Disability Awareness

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Disability Awareness

• Including ALL Youth in 4-H

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Images of Disability
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Images of Disability
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Images of Disability
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Images of Disability
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Core Principles

• Acceptance of human difference
• Tolerance
• Patience
• Ability to accept a lack of resolution

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Core Principles

• Our unified worldview, beliefs and values
  informed from an inside perspective of lived
  experiences and daily successes
• Seeing With
• Being aware on a daily basis

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Dimensions of Disability

• Everyone one of us is different
• By chance
• By choice
• Everybody reacts to differences
• Attract
• Surprise
• Frighten
• Some are not important to us

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We ALL Evaluate Differences

• First reactions are automatic reflexes wired into
  our brains
• What we do after our first reaction, however, is
  based on experience, learning and choices

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Attitudesare the REALDisability
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Attitudinal Barriers

• Inferiority
• Pity
• Hero worship
• Stereotypes
• Denial
• Fear

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Disability vs. Handicap

• Disability is the preferred term to describe
  physical, cognitive, and developmental
  limitations due to impairment.
• Handicap refers to external situations. The lack
  of a ram that creates an obstacle that results in
  limitation.

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FACTOIDThe term handicap originated from the
phrase hand-in-cap referring to people with
disabilities who begged for money on the street.
This was long before there were public programs
to offer assistance and support.
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Language IS important

• Use person first language
• one is a person before one is disabled
• A person with a disability.
• Avoid old stereotypes
• Avoid terms such as handicapped, cripple,
  afflicted, victim, special, invalid, suffers from

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More facts

• Only 15 of disabilities are present at birth
• 85 are acquired later
• 32 of the US population has a disability
• 1 in 8 children has a disability
• 51 are learning disabilities
• Over 12 million people have asthma, the leading
  cause of absenteeism at school work

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Some common types of disabilities

• Visual
• Hearing
• Learning
• Cognitive
• Non-visible
• Developmental

• Environmental
• Physical
• Systemic
• Psychiatric
• Multiple

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Non-visible disability

• Many disabilities are not visible
• Learning disabilitis make up the majority of new
  disability diagnoses
• Notable people with non-visible disabilities
  include Albert Einstein, Cher, Bruce Jenner,
  James Earl Jones

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Disability Etiquette
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Blindness Visual Impairment

• Identify yourself when you enter a room
• Offer your elbow when walking
• Dont treat service animals as pets
• Speak directly to the individual

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Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing

• Get the persons attention before speaking to
  him/her
• Ask what is the preferred method of communication
• Be creative when sharing detailed information
• Understand that not everybody reads lips

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Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing

• Ask to repeat if you do not understand
• Be sure that you get your point across
• Be aware of the environment
• Sign language is not universal. There are many
  regional sign languages.

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Learning Disabilities

• Learning disabilities are common
• A learning disability is a non-visible disability
• There is no connection between a persons
  intelligence and a learning disability
• A learning disability is in information
  processing, storage or retrieval difference

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Some common learning disabilities (LD) may cause

• Challenges with reading
• Challenges with writing
• Challenges with listening

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Physical Disabilities

• A physical disability may
• Include orthopedic, neuromuscular, cardiovascular
  and pulmonary disorders
• Be congenital or the result of injury or
  progressive disease
• People with disabilities often rely upon
  assistive devices

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Physical Disabilities

• Use common language
• Using words like running and walking are
  appropriate
• Avoid confining language
• Such as confined to a wheelchair or
  wheelchair-bound
• Instead use terms such as uses a wheelchair or
  wheelchair user
• A wheelchair in reality increases access and
  mobility

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Physical Disabilities

• Respect private property
• Avoid moving canes, crutches, walkers, etc.
  unless asked to do so
• Wheelchairs should be considered personal space
• Service animals should not be treated as pets

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Be respectful

• Public Disability Accommodations
• Parking spaces
• Curb cuts
• Special seating on buses or in theatres

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A few more guidelines

• Speak directly to the individual
• Treat disabled adults as you would any other
  adult
• Dont focus on the disability
• Speak with a normal tone of voice
• Offer to shake hands
• Dont exclude people with disabilities from
  activities

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If you are not sure, ask

• A person with a disability would much rather be
  asked questions about what the appropriate
  protocol is rather than be caught in an
  uncomfortable situation.

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It is okay if you make a mistake

• When a mistake is made, just apologize and
  correct the problem, learn from the mistake and
  move on. Sincerity is the key to a positive
  interaction with anyone.

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We are all human