Disability rights

Connection in fact actually helped me more than I believe I had helped them. They helped me overcome my uncomfortableness with the disabled community. Prior to volunteering at Equestrian Connection, I didn’t know how to behave towards kids with disabilities. It might sound wrong but I honestly avoided them at all costs. It wasn’t like I hated the disabled community. I was just very uncomfortable to the point where I didn’t know what to say or how to say it. I felt that with the wrong tone or…

“Stop, take a minute and think about your life.” Well this is exactly what I had to do to complete this assignment. The disability that I decided to imagine myself with was autism and being verbal. To be a student who has autism would mean that they could have trouble communicating what they want, have trouble in social situations, and they could have specific sensitivities to sound and/or touch. If a person is nonverbal, this does not mean that they can’t talk at all, it does mean that they…

me that she felt as though her mind was rotting and fading from doing and seeing the same things every day and she felt that nothing ever changed for her. In the case of Alice and Cheryl who are in an area with locked doors due to their mental disabilities, isolation creates an oppressive…

The Connection Between Mental Illness and Artistic Creativity In my UNV Let’s Go Arts class we are beginning to learn how to research and use the library so we can become better writers for papers such as these. For the class, we had to pick a topic and then try to write a rough outline of what we think the paper would sound and look like with quotes from articles and citations. I was having trouble trying to pick out a topic because of the many general ideas I had, mental illness and modern art…

Advocates, “buildings that are older than 1992 do not need to be retrofitted for wheelchair access but will need to remove any architectural elements that can act as barriers to entry.” However, buildings built after 1992 must follow the Americans with Disabilities Act guidelines. This act states that wheelchair access…

differences and through disabilities. They were both unclear to other children and they had to explain their differences to resolve their problems. They went through times of being left out and discriminated but they figured out ways to fix that. They felt pain everyday emotionally and sometimes possibly physically, but they found out ways that they can stop the pain. Both Kylie and Angie found ways to cope with misunderstandings in their cultural differences and disabilities. In the interview…

Have you ever wonder how many people live by only seeing darkness? The majority of people agree that life cannot exist without light. As a matter of fact, many people especially blind people consider blindness as a barrier and life-changer. For example, Tommy Edison who is born blind said “the experience of life as a blind person had to be a little different to me”. One thing that describes this experience is blindness which is an optic nerve disorder divided into total and partial blindness.…

Disability in Cinema – How has it been portrayed in Avatar? Movies have proven themselves to be a major source of entertainment and business lately, and everybody watches them. What movies portray or reflect, some may just look at it and forget about it the very next moment, but there are some who watch with a completely different perspective and have their ways of thinking influenced by what they see in these movies. Since my paper is about disabilities seen in movies, I’m going to take the…

policies and regulations that ensure they are providing meaningful employment for adults with mental and physical disabilities and not discriminating based on limitations. Although Gone for Good is a facilitator for Rachel, United Cerebral Palsy has rules and regulations prohibiting Rachel from being involved in their various other services. This is due to her lack of physical disability, causing regulations at United Cerebral Palsy specifically to be a barrier. Rachel’s lack of other resources…

Whether we want to acknowledge it or not we are surrounded by broken systems resulting in unsolved issues in our society. Some are more evident than others. Such as the stigma of mental illness. It might not be as visible as poverty but people suffer from mental illness daily. Not only are they suffering from severe repercussions of the illness but they have to cope with societies stigma. The stigma of mental illness hinders people’s ability to obtain high paid jobs, have stable relationships,…