this. This should be holistic and focused on the individual’s needs‚ lives‚ history and preferences. By focusing on all aspects of an individual including aspiration will ensure their wellbeing and self¬-esteem is maintained. Person centred care aims to promote the independence and autonomy of an individual rather than focussing on their disability. Instead of treating the person as a collection of symptoms and behaviours to be controlled‚ person centred care means considering the whole person
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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
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Social Sciences Part- time Year 1. Assignment 2. Consider the Social Model of Disability. How useful is this model in helping us understand the nature of Disability discrimination? Inspired by the writings of various disabled activists and scholars the 1980’s and the 1990’s‚disability studies has taken on an emancipatory turn because of the paradigm shift by sociologists and activists from explaining disability in terms of individual pathology or biomedical to the ways in which environmental
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Equal in Mind "Society’s accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment." Society makes generalizations and stereotypes about the disabled and the disease stricken. Society as a whole has the belief that they are less of a person because of something they cannot change about themselves. Society places the disabled in a category by themselves‚ as an outcast from modern civilization. We think that if we
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3.2 DISABILITY AND UNEMPLOYMENT Disability is the restriction or lack of capacity to perform an activity in a manner or within a range which is considered normal (WHO‚ 1980). Persons with disabilities are restricted in performing daily activities due to a complex set of interrelating factors. Some of these factors are pertaining to the individual‚ while others are related to the person’s environmental‚ social or political arrangements (Chandrashekar‚ Naveen Kumar‚ Prashanth & Kasthuri‚ 2010). Mental
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References http://www.helium.com/items/782464-learning-disabled-label-influences-budget-academic-achievement-and-socialization http://www.Nichcy.org/Disabilities http://nichcy.org/disability/specific/autism#what ----------------------- Children can be cruel to those kids who operate outside the norm‚ and labeling may call attention those kids. But as children become more world-wise at earlier ages‚ this may pass‚ and tolerance come to be the norm. The larger problem tends to be with
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Task 8: Explain how disability may affect development Disability can take many forms and is a serious risk factor when it comes to child development. A disabled child be it physical or learning is likely to have less opportunities in life than a child who is not disabled‚ restricting the choices of job‚ and life experiences. A child may be faced with prejudice and discrimination‚ maybe bullied and teased by peers and this will affect confidence. Children with learning and physical disorders may
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of three parts: ID: This is the part of the personality that is instinctive and follows the needs of the body i.e a baby crying for feeding because they need to be fed‚ no matter how tiring or annoying the caregiver may be. Ego: This is the ‘planning’ part of a personality‚ the part that works out what is needed and how to get it. A child waiting to be given a biscuit rather than just taking one for example‚ has worked out that his needs are going to be met either way but if he waits‚ he will probably
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or physical disability may be exposed to prejudice or discrimination at school for the reason that they could be treated differently than the rest of the children. They may be bullied or teased by other students which will affect their self-confidence and in turn affect their learning ability and development. Disabilities are categorised in different forms i.e. learning or physical. Learning disabilities which affect development could be. Autism; autism is a disability which affects how a person relates
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Physical Disability Understand the importance of differentiating between the individual and the disability 1.1 Explain the importance of recognising the centrality of the individual rather than the disability It is important you recognise the individuality of the person to help boost their confidence and self-esteem and make sure you aren’t labelling them. If you were to label them you would forget their individuality and start thinking they cant do something because of their disability.
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