CT263 Understand the context of supporting individuals with Learning Disabilities 1.1 People with learning disabilities are more vulnerable than other people; they are affected by certain laws. There isn’t one law or Act which covers their situation‚ but they may be affected by laws concerning: * Education * Voting rights * Ownership of property * Guardianship * Control of finances * Consent to sex In the United Kingdom‚ specific legislation that affects people with learning
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Disabled women in society are doubly marginalized; they are neither understood or accepted by mainstream heterosexual society or by feminist theorists. Indeed‚ according to Susan Wendell‚ their embodied social reality has been ignored by philosophers and feminist theorists. The main focus of Susan Wendell’s article on “Towards a Feminist Theory of Disability”is to use the power of her own experience of going from able to disabled to argue that the voice of the disabled is missing from the standard
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Americans with Disabilities Act University of Maryland‚ University College Human Resource Management HRHM 300 July 19‚ 2013 Americans with Disabilities Act Martina Navratilova (2013) said: “Disability is a matter of perception. If you can just do one thing well‚ you’re needed by someone.” With an estimated three hundred billion people in the United States‚ it would be impossible to find two people exactly alike. Differences are what set people apart from one another. This allows employers
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Did you know that “about 1 in 5 people around the world today have a diagnosed disability?” (Wpadmin 1) Some people fail to notice‚ recognize‚ or even care about this statistic because it does not pertain to them. This type of attitude is what is called ableism. Ableism is the “practice of a society that puts less of a value on human life when someone has a disability” (Wpadmin 1). In many situations‚ people do not realize that their words or actions can be offending to other people. Which is a big
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Defining Disability and Societies Stereotypes Society is always searching for a way to define or generalize what constitutes being disabled. Some would say disability is nothing out of the normal and that one’s who are disabled are still on a level playing field with abled persons. In contrast though‚ some argue that being disabled is something that totally hinders your life and will never allow you to fit in with the “social norm”. The focus of this paper is not to define disability‚ but to use
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Media Alters the Way We See the Poor and Disabled Media could be an individual’s source of gathering information about the current real world; however‚ the media can choose to show only one side of the story‚ whether it is a positive or negative outlook. In today’s society‚ media has a malicious effect on the people who doesn’t have a sufficient amount of money and the people who are physically or mentally handicapped. William J. Peace and Gloria Watkins‚ also known as Bell Hooks‚ closely observed
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Name: Anita Manoh Anak Awal Matric no.: 173967 Group: 29 TOPIC: Subject-verb Agreement Find and correct six errors in subject-verb agreement in the following paragraph. Disability in Sports Media 1According to Auslander and Gold (1999)‚ the media is the key reason for the negative images and ideas with regard to people with disabilities. 2Disability have not been an area that the media has felt obligated
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PTLLS Understanding Inclusive Learning and Teaching in the Lifelong Learning Sector. Briefing Document In order to promote inclusive learning it is preferable to do an induction or selection process to identify the needs of all learners to avoid excluding anyone‚ either directly or indirectly. All students must be treated equally and fairly. Induction should include attitudes and behaviour of all attendees and notice must be given to all actions and behaviours which must be considered
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‘Explain how to implement inclusive practice’ There are many ways as to how inclusive practice can be implemented into the environment in which the child is in. My first example is that the adult should be able to adopt a non-judgemental attitude and they could do this by not judging a family or the child based on their race and/or religion. This is important‚ as it allows the child to know they’re part of the community and that they’re part of the community and that they’re like every other child
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DIVERSE IDENTITIES ADV Shai Mesika Period 1 Class Notes UNIT II: JEWS WITH DISABILITIES October 4‚ 2012 What is a disability? - Anything that limits your day to day activities - Something that causes you to be physically and emotionally separated from a community - Something that interferes with the way people see you or the way you see people - Something that you can consider a disability‚ the words that people use for themselves are correct http://www.accessiblesociety.org/topics/demographics-identity/dkaplanpaper
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