Developmental disability

When working in a care setting, especially with service users with physical disabilities, workers need to acknowledge that the service users are vulnerable to abuse. This is because people with physical disabilities are so much more dependent on care givers to supply them with the support they need in order to live clean and healthy lives. Two of the main types of abuse that care workers will face when working with vulnerable and disabled service users are physical abuse and neglect. NSPCC…

Uncharted Minds. Beauty Divine. Disability [dis-uh-bil-i-tee] - a physical or mental handicap, especially one that prevents a person from living a full, normal life or from holding a gainful job (“The Definition of Disability.”) When an adult becomes a danger to themselves and/or others due to their inability to properly function, they sometimes go to a group home. That is a substitute home, usually located in a residential neighborhood, providing foster care for orphans, delinquents, disabled…

changes lives by promoting understanding, acceptance, and inclusion among people with intellectual disabilities. Special olympics provides the athletes with opportunities for physical activity, social interaction, demonstration of courage, and demonstration of competence (Special Olympics Pennsylvania). It also allows them to experience joy and friendship. Adults and children with intellectual disabilities should be involved with Special Olympics because it improves the athlete’s personal…

In the article “Short Man Syndrome Is Not Just a Tall Story” short men say there is no such thing as "short man syndrome", but studies disagree. In the book it says “Curley’s like a lot of little guys. He hates big guys” (Steinbeck 26). Curley has what people call “short man syndrome”. He doesn't like big guys because, he isn't big and fights a lot of bigger guys. The authors main part of the article in “Short Man Syndrome Is Not Just a Tall Story” is that short men can get jealous of tall men…

workers’ experiences of working with parents with intellectual disabilities are having children. The article's purpose is to establish design, methodology, approach findings of research limitations and implications, that originally value social workers that work with a child who has a learning disability and may offer the best form of treatment. There has been plenty of evidence shown throughout the years that “parents with intellectual disabilities are estimated to represent 1 percent of the…

Have you ever wondered what service dogs actually do to help people or what their training process is like? Service dogs are (usually big) dogs that are trained to help the injured, blind, and disabled. Service dogs help or save people in many ways and learn to do this by going through a training process. Service dogs are trained to help the disabled. They must go through a training process first. The website Paws for Ability states that the trainers usually want the child to attend to the…

lot of tensions among those who work with children in education and care. To outline:  Social model of disability: this model implies that all individuals have needs but also have some strengths, skills and preferences. This approach means it will provide the children with the same environments as others as a starting point. It considers that the curriculum, the attitudes toward the disabilities and the resources available are the problem not the child. This basically means that a disabled…

Reading the story about the one legged wrestler (Anthony Robles), it got my interested about other athletes that have had success while having some type of physical disadvantage. What really caught my interest, and a question that I wanted to explore on was Have there been any other instances in sports where having a physical disadvantage is considered cheating some people’s eyes. In Anthony robles case they said that his upper body was a lot bigger then all of the people in his weight class,…

Perspectives on Inclusion (Disability Studies). This module will be explored historically, socially, culturally, politically, legally, globally and lastly educational perspectives. Does language matter, the difference of opinions and labels? Intrinsic to all of this was the big question "What is Inclusion?" A class discussion covered a lot of topics but for me, the most meaningful aspect was around the area of language and disability. Previously, in the Disability Studies modules, I also…

Model and the Medical Model: How they Implicate Disability The term disability has been used to identify impairments that are the result of a disease or injury, the emotional, mental and/or physical limitations that an impairment imposes on a person’s life, as well as the environment and social barriers that discourage a person to participate in the activities of their choice. The models of disability have greatly influenced the development of disability, in terms of legislation and policies as…