Disability rights

injury or they were born with it. People are always trying to find the easy way to do things and the sad part is that we, as human are suppose to be trying to better ourselves. Welfare is there to help the people that can’t work because they have a disability that restrains them from…

and jerky movements of those diagnosed with Angelman, but was later renamed because the name was found to be offensive. The research on this syndrome started in 1964, when three kids were admitted to a children’s ward in England with a variety of disabilities. It was originally thought that they all had different conditions, but there seemed to be a common cause for the way they acted. In 1987, a physician at the Oregon Health Science Center named Ellen Magenis researched children who had…

disabled people have often been isolated, made invisible, avoided, and sometimes deprived of status. These responses are reminisces of the past which initiates that who will undergo the luminal phase of many rites of passage. He further argues that “‘disability is not a thing’, it is a juncture within a process, an assortment in the life history that is dramatized in a rite of passage frozen in its luminal stage…

Teaching students on the Autism Spectrum can be a difficult task for educators. However, it can be accomplished in a variety of ways when teaching students with various types of Autism. Furthermore, in order for the teaching to be effective, the learning must be differentiated for the students. Also, lessons should be modified to address the needs of each individual child. It is imperative to fully understand a child’s diagnosis before teaching them. Because Autism has several different…

Schizophrenia often carries a lot of social stigma in modern day society. Media representation plays a large part in this, as it has created a lot of confusion about the illness which in turn has led to a fear of those suffering with schizophrenia. The media has often inaccurately reported the symptoms and the specifics of the illness which has led to misleading ideas and opinions. Furthermore the media have created the impression that people with schizophrenia are unpredictable and dangerous.…

get extra help, and support they need. Therapy sessions help the patient and the family gets together and talks to better understand that mental disorder. In that therapy secession, they also get to express their own thoughts and concerns. With the right treatment individuals with the illness can go back to living a productive healthy life (Mental Health…

Resilience is the ability to recover after difficult times or events that affect your life. When a person suffers after a tragedy but they keep on going to do what they love to do, that is resilience. Resilience is where the person does not give up when they get hurt and they stand back up, this shows the person toughness and resilience. Night also shows resilience when they have enter the concentration camp, stripped of their identities and they had to be working as slave while grasping on the…

For the disability ministry project, we were asked to choose a practicum experience where we shadowed or spoke to someone helping someone with a disability. For my project I chose to spend some time in the class for disabled children at the high school I graduated from. Throughout the glimpse of time that was allotted for this particular practicum experience I learned a lot of exciting things about disabilities, but also made some disconcerting revelations. While spending the day at school I was…

One Star Foundation promotes faith and inclusion to communities for individuals with disabilities in Central Texas, specifically Austin, Texas. According to One Star Foundation’s main page, “from 2012 -2015 the foundation was working with a grant provided by the Texas Council for Developmental Disabilities (TCDD) and Meadows Foundation” (One Star Foundation). This foundation meets quarterly in Austin, Texas to discuss this grant in hopes to brainstorm ideas in growing and assisting those who…

Shange’s use of language is also important to examine in the context of writing against the grain. The English language has been used to oppress black women for centuries. The stereotypes we see regarding black women in the spoken and written word, and the power that language has in shaping the way we think and act are impossible to ignore. Shange, in her interview with Luster, discusses the idea of “[l]anguage as a liberator” in conjunction with how women are oppressed through language, stating…