Discrimination Most People with Disabilities Experience Every Day

Discussion Questions

The writers give some examples of the difficulties that people with physical disabilities face.

1.      Which of these do you think exists in Abu Dhabi? Three.

2.      Which do you think would be the most difficult? People taking Handicap Park.

3.      Is there anything we can do to help educate people to avoid these happening in future?

To give lessons about handicap people and how we can offer to help them.

4.      Can you think of any other problems that people with disabilities face?

People who can’t think properly, will need lots of help from other people around them.

Look at the list of disabilities from the link below and complete the chart for any 5 of the disabilities:

http://web.jhu.edu/disabilities/faculty/types_of_disabilities/

Name of Disability	Typical Characteristics	Considerations and Instructional Strategies
Blindness/Low Vision	·        "Totally blind" students learn via Braille or other nonvisual media.	·        If needed, introduce yourself at the beginning of a conversation and notify the student when you are exiting the room.
Brain Injuries	Highly individual; brain injuries can affect students very differently. Depending on the area(s) of the brain affected by the injury, a student may demonstrate difficulties	·        Brain injury can cause physical, cognitive, behavioural, and/or personality changes that affect the student in the short term or permanently.
Deaf/Hard of Hearing	Deaf or hard of hearing students may: ·        be skilled lip readers, but many are not; only 30 to 40 percent of spoken English is distinguishable on the mouth and lips under the best of conditions	·        American Sign Language (ASL) is not equivalent to English; it is a visual-spatial language having its own syntax and grammatical structure.
Learning Disabilities	Difficulties may be seen in one or more of the following areas: ·        oral and/or written expression ·        reading comprehension and basic reading skills	nstructors who use a variety of instructional modes will enhance learning for students with learning disabilities. A multi-sensory approach to teaching will increase the ability of students with different functioning learning channels—auditory, visual and/or haptic (hands-on)—to benefit from instruction.
Psychiatric Disabilities	Psychiatric disabilities refer to a wide range of behavioral and/or psychological problems characterized by anxiety, mood swings, depression, and/or a compromised assessment of reality.	·        Students with psychiatric disabilities may not be comfortable disclosing the specifics of their disability. ·          ·        If a student does disclose, be willing to discuss how the disability affects him or her academically and what accommodations would be helpful.
Speech and Language Disabilities	Speech and language disabilities may result from hearing loss, cerebral palsy, learning disabilities, and/or physical conditions.	·        Give students opportunity—but do not compel speaking in class. Ask students for a cue they can use if they wish to speak.

Choose one of the disabilities that you discussed above and think about three possible difficulties that people with this disability might face:  Speech and Language Disabilities

1. It might result to a hearing loss

2. Hard to learn

3. Communication problems

Think of an action plan for how these problems can be tackled? By Co-operating with other people, it will help the “Handicap person” to survive and enjoy his life more.