Disabilities: Journal Analysis

The article “introducing disability Studies” by Ronald J. Berger was an eye opener in uncovering the past history of negative stigma associated with having a disability. Through history people have felt the need to stare at people with disabilities or to turn away in fear of maybe contracting the “disease”. This negative attitude was positively reinforced by ordinances such as the Chicago “ugly law” in which a person with physical deformities would have to pay a fine for simply being too “disgusting” looking to other citizens. This law was in place from 1880 to 1973, which is pretty recent in history. However there are positive glimpse in history when it came to uncovering and defining disabilities. Men like Leo Kanner and Asperger have dedicated

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

The authors of this article offer a six-step approach to teaching the common core standards to students with severe disabilities. The steps include: selecting a text, targeting the common core state standard, adapting the text, developing the lesson template, incorporating evidence and research-based practices, and including a writing component. The assumption is that once teachers follow this approach, student mastery of the standards, will increase.

Children that don’t have disabilities often times play an active role and are able to take personal ownership of their reading and writing curriculum, however; teachers and caregivers often times dominate literacy learning opportunities for students with disabilities. Marvie’s dysarthria proves as a barrier to acquisition of literacy in its nature because literacy is based upon the oral and spoken complexities of language that typically develop in early life (Beukelman & Mirenda, 2013, p. 313). Most importantly, cultural context serves as a great barrier for individuals like Marvie. Culturally there is little expectation that someone with cerebral palsy will develop exemplary literacy skills and there is usually a push to strengthen other skills (Beukelman & Mirenda, 2013, p. 313). Majority of parents would rather their child or loved one be able to verbally communicate, develop relationships, and or become functionally independent rather than focusing on reading and writing (Beukelman & Mirenda, 2013, p. 313 ). The brutal awareness of Marvie’s reality could have potentiality to become toxic to her advancement without realistic

In order for the person to qualify for ADA he or she must have an impairment that substantially limits him orher from one or more major life activites" When a family is trying to figure out if someone in their household qualifys for ADA, the person must have a disability such as cannot walk or has trouble eating. A learning disability will not be covered because that does not fall under a person being disabled. neither does stuttering as in ADA does not consider that a disability.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the potential of spin rate and axis direction of curveballs for use as screening parameters in identifying youth pitchers with particular susceptibility to arm injury. The Doppler-radar system TrackMan will be used to collect the spin rate data during live games. Pain, which will be used as a model for injury will be quantified using The Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand (DASH) questionnaire. The Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient will be calculated to determine the strength of correlation between the maximum reported DASH score of a participant and the average spin rate of his curveballs. This study will help improve the understanding of which youth baseball pitchers will develop arm problems and thereby to provide information for establishing safety regulations or recommendations.

Children who have sever disabilities are affected by mental, physical and medical complications. Commonly, infants born with Spina bifida suffer from a condition called Hydrocephalus, which is often referred to as fluid/water on or surrounding the brain. The fluid that is enclosing the brain can cause significant swelling and brain damage. Hydrocephalus needs to be treated swiftly, using surgery to minimize the damage to the brain. A surgeon is able to place a small hollow tube, called a shunt inside the infant’s skull to help drain extra fluid and protect against excessive swelling. These shunts do frequently have complications and a replacement surgery is needed. The risk for infection is high due to the location of the shunt. Additional

Employment Preparation and Life Skill Development Initiatives for High School Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disabilities. (n.d.). Retrieved April 30, 2017, from http://tpcjournal.nbcc.org/employment-preparation-and-life-skill-development-initiatives-for-high-school-students-with-emotional-and-behavioral-disabilities/

Children with disabilities should be given the special treatment, the law states that we should all take into considerations the special requirement that they need. One action that we, the researchers, did for them is that we conducted this research. This research can identify the Specific Area of Disability that they have that concerns with their senses. This is one of the many special treatment that we can provide for them as

The topic of Disability and the Education System is about disability education. The article talks about the evolution of the special education in the United State, and how the nation’s education system serves children with disability and make them receive education. The main claim of Disability and the Education System is that people with disability should receive education because education is important for all children. The submain is that the special education system establishes an infrastructure for educating and helping the paralysis people. Within schools, paralysis people can have many difference kind of approached and supports, for example, curriculum instruction, small-group, individual instruction or teachers will have special skill

The article “Virtual Worlds: A New Opportunity for People with Lifelong Disability?” in the Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability addresses the idea of using virtual worlds to allow people with disabilities the opportunity to interact socially with others in order to then use those skills in real life situations. In the article it states that virtual worlds have been used in the past to train individuals with intellectual disabilities how to interact in various situations. The article also address the idea that people who have physical, or speech disabilities can have the opportunity to interact with others in a social setting without having to reveal their disability. The article stated that in the real world many times people

Likewise, disabled people also should receive the equal treatment and opportunity at the workplace as the women does. People with disability shouldn’t be discriminated as the one who can’t work well in the industry. According to the article, “People with disabilities find work with new San Francisco program”, Laura Shumaker describes, “Each job is unique and requires a specific skill-set, and each job is being performed by a person with disabilities” (qtd in SFGATE.blog). This shows that disabled people can get jobs in some program such as program that developed at UCSF with the local nonprofit organization, Toolworks to provide more job opportunities with on-job-support and classroom instruction. Based on this opportunity, disabled people

What does your disability look like? What is the type, severity, and physical descriptions of your disability? Be sure to include physical and/or mental components here. The more detailed, the better.

In “Mapping Composition- Inviting Disability in the Front Door”, by Jay Dolmage, composition and literacy in higher education takes center stage. He mentions in his writing that, “For all students to have access to those things composition has to offer- literate ‘skills,’ a voice, the words to write the world- we must endure that disability is recognized and respected. (Dolmage 1)”. When he says this, he means that universities or institutions of higher education usually exclude people with physical and or mental disabilities because there may not be ramp accessible buildings and classrooms, or resources and curriculum geared for people with not so visible mental disabilities. Then he continues later in the paragraph to say, “I sketch a new map of composition, one that recognizes the ways students with disabilities have been excluded, the ways the academy has accommodated them, as well as the ways that disability, as an identity and an epistemology, has and will continue to push us to seeing teaching and learning a new, broader and more empowering ways (Dolmage 16)”.