People may be disabled by physical, intellectual or sensory impairment, medical conditions or mental illness. Such impairments, conditions or illnesses may be permanent or transitory in nature.
It is basically society and the physical environment what makes people handicapped. This is like a building were there is no doors on the ground floor and everybody must climb through the windows, risking their lives and feeling not welcome in this building. Thus, building a ramp for people with reduced mobility should be as natural as building a doors and stairs.
It is not the inability to walk which handicaps people, but the fact that there are steps because ramps into a building were simply forgotten or regarded as not important. This is the case when there are no enforced access policies to overcome these barriers.
Poor disabled people? For example, if he learns to use a walker, with braces, his level of disability will improve considerably. David's cerebral palsy is handicapping to the extent that it prevents him from fulfilling a normal role at home, in preschool, and in the community. His level of handicap has been only very mild in the early years as he has been well-supported to be able to play with other children, interact normally with family members and participate fully in family and community activities.
As he gets older, his handicap will increase where certain sports and physical activities are considered "normal" activities for children of the same age. He has little handicap in his preschool classroom, though he needs some assistance to move about the classroom and from one activity to another outside the classroom. Appropriate services and equipment can reduce the extent to which cerebral palsy prevents David from fulfilling a normal role in the home, school and community as he grows.
Cindy is an 8-year-old who has extreme difficulty with reading severe dyslexia. She has good vision and hearing and scores well on tests of intelligence. She went to an excellent preschool and several different special reading programs have been tried since early in kindergarten. While no brain injury or malformation has been identified, some impairment is presumed to exist in how Cindy's brain puts together visual and auditory information.
A handicap is an inability to accomplish something one might want to do, that most others around one are able to accomplish. For example, reading, walking, catching a ball, or communicating. The view of disability as a social construct holds that society assumes that everyone is a fully functioning, able-bodied person, which prevents the disabled from fully functioning in society, thereby creating disability.
When systems are designed thoughtfully to accommodate the needs, challenges and varying degrees of ability of different people in society, people with disabilities can fully participate in or use these systems.
One of the major goals of the disability rights movement is to raise awareness of how systems can and should be designed to serve all people, not just the majority of people who happen to have no significant impairments. For example, buildings and sidewalks that are designed to be wheelchair-accessible eliminate any handicap for people with physical disabilities whether permanent or temporary.
Closed captioning on TV lets people with hearing impairments to enjoy video programming. While physical disabilities are easy to identify and appreciate, mental disabilities require the same level of thought when designing systems.
Examples include sensory processing challenges that make it hard for some people to stay in very noisy environments or areas with flashing or fluorescent lights. Some kids may have attention, communication or cognitive challenges that can be mitigated by providing extra time for taking their tests.
These are all examples of ways in which systems can be designed to let people overcome their disability so it does not become a handicap. It is politically correct to say that a person has a disability and it's impolite to call someone handicapped. Share this comparison:.
If you read this far, you should follow us:. Handicapped individuals are considered as disabled people. They are the ones who lack and have a defective functioning of any body part. Their body functions the same as that of the other individual, but lacks the functioning of that particular part.
They refer to an individual who has some condition that markedly restricts their ability to function physically, mentally or socially. They are the ones who have some physical or mental disability, which may include both, the limited and the non-limited disabilities. The person who is handicapped has a limitation in the major life activities associated to that part. Majority of the physical disabilities which are highlighted in the societies are: handicapped by leg, hands, eyes, ears or mentally sick individuals.
There are various rights and rules associated and conducted by the respective governments, which are practiced all over the world in order to socially treat every handicap individual equally. These people are privileged with many courageous awards and concessions in the society, in order to encourage them.
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