1. Disability Coping Strategies And Social Change

2. What is Disability?
A disability is a condition or function judged to be significantly impaired relative to the usual standard of an individual or group.

3. World Health Organization
Three dimensions of disability are recognized in The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health
Body structure and function, activity, and participation
The classification also recognizes the role of physical and social environmental factors in affecting disability outcomes.

4. Types of Disability Mobility and Physical Impairments
Head Injuries - Brain Disability
Vision Disability
Hearing Disability
Cognitive or Learning Disabilities
Psychological Disorders
Invisible Disabilities

5. Crimes
In 2007, 79 hate crimes were reported against individuals with disabilities, one percent of the total reported.
Eric Krochmaluk
One incident in Gloucestershire

6. Crimes cont’d Disabled people who require assistance
Failure to recognize hate crimes

7. Barack Obama Video by the President
Talking about a world without barriers
The families struggles with the barriers placed in front of their family member
Education- IDEA
Independent Living

8. Americans With Disabilities Act
Signed into law by George W. Bush in 1990
Civil Rights Law that prohibits discrimination based on ability
Five titles included in the law:
Employment
Public Entities (public transportation)
Commercial Facilities
Telecommunications
Miscellaneous
Protection from retaliation

9. Section 504
Law attempting to eliminate barriers faced by people with disabilities in public education
Identify and Locate
Law states:
No otherwise qualified individual with a disability in the United States... shall, solely by reason of her or his disability, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.

10. IDEA Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
Provide Financial Funds to Schools to Guarantee Special Education

11. Self Advocating
This Video is Written and Performed by People with Intellectual Disabilities

12. Self Advocating People First Movement Oregon- 1974
The Language of Disability
Move away from labels
Older terms: Mentally Retarded People
Newer terms: Person with intellectual disabilities
Emphasize that people with disabilities are people

13. Self Advocating: Tips Know Yourself Know What You Need
Skill Level, Strengths, Weaknesses
Know What You Need
Interventions, Accommodations, Modifications
Know How to Get What You Need
Self-education, Communication, Support
Self-Advocacy: Know Yourself, Know What You Need, Know How to Get It by Nancy Suzanne James

14. Self Advocating Self Advocates Becoming Empowered
Founded in 1990
Helping people advocate for themselves
Full inclusion for people with developmental disabilities
Full inclusion: all people should accommodate people with disabilities without any limitations.
Also used in education: mainstreaming

15. Current Events Education Secretary Australian Court South Carolina
Duncan
Enforce Civil Rights Laws in schools
Australian Court
Parents receive court approval to sterilize their disabled eleven year old
South Carolina
Budget cuts for services
Medication maximum
Wheelchair accessibility

16. Oppression faced by people with disabilities
governmental and organizational indifference and delays, sometimes from the very medical personnel, agencies and individuals meant to help you.
emotional reaction at your change in status from an "able" person to a disabled person.
peer may potentially feel uncomfortable with you.
others to react differently to you than they did before the onset of your disability.

17. Causes of continued oppression
Fear, worry and dismay on the part of relatives and friends
Ignorance, lack of information and lack of understanding
Cultural and societal stereotypes, prejudices or bigotry
Hidden or unidentified lack of pressure on the school systems
Lack of full funding and advocacy

18. Why People Feel Uncomfortable Around Individuals With Disabilities
Social uneasiness
Paternalism
Assumptions about emotions
Assumptions about abilities

19. Similarities to people with people who don’t have disabilities
Eat
Breathe
Learn
Make love
Raise families
Get arrested for civil disobedience
Laugh
Cry

20. Parents Advocating Tips:
Observe and Record.
Talk with teachers.
Pursue an evaluation.
Share information with your child's teacher and school.
Familiarize yourself with laws and services.
Partner with your child's teacher and school administrators.
Get involved politically.

21. Volunteers & Care Providers Advocating Tips:
Familiarize yourself with the child’s diagnosis
Watch for physical and behavioral changes
Seek out the opinions of those who know the child best
Educate yourself about local resources as well as your child’s team of service providers
Know the child’s education rights
Know the role of the care provider
Focus on short-term goals

22. Advocating Tips for teachers:
Become familiar with IDEA
Develop IEP
Effective communication
Develop positive relationships with parents
Positive relationship with the disabled individual

23. Overall Tips For Interactions With People With Disabilities
Treat disabled people the way you want to be treated.
Listen; do not make assumptions about what a person can or cannot do.
speak directly to them, not through his or her companion.
Extend common courtesies to disabled people, as you would to anyone else
If you are having trouble understanding what he or she is saying, ask the person to repeat rather than pretend you understand
Offer assistance to a disabled person if you choose to, but wait until your offer is accepted before you help, and let them instruct you on how to help them.

24. Acts Associated with Disabilities
National Voter Registration Act
Individuals with Disability Education Act
Rehabilitation act
Architectural Barriers Act
Americans with Disability Act
Telecommunications Act
Air Carrier Access Act

25. Famous Individuals with Disabilities
Bruce Willis - Walter Bruce Willis (born March 19, 1955) is a German-born American actor and singer. Bruce Willis has had stuttering problems throughout his youth and was always scared it would affect his acting career.
Aristotle - (384 BC � 322 BC) Aristotle was a Greek philosopher writing on many different subjects including zoology, biology, ethics, government, politics, physics, metaphysics, music, poetry and theater.

26. Famous Individuals Cont’d
Charles Darwin Naturalist, author; OCD and stutter. Darwin's many lifelong and serious illnesses have been the subject of much speculation and study for over a century.
Michael J. Fox - (born Michael Andrew Fox on June 9, 1961) is a Canadian/American film and television actor. Fox was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1991

27. Famous Individuals Cont’d
DYSLEXIA:
Magic Johnson Tom Cruise Walt Disney Whoopi Goldberg Albert Einstein Sher
BLIND:
Ray Charles Stevie Wonder Helen Keller