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Disability Equity Management
Introduction Session 7
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Disability Sensitization
An Overview of Myths and Facts
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People with disabilities are braveand courageous.
A. Myth
B. Fact
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All persons who use wheelchairs arechronically ill or sickly
A. Strongly Agree
B. Agree
C. Disagree
D. Strongly Disagree
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`Fact: The association betweenwheelchair use and illness may have
evolved through hospitals usingwheelchairs to transport sick people. Aperson may use a wheelchair for avariety of reasons, none of which may
have anything to do with lingeringillness.
Myth : All persons who use wheelchairsare chronically ill or sickly
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Fact: Although most people who
are blind develop their remainingsenses more fully, they do nothave a "sixth sense."
Myth : People who are blind acquire a"sixth sense."
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People with disabilities are morecomfortable with "their own kind."
A. Yes
B. No
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`Fact: In the past, grouping peoplewith disabilities in separate schoolsand institutions reinforced thismisconception. Today, many peoplewith disabilities take advantage of
new opportunities to joinmainstream society.
Myth : People with disabilities are morecomfortable with "their own kind."
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Fact: Anyone may offer assistance,
but most people with disabilitiesprefer to be responsible forthemselves.
Myth : Non-disabled people are obligated to"take care of" people with disabilities.
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`Fact: People with disabilities go to
school, get married, work, have families,do laundry, grocery shop, laugh, cry, paytaxes, get angry, have prejudices, vote,plan and dream like everyone else
Myth : The lives of people with disabilities aretotally different than the lives of people withoutdisabilities.
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People with disabilities alwaysneed help.
A. Strongly Agree
B. Agree
C. Disagree
D. Strongly Disagree
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`Fact: Many people with disabilities are
independent and capable of giving help. Ifyou would like to help someone with adisability, ask if he or she needs it beforeyou act.
Myth: People with disabilities always need help.
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Disability Sensitization
Some Aspects Related To Etiquette
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Wheelchairs are an extensionof personal space.
A. True
B. False
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If you don't make a habit of leaning or
hanging on people, don't lean or hang onsomeone's wheelchair. Wheelchairs are anextension of personal space.
Personal Space
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`When you offer to assist someone with a
vision impairment, allow the person totake your arm. This will help you to guide,rather than propel or lead, the person.
Vision Impairment
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` Treat adults as adults. Call a person by his or
her first name only when you extend thisfamiliarity to everyone present. Don'tpatronize people who use wheelchairs bypatting them on the head. Reserve this signof affection for children.
Patronizing Behavior
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`When speaking to a person with a disability
ensure that you do not put physical strain onthem example standing in front of a personin a wheelchair however asking is again agood general rule.
Eye level
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When talking with someone who has a
disability, speak directly to him or her,rather than through a companion whomay be along.
Addressing a person with a disability
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` If you would like to help someone with a
disability, ask if he or she needs it beforeyou act, and listen to any instructions theperson may want to give.
Assistance
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`When giving directions to a person in a
wheelchair, consider distance, weatherconditions and physical obstacles such asstairs, curbs and steep hills.
Directions
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When directing a person with a visualimpairment, use specifics such as "left ahundred feet" or "right two yards".
Directions
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`When planning events involving persons with
disabilities, consider their needs ahead oftime. If an insurmountable barrier exists, letthem know about it prior to the event.
Forward planning
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Be careful not to complete sentences itis patronizing
Speech impediments
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"Sticks and stones may break my bones,
but words can never hurt me." It dependson who you talk to.
Really true?
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Mark Twain once said the difference betweenthe right word and the almost right word is thedifference between lightning and a lightningbug.
How true this is.
Words are very powerful. They can lift yourspirits or crush them, put you in a good moodfor the rest of the day or make you want to lock
yourself in your room and hide away from therest of the world.
Really true?
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The term "handicapped" has become so outdated andderogatory that it is no longer used in any kind of
government paperwork. The H-word, as Kathie Snowrefers it to, has its origins in Old English, where itreferred to the loser of a lottery-like game who was leftwith his cap in hand. The term eventually reversed itselfto become hand in cap, hand i cap and finally, handicap.
Article by Megan Drummond (People First)
Handicap
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Affirmative
Derogatory
person with an
intellectual,cognitive,developmentaldisability
retarded;mentallydefective
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Affirmative
Derogatory
person who isblind, person whois visually impaired
the blind
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Affirmative
Derogatory
person who is deaf the deaf; deafand dumb
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Affirmative
Derogatory
person with
epilepsy, personwithseizure disorder
epileptic
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Affirmative
Derogatory
person with aphysical disability,physically disabled
crippled;lame;deformed
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Affirmative
Derogatory
People who are
integrated,productive andsuccessful citizens
Overcame
theirdisability/courage
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Disability Sensitization
People with Disabilities
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A mood disorder is a
condition whereby the
prevailing emotional moodis distorted or inappropriate
to the circumstances.
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Richard Dreyfuss -
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss(born October 29, 1947) isan Academy Award-
winning American actor suffers from manicdepressive disorder
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Harrison Ford - (bornJuly 13, 1942) Ford is bestknown for hisperformances in the StarWars film series and theadventurous archaeologistand action hero depression in his youth
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Abraham Lincoln -
(February 12, 1809 April15, 1865) was the sixteenth
President of the United
States, serving from March
4, 1861 until hisassassination chronic
form of depression
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Tourette syndrome (also called Tourette's
syndrome, Tourette's disorder, Gilles de la Tourette
syndrome, GTS or, more commonly, simply
Tourette's orTS) is an inherited neurological
disorder with onset in childhood, characterized by
the presence of multiple physical (motor) tics and
at least one vocal (phonic) tic; these tics
characteristically wax and wane.
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David Beckham -
David suffers from OCDand it manifests itselfthrough constant
cleanliness andperfection of all that isaround him
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Wolfgang AmadeusMozart - (1756-1791) In
late 1992, the British
Medical Journal publishedan article by
endocrinologist Benjamin
Simkin, M.D. speculatingthat Mozart had Tourette
Syndrome
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Epilepsy is a common chronic neurological
disorder that is characterized by recurrent
unprovoked seizures. These seizures are
transient signs and/or symptoms due to abnormal,excessive or synchronous neuronal activity in the
brain.
Epilepsy is usually controlled, but not cured, with
medication, although surgery may be considered
in difficult cases.
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Sir Isaac Newton (4January 1643 31 March
1727) A very important
scientist who isresponsible for founding
the three laws of motion
along with studiesconcerning Universal
Gravitation
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Julius Caesar- (July 13, 100BC March 15, 44 BC), One
of the most influential men in
world history, Caesarparticipated in the army with
distinction constantly excelling
in leadership skills. He had a
ruthless personality andthought of himself as far
superior
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Obsessive compulsive disorder(OCD) is apsychiatric disorder, specifically, an anxiety
disorder. OCD is manifested in a variety of
forms, but is most commonly characterized
by a subject's obsessive drive to perform aparticular task or set of tasks, compulsions
commonly termed rituals.
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1809-1882
Naturalist,author; OCD
and stutter.
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Schizophrenia is a psychiatric diagnosis
that describes a mental illness
characterized by impairments in the
perception or expression of reality, mostcommonly manifesting as auditory
hallucinations, paranoid or bizarre delusions
or disorganized speech and thinking in the
context of significant social or occupationaldysfunction.
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John Nash - (born June
13, 1928) John Nash is anAmerican mathematician
working in differential
geometry, game theory and
partial differentialequations.
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Disability Sensitization
South Africans With Disabilities
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Disability Sensitization
Technology
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