EDP 256- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 16 pages long!)
6 Oct 2017
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MiamiOH
EDP 256
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Disability in Society
● Disability: no agreed upon definition: a condition or function judged to
be significantly impaired relative to the usual standard of an individual
or group. The term is used to refer to an individual functioning,
including physical, cognitive or sensory impairment or types of
chronic disease
○ Umbrella term covering impairments and activity limitations
○ Impairment: problem in the body function and structure
○ Activity limitation
○ 12.6% of non-institutionalized reported a disability in 2013(all
people)
○ 10% of the population in the US have an invisible disability
○ LARGEST MINORITY THAT ANYONE CAN JOIN AT ANY
TIME
● Media portrays people with disabilities in many ways
○ Disney movies: Captain Hook seen as a villain
○ People can be seen as a source of inspiration: overcoming the
odds
● I’m Not Your Inspiration(TED Talk)
○ Many people have only experienced disabled people for objects
of inspiration...there to inspire others, not really
○ To live with disability makes you exceptional, WRONG
○ Using disabled people as inspiration objectifies disabled people
to motivate able bodied people(my life may be bad but it could
be worse, I could be that disabled person)
○ More disabled by society, rather than their body or diagnoses
○ Disability is not the exception, it's the norm….that’s her ideal
world
○ Society has low expectations for disabled people and that
shouldn’t be the case
● What is Special Education?
○ The Individuals with Disabilities Act(IDEA) was designed to
support needs for students with disabilities. IDEA has been
instrumental in ensuring students with disabilities receive free
appropriate public education in the least restrictive environment
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○ A student with special needs will only receive services if found
eligible in any of the following areas:
■ Austism
■ Deaf-blindness
■ Learning disabilities
■ Speech or language impairment
■ Hearing impairment
■ Visual impairment
■ Intellectual disabilities
■ Health impairments
■ MANY OTHERS
● What is disabilities studies?
○ Academic side to the disability rights movement
○ Comprised of scholars that identify with disability
○ Looks at disabilities through different lenses...challenging
medical lense
○ Challenge that through a social lense saying that society
impairs them more than their disability
○ In the medical model: we make the person with the disability
change or adapt
○ Disabilities studies advocate for changes in society rather than
the person
● What is DSE?
○ Disability studies in education(DSE) and Special Education
■ VERY DIFFERENT!
■ Special education subscribes to the medical model of
changing/fixing the student
■ DSE promotes equity, accessibility to equal education
○ Advocates that students with disabilities have a civil right to be
with their non-disabled peers and provided with work that they
can do
■ INCLUSION!
○ All students deserve the same opportunities
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Document Summary
Disability: no agreed upon definition: a condition or function judged to be significantly impaired relative to the usual standard of an individual or group. The term is used to refer to an individual functioning, including physical, cognitive or sensory impairment or types of chronic disease. Umbrella term covering impairments and activity limitations. Impairment: problem in the body function and structure. 12. 6% of non-institutionalized reported a disability in 2013(all people) 10% of the population in the us have an invisible disability. Largest minority that anyone can join at any. Media portrays people with disabilities in many ways. Disney movies: captain hook seen as a villain. People can be seen as a source of inspiration: overcoming the odds. Many people have only experienced disabled people for objects of inspirationthere to inspire others, not really. To live with disability makes you exceptional, wrong.
