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control the movement in their legs and walk at a speed of about 1.1 mph (Brewster). With this kind of technology, people who were once restricted to a wheelchair could harness the ability to walk around and live a semi-normal life. One of the minor advantages to the Phoenix is that it reduces the secondary injuries caused by being in a wheelchair and sitting constantly such as skin breakdown and pressure ulcers…

Power wheelchairs have two main modules: the base (formed by the batteries, the controller, the wheels and the motors) and the seating system. The wheels configuration will have a direct effect on the wheelchair’s performance in different situations. As we have two types of wheels (drive wheels and castors), depending on how they are positioned and how the weight is distributed, they will be more or less efficient in different situations, environments, terrains, etc. The first critical…

The mistreatment that disabled prisoner experience by the prison officials can be life threatening. One prisoner sued Florida’s Santa Rosa Correctional Institution after he had substantial injuries when put into solitary confinement, without his wheelchair; forcing him to “drag himself across the dirty abrasive cell floor” (Kam). The treatment of Florida’s disabled prisoners is inhumane and cruel. Florida must improve the conditions of prisons to ensure disabled prisoners aren’t being…

Disenfranchisement is a major thing to many people or cultures. What exactly is disenfranchisement, well it is the exclusion from power or access. Simply meaning it excludes certain people from doing things. One group of people who, I believe, are excluded are the mentally impaired people. They are often judged by how they look or act around others. That is something they can not help, so why exclude them from doing stuff we can do? When it comes to the mentally impaired, we usually act…

The first thought I had when I was retrieving the wheelchair, for my turn, was that it was heavy and extremely awkward to carry. The pedals were carried separate and it didn’t collapse very well. It took a lot of work to get it into the back seat of my car. My friend pulling from one side of the car and I shoving it in from the other side. I had played around in a wheelchair before. My grandma uses one and they always have a stock pile at churches. But, in those cases I hadn’t tried to steer…

The Dancing Wheels Company portrays a fantastic utilization of art to bring awareness to social issues. By encouraging the disabled to participate in preforming arts (such as dance), Quinlan (2010) wants to empower these individuals and change the negativity that surrounds the inclusion of persons with disabilities in the arts as well as in broader communities. The Dancing Wheels Company also re-enacted a protest from 1985 on stage with the help of an all-African American partner company in…

People with disabilities have been discriminated, not only in the 1930s, but throughout the sum of time. Many people of the mentally ill community were taken advantage of and were the “test monkeys” for some inhumane treatments. From before, after and during the 1930s, they were thought of as a burden to society. In John Steinbeck’s Of Mice And Men, Lennie Small, one of the main characters, suffers from an intellectual disability. Although he is not the brightest, he is big and strong but does…

Many problems have faced society for centuries and still social issues relevant in today’s society. Many people have tried to bring people’s attention to these social issues in many different ways, including stories and poems. Treatment of the disabled have been a social issue for many years and is still an issue in today’s modern world. For example, the disabled do not have the same opportunities sometimes as others. A writer James Meikle, goes into debt on just how the disabled are not able to…

1. Do you support the disability rights model or the independent living model? Explain and justify your position. Having a nephew who has been disabled since the age of two, I support both the disability rights model, as well as the independent living model. The disability rights model “is based primarily on unfair discrimination” of persons with disabilities (Batavia & Schriner, 2001, p.692). The independent living model refers to environmental modifications which would allow more…

relative in a wheelchair and were very sensitive to the needs of the disabled and we had nothing to worry about. They promised us a wonderful time. So, we crossed our fingers and went on our…