Disability studies

Chapter 10 discusses disability in the workplace by two Essays, and one Case Study. The first essay discusses the Drugstore Walgreens, and how they have a large amount of employees who have a disability, specifically cognitive ones and some who suffer from autism. Currently their center in South Carolina has 400 employees with disabilities. They are planning to open a center in Windsor, CT that will double the amount of disabled employs to make the number 800. This minority group is very common…

The Interview The Tennessee Disabilities Coalition (TDC) is a collection of various nonprofit organizations that have come together in order to aid both disabled children and adults improve on their lives. Originating from an informal volunteers and groups of individuals performing community service, TDC was formalized in 1988 and received its first major grant in 1989 from the Tennessee Developmental Disabilities Council. Since then, it has been steadily building up into the major support for…

Introduction We can define professional as someone who “exhibits a courteous, conscientious and generally businesslike manner in the workplace” (Saskatchewan Polytechnic, 2015, p. 1). We as Disability Support Workers are known as professionals in our field. (Saskatchewan Polytechnic, 2015, p.1). In class, Darrell describes that a piece of paper or certificate is not enough to describe us as professionals, it is a shopping bag of resources and research that will help us to become…

the American with Disabilities Act’s articles on the accommodation implementation for the employees with disabilities in their offices. The survey will collect information, ideas, and critics from the workers’ perspective on how they give reaction to the offices’ accommodation provided by the employers. Some significant reasons to collect this data are, first, we will know the accommodation provided by the employers is either appropriate or not to the workers with disabilities for reducing…

Populations that deal with increasing vulnerability to health disparities and may withstand increased barriers when receiving primary care are individuals with developmental disabilities. There are approximately 54 million people in the United States that have some type of medical, developmental, or physical disability (Buttaro, Trybulski, Bailey, & Sandberg-Cook, 2013). These disabling conditions may range from physical, emotional, or mental limitations. The physical impairments can include…

What is a developmental disability? A developmental disability is a mental or physical impairment which is chronic and begins before an individual reaches adulthood. There are many different types of developmental disabilities. They include Intellectual Disability (ID), epilepsy, autism, and cerebral palsy, which is the disorder this paper will be focusing on (CA.Gov 2013). Cerebral Palsy is an impairment in the area of the brain that controls muscle tone and movement. Cerebral Palsy does not…

Introduction According to the World Health Organization (2011), 15% of the global population are estimated to live with some form of disability, and between 110 million and 190 million adults have significant difficulties in functioning. Disabled people are the world’s largest minority group who do not have access to opportunities on equal basis with other people (Disabled People’s Association, Singapore 2015). Disabled people had been defined as ‘socially dead’, their impairments identified as…

The Social & Medical Models of Disability Introduction: There are two main models of disability which are the medical model and the social model. ' 'Models of Disability are tools for defining impairment and, ultimately, for providing a basis upon which government and society can devise strategies for meeting the needs of disabled people '. (Models of Disability Michigan Disability Rights Coalition, (nd). Both of these models include insights into people 's perspective, how they…

How to cope with students with learning disability There are specific attributes of Aaron’s disability that entail specific behavioral characteristics, cognitive function or physical attributes of a learning disorder. That is why he has to constantly take attention deficit hyperactivity disorder medication. People with this kind of disorder exhibit behavioral symptoms like being impulsive, short attention span and inattentiveness, restlessness, easily distracted, over-activity or even constant…

Before the American with Disabilities Act, there were other laws passed in order to improve with quality of life for those with disabilities; acts such as the education for all handicapped children, which ensured that all children even those with disabilities, had a free public education. According to Minor and Minor the Architectural Barriers Act of 1968, which focused on accessibility to and within federal buildings (2014 Chapter 1, p.8). The American with Disabilities Act of 1990 and Revised…