Disabilities Essay

Disability Simulation I did the disability simulation to fulfill one of my 6 requirement of the pick 6. I choose to understand students with a physical disability and have to use a wheelchair. I borrowed my mom’s wheelchair one day, not only to do this project, but also because I had to get an injection in my knee for the first time and the doctor hit a nerve and had to do it twice and told me to stay off my foot the rest of the day. It was a challenging experience for me to get around in a…

Thematic Convergences: Disability as “special ability”? The three films reveal a series of thematic convergences, set in the interplay between “nature” and “culture”, in the understanding and negotiation of the experience of disability, as well as, the “personal” and “public” dimensions of the disability experience in patriarchal social settings. The arrival of a child with disability is a life-changing event, especially regarding the general attitude towards disability in particular cultural…

was a pioneer in the field of anthropology and brought disability forward, as she studied cross-cultural conceptions of epilepsy in the 1930s. Jane and Lucien Hanks wrote a cross-cultural study that looked at social factors that influence the status of people with disabilities in variety of cultures: Native American, Asian, Pacific, and African populations; and Margaret Mead, who studied under Ruth Benedict, spoke about people with disabilities as members of the “normal” American population, and…

school with a disability: therefore, I thought Jackson State University of Disability Services would expand knowledge of those suffering with a disability. The Department of Disability Services assist those who have a disability. According to, American Disability Act (ADA), benefit students with physical, psychological, intellectual, attention deficit disorder, visual impairments, traumatic, hearing impairments, learning disabilities, medical disabilities and mobility disabilities, but students…

The term Specific Learning Disability (SLD) exists as a kind of catch-all to label individuals who have deficiencies in “one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, that may manifest itself in the imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or to do mathematical calculations, including conditions such as perceptual disabilities, brain injury, minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia, and developmental aphasia”…

The medical model of disability is a model which identifies the impairment of a disabled person as the problem, of which, the aim is to fix or cure this impairment by means of medical professionals whereas the social model of disability is a model which identifies that society creates barriers in the environment that do not allow disabled people from participating fully and equally to those who are able bodied and looking at ways that can remove these barriers for disabled people. This essay…

In order to keep the children with physical disabilities to engage in learning, provide additional time for activity and for transportation, positive nurturing environment, easy access to material and independence to explore. Second, children with physical disability also experience problem with the psychological factors such as motivation, self -confidence, and social interaction. Children who are socially…

consequences that photos of disability have in our society. She claims that there are four visual rhetorics that determine the message a viewer receives when looking at a photo of disability, the wondrous, sentimental, exotic, and realistic, and that these factors can either help or hinder the appropriate representation of people with disabilities. This topic of appropriate disability representation is important because it gives a sense of belonging and inclusion for one who has a disability and…

This study will define the subjective forms of medical and social discrimination that are imposed on people with disabilities due to being considered a “minority group.” The dispute over the social circumstances of disabilities has often been framed through the traditional “social model” or “minority” to define discrimination, but the majority of ‘able-bodied” persons tend to create the policies and rules for protecting the rights of disabled people. However, the argument that impairment and…

Having a learning disability or being different can be quite confusing for children. Often children live with astigmatism of being different because of the way they learn. Providing a safe environment for all students with a learning disability or not is impactful to any child’s success. I have a step child with ADHD and see his struggles in large classrooms. There have been times when other children would tease him or teachers would label him as being a problem or a distraction in his class…