Carla Qualtrough, Minister of Sport and Persons with Disabilities she is working on Canadians with Disabilities Act its plan is to make Canada more accessible and with hope to remove barriers in the work force.  Carla Qualtrough also hopes to put in place an accessibility commissioner who would make sure that the new law is being put into place. It says the new act should use the laws from our current legislation but it should improve it so that it overcomes more barriers. Michelle McQuigge, (Feb 06, 2017)

 

          What I found interesting about this article is when it talked about the unemployment rate for people with disabilities, which is 49-79 per cent (Michelle McQuigge, Feb 06, 2017). It went on to say how this new Canadians with Disabilities Act would remove barriers and increase the job opportunities for people disabilities to get employment.

Michelle McQuigge, (Feb 06, 2017) The Canadian Press. Government looking for ways to improve job prospects for disabled Canadians, minister says. Retrieved fromhttp://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/disabilities-employment-legislation-1.3968555
Danielle Warren

           I really felt this was a great article to get people to start thinking differently about disability and how it isn’t something to assume things about or stare at. In the article they talk about assumptions and how woman were not given the right to vote because someone assumed they were uneducated and couldn’t make their own opinions how the time has passed and now everyday we are putting assumptions about disabilities behind us. 

 

I like that we have made something that usually has so many barriers for people with disabilities into somewhere that they are made the priority this in hopes will make traveling when you have a disability easier. It also talks about making businesses more assessable this will happen with hopes of business owners see that they are missing revenue because they cannot adapt to customers needs. International Airport Review. (February 21, 2017) New role unveiled in the UK to champion disability issues in airports. Retrieved from: https://www.internationalairportreview.com/news/32399/michael-connolly-disabled-people-airports/
Danielle Warren

Fitness is not only for fittest, there is a way to integrate fitness into anyone’s life. Now we have to clarify what we know about inclusion in fitness, and what we don’t know.  Define the goals to work on and move forward. Personally, I am very proud to be part of it!

Rod MacDonald. (March/April 2017, p.8). CanFitPro magazine. Inclusivity Matters.

· One thing most people know about being disabled is that they don’t want to be that;

· Most of the people don’t know how to live with disability: request accommodations, access the services, enter the communities and use the law.  People start learning about the disability when they are faced with such a situation in their family; 

· Statistically every 5th person in North America is disabled in one or another way.

· When person is learning how to be disabled, is not the body being transformed but the consciousness.

The author says that for PWD is harder to be included socially than physically.  Many people do not understand that we all will experience of being disabled one way or another, so making life of people who were born with disability more accessible, benefit many people along their life.

The New York Times. (19.08.2016). Being Disabled. Rosemarie Garland-Thomson. Retrieved from:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/opinion/sunday/becoming-disabled.html 

· It is a cost-effective model. These clinics use already existing resources like vacant class-rooms. A local health agencies provide these clinics with medical equipment and supplies.

· Refugees and newcomers do not have medical insurance.  Their children don’t have opportunity to be seen by doctors.  Many of those children have undiagnosed disabilities. 

· “By bringing health and education together under one roof, the in-school health clinics not only remove many accessibility barriers faced by these marginalized students, but also afford them more timely, comprehensive, and socially/culturally sensitive health care than they could normally access through regular channels”.

I think opening of those clinics is a great example for other school boards which might have same issues.  Family should wait at least 8 months before they can address the family doctor.  Early Identification of disabilities could benefit children’ academic and social achievement.  Appropriate educational modifications can be done within the same academic year.  Opening of those clinics has helped already a great number of children.  Some of the students and parents who have shared their experience told that it positively effects many families. One Canadian newcomer shared her story: “I am treating [my son] differently now. I am controlling my anger. I am talking to him more. I am praising him more. So, I did see changes at home when I started to act differently, after I got to know what’s going on with him and that he has ADHD.”

Spring 2017, Vol 57, Issue 1. http://www.cea-ace.ca/education-canada/article/school-health-clinics

Four Freedoms Park in Roosevelt Island has issues of accessibility, especially the viewing area at the southernmost tip, which cannot be reached in a wheelchair. Credit Chang W. Lee/The New York Times

I wondered how is a city honoring someone like president Franklin D. Roosevelt, who used a wheelchair for years and not grant an access for disabled people. There are complaints filled  in federal court Manhattan calling it “systemic, discriminatory exclusion for people with disabilities.

Rosenberg, E. (2017, March 16).Park Honoring Franklin Roosevelt Excludes Disabled People, Suit Says. The New York Times. Retrieved from 

nytimes.com

At the 2016 world fitness expo, CanFitPro announced canfitpro’s commitment as the first Canadian company to sign “Marseille Declaration” to demonstrate support of inclusivity in fitness.  This declaration was the work of UFIT organisation whose mission is to help make the fitness industry program inclusive across the globe.  There are several courses which create awareness of working with PWD, but there are no programs which create “a cultural change in the approach to overall management, marketing, programming, training and other aspects of running a health club” (p.44).  Behind UFIT is the UNESCO Chair in Inclusive Fitness, Sport and Recreation.  Many of the countries support UFIT at the Government level. The main goal of UFIT is making existing services and facilities more inclusive by maximizing existing resources without capital investments.  

I am ready for inclusion in Fitness and eager to apply my knowledge as fitness professional, educator and a parent.  As a canfitpro member I would like to promote these programs in my work place.  Can’t wait to see who will be the first Fitness organization to implement those changes.
March/April 201, pp.44-46. CanFitPro magazine. 

In this article, several readers with disabilities discuss the issue of being labeled as “disabled people”.  All of them don’t consider themselves as victims in their road of life.  They responded to essay by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, “Becoming Disabled”, by showing their positive life’s attitude.   Social Media opened the way for PWD to be connected. Thus, they can share their experiences and support each other. Technology made their life easier and socially connected.  Even though those readers have certain difficulties to live with, they don’t want to became somebody else.  They are comfortable to be who they are. 

Reading this article, I feel that even though all of these people have different medical conditions and difficulties to face to and overcome, their statements are very positive.  I think that it is really great that people can hear the voices and opinions of PWD to better understand the issues they experience in their life.  They are happy and self-sufficient. As one of talented and wise orthopedic surgeon said: “We are all just temporarily able-bodied.” Life doesn’t stop with disability.

The New York Times. (27.08.2016). Living with Disability.

People with Disabilities

This website is provide information for people with disabilities about their health living, safety, independent living, transition within the community. 

Its provide valuable information about healthy living, safety topics touch to violence, bullying and children and youth with disabilities and special health. And injury prevention, emergency preparedness

Other topics such as Assistive technology helping and help in their independence. School and arrangement for known as 504 plans. Also, transitions for all stages. Although, independent living for disabilities people and where finding support. 

March 17, 2016.

CDC. (2016). People with Disabilities. Retrieved from

https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/disabilityandhealth/people.html

A witness shot cell phone video of the aftermath of the arrest, which shows Abdi lying motionless and handcuffed on the ground. Blood is smeared all over his shirt.

Our community were shocked when we learned that MR. Abdi was beaten to death because he was nonverbal and had autism spectrum. 

“The agency probing the arrest, Special Investigations Unit, says that police responded at 9:30 a.m. Sunday to reports that a man was allegedly groping people at a coffee shop in downtown Ottawa”, CBC reported.

Witnesses say they saw police chasing Abdi, who family says is nonverbal and on the autism spectrum. When he didn’t comply, cops tackled him and began beating him.

Hensley, N. (2016, July 26). Mentally disabled Somali-Canadian dies after violent confrontation with police; bloody aftermath caught on video.NYDailyNews. Retrieved from:

The 2016 Paralympics in Rio involves 22 sports but not all disability categories can compete in each event.

It is amazing event, showed 22 kind of sports. From Archery, athletics, Boccia, Canoeing, Cycling, Equestrian, Judo, Powerlifting, Rowing, Sailing, Shooting, Sitting Volleyball, swimming, table ball, wheelchair fencing, Wheelchair Rugby, Wheelchair tennis and more

BBC (2016, September 05). Rio Paralympics 2016: An A-Z of Paralympic sport classifications. SPORT Disability Sport. Retrieved 

 

http://www.bbc.com/sport/disability-sport/18934366

 

This cartoon represents a huge stereotype people with disabilities face its most common with physical, mental illness, and learning disabilities that people assume its because they are lazy. When someone uses a wheelchair maybe not all the time but he or she have some mobility on a good day when they don’t need as much assistance people judge them and think they are lazy. It’s a huge stigma for people with learning disabilities that they don’t need more time on an assignment they just need to stop being lazy and get the work done. They are told over and over to just stop being lazy that they start to believe it.

Sean Mclean. (3/5/12) Learning disabilities. Image retrieved from http://keywordsuggest.org/gallery/804177.html  
Danielle Warren 

Existing sex-educational programmes were found ineffective for people with intellectual disabilities.  In this research assessment was done in several sexuality-related topics.  Interviews were held with 20 persons with intellectual disabilities on the topics: sex, relationships, parenthood, social media. They determined that educational level is low.  The knowledge is limited by contraception and safe sex, which is not connecting in their mind to reality, so people actually don’t use this knowledge in life.  It is hard for them to apply the theory (ex.: safe sex) with practice (sex behavior).  Research shows that there is a need of high quality sex education for people with ID.

In my opinion sexual education is very important for everyone.  Reading these assessment papers, I found that many of interviewed people with intellectual disabilities have had negative sexual experience and sexual abuse in their life.  One of them was continuously abused at boarding school.  Staff and police did nothing about it.  The goal of this assessment was to identify the weaknesses in existing programmes.  The new sexual education programmes should not only include safe sex and contraception topics, but also parenthood, online relationships and social media.  To be effective, these programmes should use a theory and evidence-based protocols.

December, 2016

“Continued child support” case trials in Brampton court, Ontario, this week.  The case involves a single mother.  She claims that “Ontario’s child support law discriminates against disabled children of unmarried parents”, as Robyn Coates has said.  If a couple is divorced, a disabled child is eligible for support into adulthood.  But if parents were never married, support ends when a child is 18.  Ontario’s Family Law Act, which covers child support for unmarried parents, makes no provision for adult disabled children.  “If children of divorced parents can claim support for both education and disability beyond age 18, then children born to parents who were never married should enjoy the same rights,” Coates said.

I think it will be beneficial for single parents of CWD if the claimant in this case succeeds.  Not only single parents will gain support, but also same sex-marriage parents, who didn’t have legal right for marriage till 2003.  People don’t realize that parents are on their own to pay the bills if their disabled adult child is unable to work.  Regularly, other parent not living with the child \stops financial support of adult children since they turn 18.

 

I think that its important for fines to increase for the abuse of accessible parking spaces because it isn’t a luxury or a benefit for people with disabilities get it is a necessity. If we have a higher fine people will be less likely to take a spot that someone actually needs or cant go to a store without that disabled parking spot.  

 Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon. (Mar 06, 2017) CBC News. Fines for accessible parking space abuse should increase, group says. Retrieved from,https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=newssearch&cd=5&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjfuo2r8cLSAhVL_4MKHXGLA4YQqQIIKigAMAQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbc.ca%2Fnews%2Fcanada%2Fnew-brunswick%2Faccessible-parking-fine-saint-john-ability-nb-1.4011715&usg=AFQjCNFRdfIwIF6N3-wtjiGC64BhXE_bGdQ&sig2=rWK8npEHKFg337B0CI76-A&bvm=bv.148747831,d.amc
Danielle Warren

 

 

 

            I think this is an important way to have students who age out of the system have a place where they can go and be themselves and how they bring in the community to support them and not judge them or make assumptions about what they are capable of. I think its awesome how they have changed the traditional way of performing to make it fit their needs and make the show more interactive.  

 

Solomon Israel. (Feb 16, 2017) CBC News. Young adults with disabilities bring Shakespearean dream to life. Retrieved from http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/young-adults-disabilities-shakespeare-jcc-1.3985201

 Danielle Warren

 

I think this is an important article because people with disabilities especially invisible disabilities are judged and their disability is scrutinized to if they really should be competing in a different category. Anther common topic that this article made me think about is people like to bring up ‘cures’ for different disabilities like Autism, learning disabilities, mental illness, and anything else someone has heard about a cure for. I think this article covered the way society looks at people with disabilities in the Paralympics and also their understanding to what Paralympic is. 

 

Paniz Khosroshahy. (February 6, 2017) The McGill Daily. On the ‘right’ way to be disabled. Retrieved from http://www.mcgilldaily.com/2017/02/on-the-right-way-to-be-disabled/
Danielle Warren

 

I really love their comic they are funny and true to what these girls have had to deal with and it makes the audience laugh with them and find the same humor without it being mean or insensitive.   

   

 Danielle Warren

 

This article from BBC talks about the discrimination persists against people with mental disabilities. Previous US president Barack Obama was announced in March about the opioid epidemic during his speech. A presidential task force a serious recommendation to rise 9.3$ million in funding for helping an improving health assistance for mental disabilities.

 

  

Gold, J. (2016, October 31) PBS NEWSHOUR. Discrimination persists against patients with mental illness and addiction, panel says Retrieved from:

 

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/discrimination-persists-patients-mental-illness-addiction-panel-says/

Ontario Human Rights Commission, OHRC

I found this government website related to Ontario Human Rights Code, which protects the dignity and equal rights and opportunities, also freedom from discrimination. As all those codes applies to all the area of employment such as facilities, services, housing and goods. The code also conduct of arrange some accommodations for people with mental disabilities.

Name of Government Agency. (Year of Publication, Month Day). Title of document: subtitle if given. (edition if stated and only if it is not first edition). Retrieved Month Day, Year you viewed, from URL

OHRC. (2016) Disability and human rights (brochure 2016). Retrieved March 26, 2017.from: 

Wheelchair pushers to help the person with disabilities and elderly perform their pilgrimage. Pushers take pilgrims on laps around the Kaaba and religious places in Mecca, Suadi Arabia. 

 

Berenstein, E and Hadid, D. (2016, September 14) TimeVideo. [Postcards from the Hajj: Pray on Wheels]. Retrieved from:

 https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/middleeast/100000004645504/postcards-from-the-hajj-pray-on-wheels.html

I found this article about Kessler Foundation and University of New Hampshire release a report related employment gains for American with disabilities. It’s increased by 7.9% from Dec 2015 to Dec 2016. Although, the labor force participation rate for working age people with disabilities increased from 30.1 in December 2015 to 31.7 percent in December 2016. Which means (up 5.5 percent; 1.6 percent points) its a little increased which consider a good approach for working people with disabilities. 

Reference:

Brenna-Curry, A. (2017).nTIDE Jobs Report: Record Gains in Employment for People with Disabilities, (January issue). Retrieved from: 

This article from BBC talks about the discrimination persists against people with mental disabilities. Previous US president Barack Obama was announced in March about the opioid epidemic during his speech. A presidential task force a serious recommendation to rise 9.3$ million in funding for helping an improving health assistance for mental disabilities.

 
Gold, J. (2016, October 31) PBS NEWSHOUR. Discrimination persists against patients with mental illness and addiction, panel says Retrieved from:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/discrimination-persists-patients-mental-illness-addiction-panel-says/