Developments in Improving Care for People with Special Needs

The amount of people who live with disabilities is a controversial number. Depending on what law and diagnostic tools used, a person may have a visible disability, or one that may lie beneath the surface of his or her appearance. Some people believe that the term “disability” is merely a label use to hold back, or prescribe helplessness. Meanwhile, individuals who have been properly diagnosed with disabilities struggle to maintain respect and acceptance every day. In plain language, there is a lot of misunderstanding between people with disabilities and those without. It is firstly important to get everyone on the same page regarding the definition of disability.

Disability is a definition of a physical or mental condition which impacts on a person’s movements, activities and senses. People with disabilities were informed of bias and disadvantages compared to an ordinary person. There are many biases and prejudices contributed to the discrimination of individuals with a disability. Partly because of social connotations the disabled people are useless, cannot work. In fact, these extraordinary people always bring and do incredible things. They not only overcome their grim fate, but also bring good things to life, especially those who are perfectly considering better than an ordinary person, they are not aware of the capacity of individuals disabilities with them characteristics such as loyalty, dedication, and hard work.

In the United States today, there are over fifty-one million disabled adults and children. Throughout our nation’s history, we have not allowed the best treatment and care for these numerous citizens. But, in the recent past, the government has passed laws, made exceptions, and thoroughly tried to provide accommodations to these people with special needs. While this is true, America, as a whole, still views this group as strange or different. Even though this is exceptionally normal, it is not correct. The United States needs to be opened up to the truth about their fellow American citizens. The people of America ought to understand that these disabilities affect not only those who are disabled, but that it affects the family and friends

The purpose of this work is to inform the public about what it is really like for people with disabilities both inside and outside the United States. For example he talks about how during research that the Human Rights Watch conducted, they “found that some school administrators refuse to admit children with disabilities because they believe these children are unable to learn, unsafe around other children, or engage in disruptive behavior” which is a harsh reality for disabled kids around the world because they are seen as inept, or unable to do the same as the kids without disabilities.

All they want is to take part of society as a normal individual. The disability-movement has fought for the disabilities rights throughout the years and has achieved goals such as accommodation of architectural infrastructures to serve better people who are physical impairments. The public policies have been great accomplishments because it has helped people with disabilities to be part of society. The disability-movement points out the healthcare finance policies have taken freedom away from the disability community, “ Health-care financing policies force disabled people into Institutions and nursing homes rather than funding independent living. Income-maintenance and public health-insurance policies include “disincentives” that penalize disabled individuals for trying to work productively.”(p.4). The government has done a great job on protecting disabled individuals’ rights. However, the health-care system has isolated this group even more by restricting the level of productivity that they have within the system, as a result this medical model marginalizes this group of people and this program available for this community does not fully address their issues.

In the United States, there are tons of health hospital and facilities, there all know a little bit off something about how important it to care someone with disabilities. There are websites like the national council on disability or the NCD, The United States centers for disease control and prevention or CDC, and health care. There are also resources like gale, which can hold a lot of information about this particular topic. There are a lot of great information out in the world, some are in book that exist somewhere in the world.

The importance of education for all children, especially for those with disability and with limited social and economic opportunities, is indisputable. Indeed, the special education system allowed children with disability increased access to public education. Apart from that, the special education system has provided for them an effective framework for their education, and for the institutions involved to identify children with disability sooner. In turn, this promotes greater inclusion of children with disability alongside their nondisabled peers. In spite of these advances however, many obstacles remain, including delays in providing services for children with disability, as well as regulatory and

There is a huge gap that cannot be explained by words between head knowledge and experiential knowledge with regard how those people with special needs are segregated in those countries. Because the segregation of individuals with developmental delay is so severe, people are often unwilling to admit to having family members with developmental disabilities (Kalyanpur,

Over the years, perceptions towards disability have been significantly changing as result of the long pathway the disable community has taken fighting for Civil Rights, inclusion and against discrimination. Unfortunately, this last one has not been totally accomplished yet. Barriers to social integration still exist in the society. Perhaps the greatest barrier is not the disability itself; is the attitude of people.

The next stage in the development of special education was segregatioin that sought to iinvolve student with disabilities in the same learning instutions as all other students, but in in isolate classrooms. However, this changed upon the enactment of the all handicapped Children Act of 1975, which introduced mainstreaming. This had a postive implication in that handicapped chidren were included and encouregaed to particpate in regualr classrooms hence the period of integration dawned. This was a remarkable achievement and the Act pertaining to education for the handicapped was amended to include six new critical elements in fostering special education. These elements were: parental participation in the special education process, legititmate process to enforece accountability, Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) to formulate a custom program for each student, Least Restrictive Environment (LRE) that allowed the disabled children in regular classrooms as much as possible, A program to find and assess disabled children in a fair manner, free and approprioate public education (FAPE) for all children.

Approximately 15% of the world’s population is, in a way, disabled. Whether it is a physical disability or a serious chronic disease, we have about one billion people in the world that live with a disability every day of their lives. It often occurs that these people are seen as an outcast of society; people that cannot live normal lives. It is important to realize that this is not true at all. People with disabilities are completely able to be part of the world. It is just the world’s duty to accept them.

Worldwide more than 1 billion people are living with disabilities, which means that an estimated 15% of the world population have some kind of disability [1]. Overall, 80% of Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) live in developing countries, where resources are scarce and services less accessible. In Indonesia, an estimated 10% to 15% of the population is living with disabilities according to the data of Riskedas 2007 (riskedas?? source. Although the data vary widely based on different data source and criteria to define disability [2]. In all the data source the prevalence was higher in rural compare to urban regions and higher in women compare to men.

The government of Bangladesh have endorsed numerous legislation and policies to ensure quality to those children with special educational needs and disability. Few of the policies include; Education Policy (2000) and (2010) this policy expressed that to enable equity for special need children, the schools need to provide facilities to support them, Persons with Disability Welfare Act (2001) and many more. However, although having such policies,

Children with intellectual disabilities go to school without knowledge of using the rest room on their own. We teach them for a long time until they know. They are discriminated at home as incapable of anything from childhood. They lock them in without any hope of contributing in the family. If a child with disability is a girl, no hope that she will be married and bring money or dowry at home. If parents had power for death arrangements, children with disabilities would be voted to die first before the rest of the family. Living with children with disabilities requires a strong heart[…]. No one wants to take care of a child with disabilities […]. Even when we teach children them, our fellow teachers ask us, why do you like to work with children with disabilities? Do you receive extra allowance for teaching them? They tell us: “I cannot afford to deal with them. Staying with them, I will be spitting all time, and I would not be able to eat.” I consider these children as the poorest of the poor compared to children coming from rural areas.

According to World Health Organization (WHO) disabled people have low health condition, poor academic achievements, less economic opportunities and high level of poverty (2011). The Brunei government is strongly committed to ensure that people with disabilities have equal rights in the country (Mahmud, 2013). There are three improvements that need to be considered: Financial support, improving awareness for the public and improving the infrastructure.