· The interviewee’s experience with prejudice and what has he or she done to manage it…
The Disability Resource Center at Westminster College provides a wonderful wealth of resources and a great place for students with a possibility of disabilities or established disabilities. The center was visited on October 8, 2015, and was a real eye opener to learn about the many different, tremendous resource tools and eager people available to assist the students. The Director of Disability Resources, Faith Craig, works closely with Sally Huey, Director-Learning Center, to accommodate students who need extra guidance and assistance academically, socially and personally. They work with students experiencing all sorts of disabilities, such as: specific…
In the piece by co-authors Paula Fernandes, Nelson DeBarros, and Li Li, as well as the piece written by Georgina Kleege, we can see how these authors use rhetorical devices in order to draw in and persuade their audience on the topic of disability. Through a deep and thorough analysis of the texts, we will be able to understand how their focus on certain rhetorical elements and techniques creates flow in their writing, how the ideas motivating their writing are expressed, as well as how these elements combined create an effective narrative on the topic they are trying to discuss. The topics, though surrounding the topic of disability, use very different approaches and have very different targets with their works, with one being especially…
The first friend to be interviewed was David, who is a comedian and can portray many different characters. He is a funny and light-hearted man who met a woman in acting class, and fell in love. While watching his interview I was reminded of when I took a disability in the cinema class while attending Loras. In the early years of cinema many protagonists were portrayed as a person with a disability. This then stemmed to society where people with disabilities were viewed negatively. Although David can portray a scary character when he is performing on stage, he is in fact the complete opposite.…
One passion we as educators all share is the love for our students. Those of us who chose the path of working with special education students especially know that genuine place we have in our hearts for teaching students disabilities with learning disabilities. Over the last few decades, more awareness about these disabilities has florist throughout our nation. Many advocates of their time have fought to educate these students in order to help them overcome their struggle. Over time we see the long protect the rights of the students and provide them with the restrictive environment settings in order to provide an equal but adequate education. Despite the fact services are an essential part of protecting a student with special needs rights; it cannot be at the cost of their education either. If the student is able to complete the work at the same annual yearly progress as the general education population, proper services whether it be assistive technology or a personal aide, must be provided to the student. The services not only help students’ with special needs successfully graduate school but it provides them a promising future. Graduating with the tools and knowledge needed to survive on their own, students are now becoming functioning members of our society. As the candidate for my interview, I chose Dr.Gerard Crisinino, special education director of Jersey City Pubic School. He has instilled within him that compassion for working with these children and dedicated the last 30 years of his life to providing services for those students in need. Therefore, he was the perfect advocate to answer the following interview questions.…
Why does society have such harass views when a person does fit their ideal picture of how we as a whole should look and act? Rachel Simons does the remarkable by turning her life upside down to be able to experience for a year on what her younger sister Beth life is like. Beth is a colorful independent woman who was born with an intellectual disability and spends her time riding buses every day. By taking this novel and analyzing it with concepts about the sociological views of disability gives a better understanding of how the concepts connect to real life. Thus we will look at the parental first encounter when finding out your child is disabled to the neurodiversity depiction of being disabled and lastly how disabilities and culture coexist.…
There are various different models of disability but the ones I am going to be focusing on are medical and social. The difference between these two models of disability is that the medical one is where the individual is disabled for example they may have to use a wheel chair. The social model is the view of people in the society on people’s disabilities and how they approach this.…
Nancy Mairs is a writer afflicted with multiple sclerosis. In her essay, "Disability", she explains how the media fails to accurately portray individuals living with a debilitating disease. This causes people with a handicap to feel inadequate, isolated, and lonely. Consequently, the media's lack of depiction hinders the able-bodied person's ability to understand, interact, and accept disability as normal. Mairs wants disability to be portrayed in everyday life that way others can be aware of those who have handicaps and realize that they are just like everyone else. Mairs succeeds to get her point across by drawing in the reader with her strong diction as well as using personal experiences and humor in support of her statements.…
The third Deaf event that I attended was an interpreted church service at New Venture Christian Church on April 17th and I attended this event for over an hour and a half. I have attended New Venture Christian Church since I was eight years old and within the last four or five years we have gained a few Deaf members of our congregation as well as an interpreter. When I found out about this assignment I immediately knew that I wanted to closely observe the signed church service. When I arrived at New Venture Christian Church I was excited to have the chance to practice signing with members of my church family. Although I have had the chance to sign with these members of New Venture Christian Church before, I felt that over the course of this class I have learned a tremendous amount and can understand those I am signing with much more than I could last semester.…
When someone looks at me, they see one thing; I see another. In my mind I want to help people, but in a way that is behind the scenes and not the whole world knows about. They see a shy little girl, but I see a girl who wants to change the world. Although, it may be a little complicated for me change the world when I do not exactly have the best motivation. I have insecurities that may or may not always show on the outside, and anxiety that overtakes my mind when exciting or scaring events take place.…
I was very wrong, interviewing Ms. Rose taught me many new things and helped me understand that every ethnic group deals with hardships, maybe not the exact same hardship but similar ones. Hearing some of the hard time Ms. Rose encountered with her live made me appreciate that I am living in a time where there is not much discrimination within communities. Although there are still hardships I know I cannot compare to the ones that Ms. Rose faced or to what her own family faced, where many rights were not available for to them and not able to share ideas or be involved with other ethnic groups. Ms. Rose shared that she has some chronic conditions that have been hard for her. In which she always has to be on the lookout for her health because serious problems could arise if she does not. This really opened up my eyes on how I need to take care of myself and try to be healthy because it can affect me in my older years. Although, Ms. Rose said she does not let her condition stop her from taking care of herself and being active. Getting to know Ms. Rose's condition made me realize that many elderly people endure these conditions or face other more challenging illnesses that affect their well-being on a day-to-day basis. Learning from Ms. Rose experience has helped me expand my thoughts on how I can help the elderly around me and share the knowledge that I have acquired from my interview and the knowledge gained from my class lectures. One of the difficulties that I encountered with my interview was that I had to communicate with Ms. Rose over the phone. I really would have liked to have met Ms. Rose in person because it would have been nice to see her expressions in the way she shared details of her life and accomplishments. Another thing that I had difficulty in was going out of my comfort…
On Friday, July 2 2010, I traveled to the Menlo Mall in Edison, NJ to observe and participate in a Deaf culture event meeting at the Starbucks. This event takes place on the first Friday of every month, and I was lucky enough to be able to hear about and attend to this one right before the paper was actually due. All the other events I attempted to plan on going to interfered with my work and class schedule, so I was fortunate to have gotten an e-mail from a fellow class mate, Allison White.…
I started the interview off with asking several questions about Ms. Stokowski’s educational background and experience in special education. Anne received her Bachelor’s Degree from University of Massachusetts in Psychology and Master’s Degree from George Mason University in Educational Leadership. She taught a total of ten years as a special education teacher in various elementary grade levels. Also, she taught ESOL students for one year. Anne primarily taught reading and mathematics in those grades. Following her elementary…
It wasn’t before I met my friend Hwa I first learned about occupational therapy. Couple of years ago, I ran into my long-ago friend’s dad at a grocery store when I was back in Korea during a summer vacation. As much as I was glad to say hello, he smiled but I saw his eyes were not. It happened that Hwa’s mom and her two other sisters were involved in a car accident five years ago. Although they were all carried to Intensive Care Unit, Hwa was the only survivor from the accident. The next day, I met her in the same apartment I hung out with her before I moved to another town. “We have a guest here, Hwa,” her dad said. Hwa stared at me in a pure curiosity. Hwa could hardly talk and recognize me as many areas of her brain were affected by the…
The challenge I have faced and am facing is relatively new to me, I have been diagnosed with dyslexia. With my type of dyslexia, I will replace words with other words that I feel will make sense in that spot, whether it is reading or writing them. So lately in my classes I have been doubting myself when I am forced to read, write, or anything like that alone or in a group. So when we are doing group readings I will volunteer to read all of the stories, and I have asked the kids in my groups to correct me if I am reading the wrong words or saying words that are not even on the page. And, very, very little, my friends and I can see and hear reading and writing skills, improving from when I started reading at the beginning of my 8th grade year.…