Perceptions of Disability
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As a professional how can one help their students without disabilities treat children with disabilities well? How do we help children look beyond the outward appearance? How would one help their grandparents respond well to a new grandchild with a disability? How could one help a child with a disability deal with the teasing that is often delivered by other children? How can professionals help children with disabilities become resilient and appropriately optimistic? Please provide references.
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The solution provides information, assistance and advice in tackling the task (see above) on the topic of disability perceptions in families, among children as well as relatives. Resilience is also discussed including inclusion. Resources are listed for further exploration of the topic.
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Perceptions of Disability
When a person who is disabled is introduced to another for the first time, ideas and assumptions are taken up by the person meeting the disabled individual about the disabled person - most of these of course are based on common stereotypes and while the ideal position is to hold no biases, this is not necessarily the case in real life. These biases are not necessarily judgmental, negative or prejudicial. The fact is, people with disabilities are often challenged with certain things in comparison to their abled counterparts. These challenges impacts functionality in areas like cognition, physical capacities, emotional state, among other things. Some people can be familiar with these due to exposure while some aren't. And while these assumptions have verisimilitude, they are not always the case for all. But people perceive from previous ideas or exposure to a concept and this impacts attitude. When people form an attitude towards something - i.e. a disabled individual or disability in general - it impacts the way they treat those that are encompassed by that 'something' and this is what leads to bias and discrimination.
First, it is important to define what disability is. According to the World Health Organization (2012), disabilities is an umbrella term that covers, "impairments, activity limitations, and participation restrictions. An impairment is a problem in body function or structure; an activity limitation is a difficulty encountered by an individual in executing a task or action, while a participation restriction is a problem experienced by an individual in involvement in life situations." The US Disability Act of 2008 defines disabilities as follows - " (A)a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities of ...
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