Disabilities In America

Gurney et al (2006) and Nocon (2006) both acknowledge that children with learning disabilities have a greater need for the health services compared to the general population and this high level of need extends into adulthood. A recent Confidential inquiry into premature deaths of patients with LD has found that the average age of death of people with LD (sixty-five years for males and 63 years for females) as being significantly less than the United Kingdom population of seventy-eight years for men and eighty-three for women (Heslop et al

Ultimately Americans’ view disabilities as something that needs medical treatment and educational intervention. Other cultures views toward individuals with disabilities are both similar and different in some ways. Pacific Islanders believing that disabilities are a result of their ancestors wrong doing, individuals from the Philippines believing that that a disability is a curse and reject the individuals, and the Chamorro culture believes that individuals with disabilities should be protected because disabilities are a gift from good.

Approximately 5% of all public school students are identified as having a learning disability this is not a single disorder, but includes disabilities in any of seven areas, these relate to reading, language, and mathematics. These separate types of learning

The Americans with Disabilities Act was executed in 1990. It stated that the act is a civil right that forbids the discrimination towards anyone with a disability. Basically, no discrimination in school, work, etc. Disabilities such as a disability of vision, learning, mental health, or movement. Places of work used to not accommodate people, but now they must. People with disabilities were gainful from the ADA act. After the act was executed, people with disabilities, places of work were now required to do so. A lot people profited from the ADA it was helpful in many ways. The American Deaf community was a group who benefited from the ADA act. The issue with that is the Deaf community do not label themselves as disabled, but a culture. The

Thanks to compassionate politics, informed leaders and accepting citizens, disabled Canadians and tourists are able to experience and explore the sights, sounds, smells and other senses available in the many exciting areas of Canada. It is possible to enjoy many of the most popular features that define Canada regardless of physical, mental or emotional impairment.

The American with Disabilities Act was signed into law on July 26, 1990, by President George H.W. Bush. (Mayerson, 1992). According to Hallahan, Kauffman, & Pullen (2015, P, 14) “the ADA provides protection of the civil rights in the specific areas of employment, transportation, public, accommodation, State and local government, and telecommunication. According to Mayerson (1992, P1) “the ADA did not began at the signing ceremony at the White House, but it began in the communities, when parents with children with disabilities began to fight against the exclusion and segregation of the children". The foundation of the ADA, is the disability rights movement. The disability movement fought for the rights of the people with disability. According to Mayerson (1992, P, 1) "The disability rights movement, has made the injustices faced by the people with disabilities visible to the American public and politicians." Without the contribution of the disabilities rights movement there would not have been an ADA. Like the civil rights movement before the people with disabilities sat in federal buildings, marched through the streets to protest the injustice. Also, they sought justice in the courts (Mayerson, 1992). According to Mayerson (1992, P 2) " From a legal perspective, a profound and historic shift in the disability public policy occurred in the 1973 with the passage of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act". Section 504 is the U.S federal law that protect the people with

There is a controversy whether or not people who are obese should or shouldn’t be covered by the American with Disabilities Act.

“The therapeutic reduction, however, denies that persons are ever moral agents, responsible for their actions, and implies instead that they can never be understood and reasoned with as autonomous equals” (Delattre, E. J., p.259, 2011). Reviewing the seminar slides it states that since society is corrupt, then so is law enforcement. I don’t realize just as long as a society is corrupted means that all police office departments are corrupt, but it’s all around what type of people you have working for you as a police officer. I assume if society protected illegal drug users under the “Americans with Disabilities Act”, next other people will start to claim that they have a disability just to have the drugs they wish. In the book it states that

All Americans deserve the right to receive the best medical treatment available, that includes those with disabilities. So what is ADA? What makes it so essential? ADA may seem like just a couple letters from the alphabet, although to a person that has a disability it means a whole lot more. ADA stands for Americans with Disabilities Act.

The Americans with Disabilities Act signed by President George H. W. Bush in July 26, 1990, outstands against discrimination to disabled individuals. Being one of the most complete legalization of civil privileges, this act promises individuals with disabilities that they will have the same opportunities as everyone else to contribute in the regular American life - to buy services and goods, to enjoy job opportunities, and to contribute in local and in state government services and programs.

Since it was signed into law in 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) has been a challenge for employers to implement. This law prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in both public and public businesses. There were numerous lawsuits where disabled employees have charged that employers have failed to accommodate his or her needs in the workplace. However, Supreme Court decisions interpreted the act in a way that made it difficult to prove that an impairment was a disability thereby ruling in favor of an employer. As a result, the ADA Amendments Act of 2008 (ADAA) was enacted to “clarify the definition of disability “(United States, Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, 2014, para. 1). Companies from every industry struggle to ensure that it meets the requirements to ensure that no disparity between individuals with a disability and those without a disability. In Accommodations of Patients with Disabilities in Primary Care: A Mixed Methods Study of Practice Administrators, the author addresses the disparities in how health care facilities treat individuals with disabilities compared to individuals with no disability (Pharr, 2013). This paper will summarize the findings of this study and the impact of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the ADA Amendments Act of 2008 on health care.

It is both sad and interesting to be living in a world that has made such significant strides to create equality for everyone, but still have the term “minorities” exist. In a perfect world, everyone would be treated equally and given an equal shot at success. A minority group defined as “a subordinate group whose members have significantly less control or power over their own lives than the members of a dominant or majority group have over theirs.” TEXT BOOK To refer to some has subordinate and others as dominant shows the inequality that still exists. More specifically, Americans with disabilities are considered a minority group and experience inequalities in many aspects of life including education, media, government and politics,

Lerner, J. & Johns, B. (2015) Learning Disabilities and Related Disabilities. Stamford: Cengage Learning. 432- 457

The use of technology in educating children with special needs has widely grown in the past few decades. Individuals with special needs are unique and all have different areas in which they need assistance. Due to the advancements in assistive technology, computer programs, software, and other technology tools, it has become much easier for people to find useful and easier ways to become educated. Because of this, “technology has changed the way people with disabilities live, work, and learn.” (Winzer,98)

This is not just a disadvantage to disabled people in the United States, it is a problem world wide. In the United Kingdom, only 6 percent of young disabled people are employed (O'mahony). All this leaving the United Kingdom with just “less than one in 20 people with a mental or physical disability are in paid employment”(O’mahony). Disabled people around the world in different nations are taken away the feeling of usefulness and the feeling of accomplishment. Affecting the disabled both financially but also emotionally.