The importance of the positive attitudes towards disability and specific requirements
A positive attitude towards the children could not be more important, children growing up with a disability have a number of benefits growing up around a positive attitude in a setting and at home. They do well in setting where there is a “can do” attitude is taken towards meeting children’s needs and also what they can achieve. It is very important as it makes the child have a positive attitude towards them self and also to wont to achieve high and good things. This will help them to develop a good self-esteem about them self’s, helping them to become a positive and independent person.
By having positivity in their lives it will help the child develop resilience to count balance some of the negative they will encounter in their life about their disability. They will experience some due to stereotyping so the more they can build up the better they will deal with it.
The Social and medical models of disability and the importance of each on practice.
If we label a child/young person by their Disability it can stop us from seeing the child/young person as a whole person like Culture, or Their Gender or their social background. A medical Model is a traditional view of a disability and its thought that thought medical intervention it can be cured, but in most cases there is no cure. Disabled people are expected to change to fit into society.
The social model of Disability looks at ways to help people and address issues to help children and young people to achieve their full potential. It is very important to look at the environment and help adapt it to suit the child’s needs so can feel included. The social model has been put together by listening to disabled people to what barriers they would like removing from being in there way and what they want to get from the environment. By doing this