mental retardation. The average turnover rate (the rate at which workers quit) of these employees is a modest twenty percent compared to a one hundred and fifty percent turnover of employees without disabilities. It is this kind of thinking that limits the ability of people with
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Topic: People with disabilities who have talents Title: Gifted People with Disabilities Thesis Statement: Who are those people with disabilities with talent and what are the talents they have? Outline: Introduction I. Gifted People with Disability A. Define Disability B. Define Talented Discussion I. Gifted People with Disability A. People with Disability 1. Jovy Sasutona 2. Chris Cerna 3. Amado Dulnuan 4. Maricel Apatan 5. Jessica Cox
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To make sure that people with learning difficulties are able to live in their flats independently and not go through any abuse‚ there are various strategies to help them such as: Protection of Vulnerable Adults scheme (POVA) The Protection of Vulnerable Adults (POVA) scheme was July 2004 was introduced to protect vulnerable adults such as people with learning disability who are aged 18 years and over in care settings. Employers or managers are required to check the POVA list when employing workers
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CHCCS411C - Work effectively in the community sector: Assignment 2 What you have to do Choose a Community Services organisation and research the current issues influencing service delivery by answering the questions below based on your research. The organisation should belong to one of the following sectors: Home and community care Disability services‚ or Aged care Tip: Refer to the Assessment Tips document on the OLS under Assessment Information (you will locate this next
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certain groups of people‚ based on their cultural and social image is called a stereotype. A stereotype is usually met with the suggestion that it is a by-product of ignorance and unfamiliarity. Stereotypes of people with Mental and Physical disabilities have been prevalent in media and society for many decades. They have been perceived as non fully functioning human beings‚that they can’t be successful‚and that they are “sick”. With these stereotypes the title of having a disability becomes corrupted
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someone’s skin. People judge you on everything. Where you live‚ how you talk‚ dress‚ people you hang with and definitely how you look. My mother use to always tell me‚ “don’t judge a book by its cover‚” I know it is cliché but it does help when you encounter something or someone that might not be what is considered quote‚ unquote‚ the normal. Unfortunately‚ there are people that live in this world that is different. They are people with disabilities. What is a disability? I used to think
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early 1900s before this time‚ people with mental illness were housed in asylums and classed as inmates. In the 1600s people believed supernatural or magical powers and medicine men could heal people with mental illness. In the 1700s witchcraft was blamed for mental illness. People were ‘set free’ or ‘cured’ by being burnt to death. The early 1900s doctors realised that the brain caused mental illness. Various therapies and large asylums were built to house and treat people with mental illness. Mid 1900s
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CHCCS411A Work effectively in the community sector Assignment 2: Research a sector of the Community Services Industry You need to choose a sector of the Community Services Industry and research the current issues influencing service delivery in that sector and answer the questions below based on your research. A sector could include: * Aged care * Home and community care * Disability services * Alcohol and other drugs * Family and domestic violence * Mental
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