disabled in his essay Slippery Slopes: Media Disability and Adaptive Sports‚ said that the media’s narrow depictions of disability are very distorted. He further went and said “the negative portrayal of disabled people is not only oppressive but also affirms that the nondisabled people set the terms of the debate about the meaning of disability” (676). Because of the media‚ there has been a stereotype of the disabled. The assumptions set for them is that the physical and mental deficits that they may have
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3.3 – Explain how disability may affect development Children with a disability may be subjected to prejudice or discrimination at school. They may be bullied or ridiculed by other students which will affect their self-confidence and in turn affect their learning capabilities and development. Disabilities are categorised in different forms i.e. learning or physical. Learning disabilities which affect development could be. Autism; autism is a developmental disability which affects how a person
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1. Describe in detail what you know about the causes of disabilities prior to reading the homework assignment. (10 pts) There are many reasons why a person could have a disability. Some babies are born with different types of disabilities. They could be Down syndrome‚ Turners syndrome‚ Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder‚ and Fragile X syndrome or many more intellectual disabilities (ID) that a child could be born with. I believe that the I read the top three major causes of ID are Down syndrome‚ Fragile
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social causes (Swenson). Social causes include poverty and disability in developing countries. The world’s poor are more likely to develop a disability within their lifetime however they are not able to be provided medical care and proper medical translation as opposed to the more financially privileged. Understanding organizations such as the Red Cross‚ Wheels for the World and World Institute on Disability helps to acknowledge disability and poverty in the different ways organizations approach the
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The Media’s Representation of Disabilities The essays that Nancy Mairs and Rosie Anaya wrote discuss the media’s lack of proper representations for those with disabilities. Mairs speaks about how people with disabilities have the same sense of normality as those who do not. Anaya talks about how the media representation of physical disabilities eventually has improved but mental illnesses are portrayed on a much worse level creating fear. Mairs wrote her essay in 1987. She discusses how the
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Multi-agency Working Explain the importance of multi –agency working and integrated working. (outcome 1.1) Multi-agency working brings together practitioners and working professionals to provide a way of working together to support children and young people through their development. This is very important in ensuring that each and every child is supported in their development to all achieve the same outcomes. Agency professionals such as GP’s‚ SENCO’s‚ speech and language specialists and
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Professional Roles and Values Performance Assessment Written by: XXXXXXXX Student ID# XXXXXXXXX Regulatory agencies‚ such as a state board of nursing‚ are government agencies that regulate nursing practice. They act to ensure nurses are competent in their practice and that standards of practice are met. These agencies examine nursing education programs‚ and are the ones who approve and accredit them. The agencies are responsible for granting licensure for nursing professionals and oversee
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In our society‚ presently‚ persons’ with disabilities as a whole are often stigmatized as broken or useless (Michalko‚ 2002). This is no different for women with disabilities‚ as strong cultural assumptions for this population have been formed. These assumptions are formed due to attitudes and beliefs‚ especially focusing on body image‚ religion and language (Charlton‚ 1998). In general‚ women in our society are already oppressed‚ for example women make less money in the workforce then do men (Katz
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Professor Caine Disabilities in Jails To have a disability means that you have a physical or mental illness that limits your activities movement‚ senses‚ or activities. Three percent of state prison population meets federal statutory definition of developmental disabilities. Inmates with developmental disabilities have long prior histories of criminal convictions involving more serious offenses than other inmates to have served a prior prison or jail term. Prisoners with disabilities are flying under
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Physical Therapists help injured or ill people to improve their movement to manage their pain; therefore therapies show an important part of the rehabilitation‚ treatment‚ and prevention of the patients with chronic conditions‚ illnesses‚ or injuries. When typically being a Physical Therapist to work in private offices‚ clinics‚ hospitals‚ and nursing homes. Therapists spend much of their time on their feet because they are actively working with each of the patients. A Physical Therapist has to at
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