who have disabilities face a constant battle with daily life activities. These disabilities can occur at birth like for instance‚ autism and Down syndrome‚ or they can come after a traumatic accident. These individuals are faced with a stigma and are for the most part categorized in a group labeled “special.” While being labeled as special people with disabilities might find it hard to socialize with others and not want to take part in sports‚ games‚ exercises and any other type of social activities
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Diversity‚ the existence of a plurality of abilities and cultural‚ social‚ and ethnic understandings amongst people‚ is purported to be the thing that America is built upon. The world knows America as the great melting pot of people‚ where individuals can come from any walk of life and be a part of a great nation that accepts them and allows them to succeed. Experience proves otherwise‚ however‚ that without a concerted effort in the business world‚ otherwise disadvantaged segments of the population
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Garland. Extraordinary bodies: Figuring physical disability in American culture and literature. Columbia University Press‚ 1997. Print. In this article‚ Rosemarie Thomson criticizes on the way physically disabled people are treated in the context of culture. Her main claim is that the socially contextualized view of disability has attributed misrepresentations to people with extraordinary bodies. The first sub-claim is that the identification of “disability” is based on cultural rules instead of corporeal
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of “handicap” is referred to as a “physical or mental disability making participation in certain activities of daily living more difficult”. The definition of “disability” is stated “physical or mental handicap‚ especially one that prevents a person from living a full‚ normal life or from holding a gainful job”. It is a very broad definition that leaves an open discussion for a debate on what is or isn’t considered a handicap. A true disability may be fixed or cured and is always uncontrollable. Such
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people with many different dissabilites. They can be trained to help with people who suffer from physocial dissabilites‚ Sezure disorders‚ Blind‚ deaf‚ diabedes‚ those who are unable to get around with out the use of a wheel chair and many other disabilities. After my doctor told me this I decided to research this a little further knowing that I may benefit as well from the use of a service dog. Just as I’m sure all disabled people who think about how a dog could benefit there lives I had questions
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How effective is the Equality Act 2010 at getting people with disabilities in to employment In 1995 the Disability Discrimination Act was established to prevent people with disabilities being treated unlawfully. The Disability Discrimination Act remained in force until all the discrimination acts was consolidated into one‚ the Equality Act (EA) 2010. The Act was introduced to promote equality and diversity and was designed to enhance clarity‚ making it easier to understand for both employers and
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public supported education with mental retardation. Educators have to give the students with mental retardation an equal education as the other students. The effect on the educators is FAPE‚ Free Appropriate Public Education‚ for students with disabilities. Mills vs. The Board of Education (1972) The case was brought up because there were 18‚000 students not enrolled in a school because of behavior problems as in ADHD and other behavior problems. The reason being this is because the schools did
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Person-centred 2.1 A physical disability is any disability that affects the physical function of one or more limbs. Physical disabilities can be either congenital or acquired after birth due to an accident or disease. 2.2 Describe the following terminology used in relation to physical disability: Congenital Acquired Neurological A congenital disability is a medical condition which you are born with‚ congenital disorders are caused by development problems with the fetus before birth
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Arc of the Ozarks is a local human service organization providing help to people in the local communities with physical and mental disabilities. The main local offices for the Arc can be found in Springfield‚ Joplin‚ and Monett‚ Missouri. Interviewing someone from the Arc could have been done over the phone‚ by e-mail‚ and an in-person interview. The in-person interview seemed to be more appropriate because it would allow me to interact with the people who work for the organization and possibly see
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Unit 306 Promote equality‚ diversity and inclusion in work with children and young people. Outcome 1 Legislation/Code of Practice Main Points Equality Act 2010 The Equality Act 2010 aims to protect disabled people and prevent disability discrimination. It provides legal rights for disabled people in the areas of: • employment • education • access to goods‚ services and facilities including larger private clubs and land based transport services • buying and renting land or property
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