In my opinion, the crimes against people with disabilities show that the accused may perceive disability as an advantage and easy targets such as people with non-verbal, developmental delays or physical disabilities are not capable of defending themselves or may not file a complaint against accused.  According to the course content, the role perception of being burden of charity or subhuman organism can be seen where people with disabilities are victimized in their own home by their spouses or partners.  

I can relate this article to the course material where we learn about physical, emotional, and environmental barriers. We had Theoretical application activity #1 in the course in order to recognize barriers around us.

I found this article interesting as I learned that why it is important to provide customer-facing roles in terms of promoting inclusion. However, I found errors in using first person language, for instance, the disabled Canadians, disabled respondents, disabled community, and disabled workers instead of using the person first language in this article according to the course material. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOmtAJkzZbk

This is a Ted Talk from Adam Pearson on removing the stigma of disability, Adam Pearson discuses the ignorance of the social viewing on disability and talks about how it is mainly based on the lack of publicity it gets, as he states that it is hardly ever discussed and a majority if not all role models don't have disabilities. Adam Pearson then talks about how some of the discrepancies within the laws that affect those with disabilities, discussing the difference between workplace laws on religion and then comparing them to disabilities. He finally discusses how his experience from getting an email from a freak show sparked the idea of touring and doing a documentary about freak shows across the world and how disabilities play a huge role within that market.

Adam Pearson discusses many things and challenges many ideologies, this relates back to course material in the way that we need to look at disabilities in a different way than society may dictate.

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This is Jennifer Sommerness talk about how we are segregating our students and that instead of segregation we should focus on creating relationships within our community, as this leads to creating a new norm where we think and act within strength based ways as this focuses on the individuals strengths allowing them to succeed within not only their education but also their life. She shows this with her student Cooper, Cooper is mainly non verbal and was brought up through contained classes, however when transferred over to mainstream Cooper has been able to blossom into a more rounded and educated students expanding upon his education and social understanding through his interactions with peers.

This relates back to our material as the found the barrier to Coopers education was that he was being isolated and by removing that isolation and putting him in a better learning environment Cooper was able to thrive.

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This is a talks at Google by Chris Ulmer, Chris is an author of the book "special books by special kids". Chris talks about his transition from a special education teacher to running his non profit organisation, his goal within both of his careers was to expand everyone's sense of normalcy.Chris talks about the videos he would make within his classroom where he would record interactions between him and his students he would then post these videos on YouTube , as he made the transfer over from his teaching career to running his non profit organisation he used his following to help him travel and meet people with special needs all around the world where he would then record his interactions with them, giving those with special needs a platform that they can talk and share their feelings with Chris.

Chris Ulmer relates back to our course content by truly striving to understand those with special needs and giving them an environment where everyone is accepting and they can be themselves in.

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This Ted Talk from Malheiros Scalise. She discusses how the world should be a more open and accepting place not just hose with special needs but everyone, saying that within the world if we all help each other we will all grow ourselves. As she explains that we all need to be more accepting she also touches upon how technologies have helped those with special needs and how it has improved the quality of life of so many, Sophia as a young girl wanted to help support this cause of making technology however new that she could not make the technology herself so she would help support it in any way she could such as collecting the pull-tab at the top of sodas and sending it to companies to be melted down and create wheel chairs showing that enough small actions can make a difference in someones life. 


This Ted Talk relates to our course material in many ways, it relates back to our first application activity by learning and understanding the barriers around us and also relates to some material from module 2 on the social model of disability.

This Ted Talk from Gabi Telemaco, first discusses and asks us to questions what we know about special education classrooms. Gabi does this by asking us to imagine a mainstream classroom and then imagine a special education classroom, she then compares the two and comes to the realization that they are not all that different. After talking about and comparing the classrooms she then talks about a program within her school called peer connections, this is a program that brings fully able students into classrooms that a majority of the students have special needs. Gabi finalizes the Ted Talk by talking about how difficult it is for the teacher  to teach a classroom with such varied levels of of ability and disability.

  This information within this Ted Talk can relate to our course material through the Theoretical application activity 1, as she discuses the environmental barriers that her mentor partner went through within the classroom.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ak095i68HA

This video is Jon Watson doing a TED talks about his students with special needs. Throughout the Ted talk Jon describes his students as the most "Real" students within the school, everything they do is honest and has no malice behind it everything they do has a reason behind it. Jon Watson's goal behind the Ted talk was to let people know that if someone with special needs comes into your life or your space its ok, don't be afraid he just wants people to accept those students who may have special needs and to promote students with special needs working in the mainstream system.

This Ted talk relates to our course content through Module 3. Within module three we identify how to change one's and society's attitude, this is the goal that Jon Watson's wishes to achieve to achieve the stereotypes that people and society has created and placed upon students with special needs.

The exclusion which imitates as discrimination seems heartbreaking attitude to me as parents have no choice open for their child with the disability.  

I find errors in using the correct terminology in the news such as disabled employees and disabled people. The person first language should have been used in the news. 

I find this news interesting and found an inspiring quote from Wright that “I would not change you for the world, but I will change the world for you”. This also refers to remove the physical and emotional barriers for people with disabilities. However, the first person language is not been used in several sentences such as intellectually and developmentally disabled people and disabled people.   

 

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This is a video that follows Ruby throughout her day, within this video we follow Ruby through her daily life and see what she experiences through a typical day. Ruby has Stromme syndrome and is 1 of 12 cases known around the world. The day of Ruby shows her and her social interactions with her peers and best friend Avery, it shows how the interactions with mainstream students build up her social skills and allows has tought her how to communicate her needs and wants better, this is shown when they are interviewing Ruby and she says all she wants is for people to sit with her she then goes on to share how Avery is her best friend because she sits with her and stays by her side. Through out the Day walk through the videos takes time to interview some of the staff that works with her and her mother, within the quick little interviews you get a better insight on some of the other activities that Ruby may do that has helped her grow. What I found most interesting about this video was how happy Ruby was by just having a friend sitting with her, this made me stop and think about all the small thing in my life that i should be grateful for.

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This is a Ted Talk where Madhavi Adimulam discusses her and her child experience within the educational system and how it don't not have what her son needed, forcing her to travel abroad in order for her son to get a proper education. Madhavi then moved back home to India where she found that the educational system was still no able to giver her son what he needed, so she decided to create Ananya learning Centre, this is a learning center for children with special needs or children who learn differently, every child within the centre gets a program that is specifically made for them and focuses on the ways they learn. She then focuses on her sons life after school, this was to find out how can he use what he learned and transition that into a job.

I found this Ted Talk very interesting as I was able to get a different perspective on this scenario as it was from a mother and a teacher, this allows for a very carrying and loving outlook on the situation.

There was a massacre in japan where the target were people with disabilities.

When i found this article i was horrified to find that many people were killed. The people who were killed and injured went unnoticed in japan. The main reason i think is because in the article it tells that segrating people in japan is quite common espcall for people who have a disability. This i think caused them to not reach the news because of the long history of stigma toward people with a disability. The problem it may be a long road since this kind of stigma is routed in history so change may be very slow.

I do like the article but where are a few problems it has even though it talks about some of the challenges stephen hawking has faced it talked about what if’s. Even though the article tries to be inspirationalinal often times they will not use first person language when referring to someone and many times focus on their disability instead of the epron themselves.

I liked this article because even though he had a injury it doesn't mean he can not live a meaningful life and according to him the injury actually gave him the opportunity to become a professional snowboarder and compete in the Paralympics.

What surprised me most of this article is that i never really thought about the siblings of the child specifically and not just the family as a whole. Many people do not realize that the sibling may not be getting as much attention as they would need. This can cause some problems between the child with the exceptionality and the sibling the sibling might start to resent and that many parents will often force the older sister into the caregiver without realizing that its causing more problems.

This happens quite often i assumed because many employers are afraid that the job might be to hard for them or there are simply not up for the task. I am worried because if this stigma there are many people that could have been easily be employed but because of it the unemployment rate is much higher.

 

Even though the video displayed some challenges that someone with a disability might face while traveling by air. They never used first person language and many times the people were identified by their disability not who they are. An example of this is “problems disabled face when they fly”

This one is one of the few where they use first person language and the person in the video is not being identified by their disability and actually focus on the person themselves like for example what their personality what makes a person. The message they are focusing on is that you should treat everyone with how you would Normally treat another person as an equal and not segregate from other people or ignore them. 

I am somewhat concerned about what this article is talking about because I know in the past that they did this. The article does a good job in portraying the people that may be running into problems with care and it really shows that every person is unique especially with there needs. The only problem this article in my opinion seems to suffer is using first person language but after looking though a few articles this seems to be a common occurrence in most media