UNIT 34: UNDERSTAND PHYSICAL DISABILITY – LEARNING OUTCOME 2 2.1 Define the term “physical disability” Physical disability pertains to total or partial loss of a person’s bodily functions (e.g. walking‚ gross motor skills‚ bladder control etc) and total or partial loss of a part of the body (e.g. a person with an amputation). Simply stated‚ a physical disability is any type of physical condition that significantly impacts one or more major life activities. That is a pretty broad definition‚ but the
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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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way media shapes the way the public views people with disabilities. Our culture is media driven in the form of movies‚ TV‚ social media‚ advertising and so on. It is important to understand that the images and notions of disability are not always accurate and can be prejudicial or inflammatory. First‚ I will talk about how stereotypes are created and perpetuated largely by people who make assumptions about what it is like to have a disability (Barnes‚ 1992). Telethons are notorious for creating stereotypes
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performed by athletes despite their disabilities. Unfortunately‚ the athletes and the disabled population comes off worse due to negative stereotypes created by segregation‚ lack of funding due to the Paralympics and being separated by social borders. These issues have been brought to the spot light by Keith Storey. Segregation in sport is used to create a fair playing field by separating athletes based on age‚ gender and disability. However‚ athletes with disability come of worse from segregation as
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Physical and Sensory Disability Strategy and Action Plan 2012 – 2015 February 2012 List of Contents Foreword Executive Summary 1.0 2.0 3.0 4.0 5.0 6.0 7.0 Page No Vision and Values ...................................................................................8 Prevalence and Need ............................................................................ 18 Promoting Positive Health‚ Wellbeing and Early Intervention .......... 37 Providing Better Services to Support Independent
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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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Learning disabilities come in a wide spread variety. There are many characteristics that can help determine what specifically the child’s learning disability pertains to. Cognitively speaking‚ children can have attention‚ perception‚ memory‚ or information processing learning disabilities (Friend‚ 2011). Children that have are diagnosed with an attention learning disability tends to have trouble trying to focus on the task at hand because of the other surrounding noises and distractions may be too
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with disability is of the highest priority for the National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities (Mulligan ‚ Sept 2011). Who frequently filter the results of research and examination in order for general and special educators to connect the “evidence based practices” regarding educating students with disabilities (Mulligan ‚ Sept 2011). Modifications and Accommodations are a vital part of planning and preparing educational plan for students. Many students with a disability may
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Summary: Students with learning disabilities have always been present in our school settings. Unfortunately for many‚ many years it was an "invisible condition" that was not supported by educators and parents. No doubt little was known about why a child had a reading disability‚ now known as being dyslexic; or a writing disability now labeled dysgraphic. Many children even suffered from dyscalculia‚ a math disability. But think about the many years of frustration and embarrassment so many students
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capacity building on different levels in the government as well as the private sector.it is estimated that a large number of women in Pakistan are having various forms of disability. “In our society women are already considered weak and disability adds to their woes‚women having disability in our country is considered as “double disability”.steps il be taken for anti discrimination of disabled ppl..
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