Ways of thinking about Disabilities

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One important aspect of the Deficit perspective is the common tendency to see someone different than us as someone less than us.  One example the typical learner and what or how people believe a typical learner based on a score from a normal curve or the bell-shaped curve.
     An important aspect of the Cultural perspective reflects the diversity of our nation.  What Americans believe to be a disability another culture may not embrace that concept and value and may not understand why their love one is being found as having any type of disability at all.
 An important of the sociological perspective is that people attitudes, and the way society treats people because they are a different type of person such as one with a mental disorder. We are seeing more and more people with mental illness and need to teach the world how to live and socialize with others that are not us.  
 An important aspect of People with disabilities as members of a minority group is the fact that they tend to receive negative treatment based on discrimination.  This belief affects mostly the African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, and Asian/Pacific Islanders being denied full participation in society because of their minority status.

Ways of Thinking About Disability There are four perspectives of ways to think about disabilities.

The Deficit Perspective on Disabilities
Classify or divide characteristics, behavior, and academic achievement by using curves for example.  The way the distribution brings a negative impact because evaluates how different or far they are from the “average level” making them less instead of finding a way for making them closer.
The Culture Perspective on Disabilities
Depending on the Cultures disability can be seen in different ways because of their experiences and beliefs. When it is time to classify a disability the perspective of other people can be different since disabilities do not have only one characteristic. As educators and professionals we have to be educated or self of cultural perspective, because when we talk to families depending on their point of view , they can react in different ways and not necessarily they will agree but understand how they see everything different from others.
The Sociological Perspective on Disabilities
How they treat and see each other as individuals, the skills and traits is a key when it comes to sociological perspective on disability. As well society see people with disability as Members of a Minority Group like ethnicity and race there for it leads to discrimination.  It could be nice that society could be educated and change the way people view people with disabilities, because I know by seeing them less and not giving them the services they need it will make it worse. We need to be more educated in order to change the perspective and influence others in a positive way.

The cultural perspective does not use a quantitative approach and it reflects the diversity. The cultural perspective holds different perspectives and individualized responses to a disability. This way of thinking makes us understand that disability does not have a single orientation or fixed definition.

The sociological perspective focuses on people’s attitude and how society treats the people. This perspective carries either positive or negative connotations because some people think that what makes a disability is the way the society treats individuals, or some people think that the disabilities significantly affect the people no matter how they are treated. But any way, the sociological perspective can be used to explain disabilities and how they suffer from bias and discrimination.

In the perspective of People with Disabilities as Members of a Minority Group, people with disabilities belong to a minority group because they all are human and should not be excluded from a society. According to the UN fact sheet on persons with disabilities, there are 650 million people living with a disability which represents 10 percent of the world population and the world’s largest minority group. That’s why this perspective impacts the way in which people are treated by society and by other individuals, and protected by the law.

Not all cultures have the same vision or way of thinking about their children's disabilities. Many of these people do not have the same knowledge or practice of understanding what causes the disability that their child has.

Societies tend to treat people with disabilities differently because of their conditions or disability. People need to stop looking them different. It is not because a person has a disability that people have the right to undervalue them.
 

People with disabilities receive adverse treatments because of discrimination and are denied full participation in society due to their minority status. We need to make conscience and start seeing each other equally. People with disabilities need to receive the same treatment and respect as other people without disabilities. For all of these reasons, people with disabilities tend to create a barrier in their lives and start feeling less and discriminating. 
As human beings, we must understand that a disability is not a reason to be rejected. Let's think about our children or relatives as you would like them to be treated. As educators, we can make a difference by educating our students on the value and respect that people deserve to be received regardless of their disabilities.

 

 One important aspect of deficient disability is that we think everyone should fit in the same category. We normalize our behaviors and characteristics, but we end up judging the disable people instead. Sometimes even excluding them from certain activities due to their disabilities. 
 Sociological perspective on disabilities has to do with how our society has been viewing and treating disable people. They would have misconception about how disable people can’t do this and that. However, disable people are human too. They are capable of doing certain things. 
 Minority on disabilities. Lots of people who are minorities in America came from other countries. For some of them, English is not their native language. Therefore, it creates a language barrier. They were denied certain rights and resources because of how they look. Minority people were also being judged based on their race, religion, and their upbringing.  
 The cultural perspective on disabilities has to do with the way we were raised and influenced by our environment. Every culture has their own set of values and beliefs on what disabilities are. Their way of viewing and interpreting disabilities is different from us, since majority of them were not given proper education on what a disability is.
 I think if we were giving proper training and courses on disabilities. Our mindset and viewpoint will be totally different from what they are now.