The Existence Of Services For Students With Milder Levels Of Impairment

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.

This is exemplified in the World Health Organisation definition of impairment, disability and handicap. Impairment is a physiological, psychological or anatomical abnormality, while disability is the abnormality in terms of activity and handicap is the inability to fill a normal role due to the impairment. (reference required-1) Notice the emphasis on normality and the specified cause of the

Looking back in the past, there have been many features, and true definitions of the word disability. In the 1970s a group called the Union of the Physically Impaired Against Segregation defined disability as the disadvantage or restriction of activity cased by social organizations. U.S disability activists made efforts during the 1970s to form different alliances with the disability community, that protested for the inclusion of disability discrimination under the Rehabilitation act. Thereafter there was a medial model at looking at disability, that views disability as an individual shortfall. In

Today’s society is different in its thinking when dealing with people with disabilities. There had to be many changes made in its labeling, and approach when dealing with people who may have physical/mental differences. The ostracize behavior that people were known to disturb in society has changed a great deal, due to the many federal laws that have been put in place to insure the well-being of people that have disabilities. In 1972, one very well-known case is Mill vs Board of Education of the District of Columbia this case address how the constituted rights of students were not being meet by not providing them with a public education.” Many disabled children had been excluded from public education prior to 1975,24 Congress, through the Act, sought initially to set up a process by which states would find children in need of educational services and bring them into the system”(Kotler, p.491,2014).

A disability is a condition of impairment--a physical or mental condition--that limits a person’s activities or functioning. Handicap is used when legally specifying life processes or social activities that adversely affect a person’s functioning. A handicap is much more limiting than a disability.

Another obvious physical disability is an individual's confinement to a wheelchair. People who cannot walk under their own power are usually at a great disadvantage. Many times there are no special considerations made for these people. Even some typical expressions demonstrate this lack of compassion, such as "I have to run to the store", or "I'm going for a walk." People in wheelchairs are often considered weak and unable to care for themselves. However, some advances have been made in our society that encourages the independence of these people. Wheelchair ramps, handicap parking, and cuts in the curb of sidewalks are just some of the more obvious changes that have been made to better accommodate these people. But some problems may still occur for people in wheelchairs. Some hallways and doors may not be wide enough for the chair to fit through and when it is icy outside it is very easy to slide if the pavement is not sanded properly.

Disability – a disability usually causes a barrier/delay to development in one or more areas. E.g. a child with cerebral palsy may have difficulties with communication or understanding and struggle to meet milestones like walking or talking.

23. The major difference between a disability and a handicap is that a disability is an inability to do something specific, such as being unable to hear or to walk, while a handicap

from the regular educational environment occurs only if the nature or severity of the disability is such that education in regular classes with the use of supplemental aids and services cannot be achieved satisfactorily.” (300.114 (a) (2) (i) (ii)) (IDEA, 2004)”.

With the increase of student enrollment, students with Learning Disabilities enrolling in colleges have also increased. The average increase in this population has been 40%, which is a big jump for many of the universities as stated by Reid and Knight (2006) However, it is the two year colleges, which has jumped to 71% of its incoming student as indicated by McCleary-Jones (2007), has had the most dramatic increase. There are many factors that could have attributed to the college enrollment increase of students with learning disabilities. Introduction of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which prohibits discrimination against those that are disabled, ensured that reasonable accommodations where made for students with learning disabilities, and the demystification of the abilities of disabled people have played a factor in increase enrollment of college students, which was mentioned by Reid, and Knight (2006). Regardless of the increase of students with

Disability does not predispose an individual to weakness, dependence, decreased mental capacity, or inability to understand and provide for one’s own healthcare. Promoting independence, education, and knowledge provides a disabled person with the tools to live their lives fully within the limits of their disability. This also includes their right to accept or deny treatment.

For most of our nation's history, children with special needs or disabilities were shunted aside. In spite of mandated education laws that had been in place since 1918, many students were denied education and

Another form of discrimination that is occurring in society is disabled people who are not receiving the necessary benefits. For instance, most of the disabled individuals do not receive equal benefits because they do not have a job. Most do not have access to medical or insurance because they do not have a job in which they can support themselves. This kind of discrimination and treatment creates disabled people to have feelings of anger and sadness as they are not being protected and their rights are violated. Society characterizes disabled people as not being normal because of their physical or emotional disability. Another form of discrimination that is occurring is how disabled students are not receiving the education and support they need. Today there is not enough teachers who are willing to help disabled students with their special education. Also, budget cuts are currently affecting public schools and instead of investing that money for special education, 85% of the budget is spent on salaries and the benefits of the employees. This not only is affecting the disabled students, but also there are not available resources to support them. Although disabled students are discriminated there are some great resources that are available to them. On the other hand, handy cap students that come from low- income families have an advantage of receiving free education and transportation.

Impairment describes the features that individual lives are incapacitated form completed functioning (Simonsick, 1998). For instance, blind, deaf or spavined. Usually, they are directly related to biology and genetics. It is a biomedical term. Disability regards impairments as differences in forms of social reactions (Simonsick, 1998). It represents social discrimination that rule out people from normal life. For example, people with lower extremity impairment that could not get on a car or have a running race are classified as disabled. It is a social term. People with physical impairment are socially

Students with learning disabilities first and foremost need help to learn the material presented in K-12. However, it is important to help the students prepare for a college setting as well in which learning disabilities also play a huge role. It is not only important for school institutions to help students with learning disabilities prepare for college, it is also important that the family is supportive and helpful in order for the student to succeed. If parents are willing to help the student succeed, there is a higher rate of the student actually succeeding and making it through college to a bachelor’s degree (Showers & Kinsman, 2017). However, there are several complications for students with learning disabilities that have to convert from the K-12 schooling system to a college setting. The tutorial services at several institutions are general and not specific for students with learning disabilities and these students therefore have a hard time adjusting to this school setting because they do not get the help that is needed in order for them to succeed. Students receive less academic support and are further expected to succeed through independence at college institutions, which can be difficult for students with learning disabilities that count on academic support as well as often have a lower level of independence when it comes to schoolwork. It can be a frustrating time for students with learning disabilities if a college institution does not have a learning