Raising a Child with a Disability: Journal Entry #2: Summary: This article mainly examines ways in which parents can deal properly with the news of being told that their child has a disability. There are a few stories in the article which emphasize the way the parents felt when they found out about their child’s disability. In most cases‚ the parents felt shattered‚ overwhelmed and completely shocked. The article explained that parents have an expectation of having that "perfect" child and
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Medical Model of Disability The medical model of disability is one that is primarily concerned with the justification of disability. It sees disability purely as a problem of the individual‚ without any discrimination between the impairment faced and the disability itself. “Any economic or social deprivation encountered by disabled people was located within the individual and their impairment.” (Swain et al.‚ 2003) To put it simply‚ a disabled person is seen as faulty and in need of fixing or curing
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Persons with disability & Sport | Globalization of World politics | | | 07/06/2011 | | History of the minority group: persons with disability “Disability is any physical or mental condition that limits a person’s movements‚ senses or activities. The term disability is conventionally used to refer to attributes that are severe enough to interfere with‚ or prevent‚ normal day-to-day activities.” There are over 600 million people in the world that have a disability in one form
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issue of disability in sport via a literature review; to establish how gender is presented as it intersects with disability; to examine the role of media in sport for disabled; to interview professional tennis players; and to draw a conclusion and give recommendations. In-depth qualitative interviews were used to encourage female disabled athletes to talk about their lives and sport; all of them were professional tennis players. The interviews helped to explore how gender and disability intersect
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Theory of Multiple Intelligences Ben Thiel COLL100 American Military University Professor Corey Tutor Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences is comprised of eight intelligences. A further analysis will be concentrated on three specific areas and the impact each has on an individual’s overall personal success. These intelligences include: linguistic intelligence which refers to verbal intelligence‚ interpersonal intelligence is being able to appreciate and identify what others require
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Theoretical Framework(s)/ Contextual Literature: Severe depression is a very common disease that many people suffer from‚ but it is just a mood disorder. The symptoms can make they way you feel‚ act‚ and even handle your everyday activities harder to handle. Dealing with the symptoms for more than fourteen days is when you can be diagnosed with depression(in text citation). Symptoms of this can range in all different types of feelings. Feeling hopeless‚ loss of interest in activities‚ and a decrease
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feel reflect some of the contrasting models of disability which we have looked at in Units 1-4 of the course materials (E214‚ The Open University‚ 2010). The first resource comes from the National Autistic Society’s website and the second comes from the national newspaper The Guardian. The first resource (Appendix A) is an information page entitled ‘What is Asperger Syndrome’ and particularly focusses on the medical/deficit model of disability‚ a model which involves identifying symptoms‚ diagnosing
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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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The disability simulation that I choose to do was to rent a wheelchair from the mall and spend an hour navigating around the mall in the wheelchair. The reason that I choose this simulation is because I thought it would be a great idea for me to experience what obstacles the people who are in wheelchairs have to endure on a daily basis in simple day-to-day activities. There are many things that people without disabilities‚ more specifically in this simulation people not in wheelchairs‚ do every single
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All children have the right to a free appropriate public education and students with special needs should receive all the necessary supports to give them an even playing field. My role as an educator is to advocate for my students and ensure that they receive a quality education. All children are unique in their own special ways. With the help and support of general education teachers‚ special educators‚ and the child’s family students with low incidence disabilities can learn and become more independent
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