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    Disability” Nancy Mairs’s essay “Disability from Carnival Acts describes how the speaker‚ Nancy Mairs‚ lives every day with a disability. She reveals her view on the handicap and disabled. Nancy Mairs has multiple sclerosis‚ weakening of the bones‚ and she feels as if she is being judged and is inferior to everyone else. The audience is definitely aware of how she feels. She is very blunt about her feelings and everything else. She wants to make a stand for all the disabled people. The essay

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    How to Handle Difficult People – A Tao Perspective How to deal with difficult people. “To subdue the enemy without fighting is the highest skill.” — Gichin Funakoshi‚ father of modern Karate   “The Chinese call it Chi; the Japanese‚ Ki; the Indians Prana – it is the life force‚ and it is incredibly powerful…it can’t be explained adequately except to those who have already experienced it‚ but it’s one of the very few willable miracles.” — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar‚ 19-time NBA All-Star‚ describing how

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    Learning Disability Report Hellena Berrios Grand Canyon University SPE525 Educating Learners with Diverse Needs Takita Williams August 6‚ 2006 Abstract When a child is diagnosed with a learning disability parents often have a fear that they did something wrong. To eliminate these fears parents find solace in gathering information on learning disabilities and resources. Learning Disability Report According to The Healthy Children

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    Performance Evidence: Explore Models of Disability Date of activity: 12th October 2013 Ref to other units 58‚1.1 58‚1.2 58‚ 1.3 58‚2.1 58‚3‚3.1‚2‚3 58‚3.2‚3 58.2.2 58‚2.3 Examples of some theoretical models of disability are as follows; The medical model: is presented as viewing disability as a problem of the person‚ directly

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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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    How are people presented in “At hiruhurama” Penelope Firtzgerald uses presents the characters in the play as having‚ very similar characteristics‚ especially white people and the men and women in the story. In the second page the when the doctor is first introduced he is seen as a quite‚ irresponsible‚ unreliable and extremely feminist man “you can ask a woman to live anywhere” the explicit meaning the whole quote is to say the doctor is quite sexist‚ however the doctor does use the word “ask”

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    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‚ taking into account each individual’s unique qualities‚ abilities‚ interests‚ preferences and needs

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    Relations Act 1976‚ the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 and three major statutory instruments protecting discrimination in employment on grounds of religion or belief‚ sexual orientation and age. This legislation has the same goals as the four major EU Equal Treatment Directives‚ whose provisions it mirrors and implements.[1] It requires equal treatment in access to employment as well as private and public services‚ regardless of the protected characteristics of age‚ disability‚ gender reassignment

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    image or description is inaccessible‚ and for whom it might be inaccessible (i.e.‚ what kinds of disabilities). The picture is depicting physical inaccessibility because of the steps that are blocking the path to the garbage cans and to parking. In order to throw trash away or to access the parking area‚ residents would need to go up the steps. However‚ people with lower physical disabilities‚ such as people who use wheelchairs‚ who need to throw their trash or get to their car would not be able to climb

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    People are people Autumn Heather Lundy Concorde Career College Friday‚ July 12‚ 2013 Prepared for MS Hill Multicultural competence is the ability to appreciate‚ value‚ interact with and benefit from difference cultures. Cultures are group with a common outlook. They may be racial or ethnic; male or female; of a certain sexual orientation belief or age (job readiness‚ 2013‚ page 104). You will always see in this world multicultural competence because every judges everybody. Before I was born

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