Understanding the context of supporting individual with learning disabilities. Unit | Questions | Answer | 1.1 1.2 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 | Identify legislation and policies that are designed to promote the human rights‚ inclusion‚ equal life chances and citizenship of individuals with learning disabilities. Explain how this legislation and policies influence
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Intellectual Disability Student Population Within‚ at the least‚ the United States‚ we are most familiar with identifying individuals that lack cognitive skills as having “mental retardation‚” but the legal term that is now being used is “intellectual disability.” Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is a law that protects the education of certain disabled children from age 3 up to the age of 21. Under IDEA‚ intellectual disabilities is one of the thirteen categories in which students
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teeth. The list is endless really. This assignment made me realize just how difficult some of these simple tasks are for many people in our society. The first task of this assignment was to visit the library and sign out some books related to disability. For most people this doesn ’t present any problems. But for a wheelchair bound person or one with limited mobility‚ there are huge obstacles to overcome. Personally I had little trouble maneuvering from place to place. In a matter of minutes
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construction of disability The purpose of this essay is to discuss the social construction of disability in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. I will do this by taking a historical perspective on eugenics and by looking at how disability has been viewed and treated in the past and present. This historical perspective will draw links between eugenics‚ common day stereotypes associated with persons with disabilities and how professionals use their skills to try and cure disability (medical model)
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inequality or disadvantage encountered by disability in modern British Society. Approximately 8.5 million people in the United Kingdom are registered disabled (Office of National Statistics 2002 cited in Giddens 2006:287). Definitions of disability is important to the way in which its nature is investigated and also to its extent in society. This essay will illustrate the broad definitions of disability and the dissimilarity between disability and impairment. It will also discuss how
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Community Care legislation (The Disability Discrimination Act‚ People First‚ The Direct Payments Act) • The Disability Discrimination Act; this bans disability discrimination by employers against disabled job-seekers‚ discrimination from fellow employees and also by service providers against disabled service users. This is the main disability discrimination law‚ it imposes a duty on employers and service providers to make adjustments so that they can have access employment‚ access to and use of goods
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role with involvement with helping the child on a day-to-day basis. The impact on the family comes in different ways‚ the parents are not the only ones who are impacted‚ and it ranges from the siblings of the child with disabilities to the long distance cousins. A child with a disability can often place a set of extra demands or challenges on the family. Each family member will play some type of role in the child’s life. Family is the support and care system for the child throughout their life but it
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Age and Disability Worksheet Lindsey Markus Eth/125 November 16‚ 2014 Kathryn Grant Age and Disability Worksheet Associate Program Material Aging and Disability Worksheet Part I Identify 2 or 3 issues faced by the aging population. 1 The aging population experiences unfair treatment in the employment industry. 2 The aging population are victims of stereotyping and prejudices based solely on age. Ageism is a coined term that is used when referring to discrimination and prejudice against
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‘We have Rights too’ Developing a Disability and Human Rights Approach to Health and Social Care: A Toolkit Centre on Human Rights for Disabled People 2007 For further information on this toolkit‚ please contact: Dr Bronagh Byrne Research and Policy Officer bronaghbyrne@disabilityaction.org Disability Action Portside Business Park 189 Airport Road West Belfast Northern Ireland BT3 9ED Telephone: 028 9029 7880 Textphone: 028 9029 7878 Fax: 028 9029 7881 Email: humanrights@disabilityaction
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In the essay “Disability”‚ writer‚ public speaker‚ and self-acclaimed “radical feminist‚ pacifist‚ and cripple” Nancy Mairs examines how the general public responds to individuals with disabilities as well as how the media portrays these aforementioned individuals (Mairs 12). She begins her essay by describing herself as a crippled woman with multiple sclerosis‚ speaking about her condition‚ and stating that she has never noticed a cripple woman like herself in the media. When the media does portray
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