MIDTERM Flashcards
- not really the best set of cue cards but at least its something
What are some ways the media portrays PWD?
- “poster child” (usually cute and little)
- “super crip” (overcome limitations through extraordinary features)
- “cripsploitation” (taking advantage)
What are the disadvantages of the media portraying images if PWD?
- does not allow for interaction or understanding
- automatically underestimates PWD
What is ableism?
- discrimination or prejudice against individuals with disabilities
How are PWD portrayed in entertainment?
- often portrayed as a comedian (laugh at, laugh with)
- disability is almost always visual
10 common stereotypes of PWD
- to be pitied
- victims
- sinister or evil
- exotic, curious
- triumph over tragedy
- laughable entertainment
- resentfully and hostile
- burden to others
- non-sexual
- cannot participate in everyday life
What does it mean to categorize?
- we categorize to identify one’s philosophy
- understand terms, how we can approach service delivery
3 Models
- Deficit or medical model
- Social minority or disability rights model
- ecological model
What are some aspects of the deficit/medical model?
- federal law dictated that students had to meet certain diagnostic criteria to specific disability categories in order to receive special education services
- categorizes disability: intellectual and learning
What are some aspects of the social minority / disability rights model?
- more recent and still evolving
- does not group disabilities into categories
- focuses on the individual
What are some aspects of the ecological model / individual difference model?
- emphasizes that difference is the product of interactions between persons and their social and physical environments
- persons with and without disabilities
How does the deficit/medical/categorial model view disability?
- inferior
How does the social minority/disability rights model view disability?
- equated with being different, not less than
- environment should be set up for their needs
How does the ecological model view disability?
- equated with being different and with person-environment interactions that cause differences
- environment can impede or enable functioning
What are the identity perceptions of the deficit/medical/categorial model?
- individuals have common anomalies and deficits that are viewed as personal tragedy
What connotation is associated with the deficit/medical/categorial model?
- negative
- views PWD as problems
What is the service delivery and its purpose of the deficit/medical/categorial model?
- give advice, prescription or remediation
- is a treatment based on deficits, problems, or characteristics
What are some symbols associated with the deficit/medical/categorial model?
- handicap symbol
- passive
What are the identity perceptions of the minority/disability rights model?
- individuals have one commonality (social stigma created around differences)
What connotation is associated with the minority/disability rights model?
- person-first
- positive or neutral
What are some symbols associated with the minority/disability rights model?
- active
What is the service delivery and its purpose of the minority/disability rights model?
- based on individual assessment and personal strengths and weaknesses
- to empower the individual to assume active role in self-actualization
What are the identity perceptions of the ecological model?
- persons have some common barriers and enablers (barriers must be eliminated)
What connotation is associated with the ecological model?
- person-first
- environmental variables emphasized
What is the service delivery and its purpose of the ecological model?
- assessment encompasses individuals and their ecosystems
- goals focus on barriers and enablers
- empower individual to assume active role in self-actualization
What are some symbols associated with the ecological model?
- active
Why is empowerment so important?
- it is an interactional process where everyone can acquire the vision, motivation, resources, and power to strive towards being the best they can be (self-actualization)
What is the process of devaluation?
- perpetuates segregation - can be positive
- serves a profession purpose (supports and services)
What are the steps in the cycle of devaluation? (9)
- ) person has impairment (viewed negatively by society - support required)
- ) to get support, person is given a label
- ) person is segregated from services
- ) isolated from community
- ) person interacts with others who are also labeled - which accentuates differences
- ) feelings of powerlessness
- ) lowered expectations
- ) few opportunities
- ) further impairment and social handicap
What is impairment?
- any loss or abnormality of psychological, physiological, or anatomical structure or function
- may result from a disease, accident, genetic or other environmental agents
What is disability?
- any restriction or lack of ability to perform an activity in the manner or range considered “normal”
What does handicap mean?
- a disadvantage for a given individual that limits or prevents the fulfillment of a role that is normal for that individual
What is ICF?
- international classification of functioning, disability, and health
- classification of health and health related domains
What is function and structure?
- physiological functions of the body systems
- anatomical parts of the body such as organs, limbs, and their components
- deviation in body structure
- can be temporary, permanent, progressive, regressive, or static
What is function and structure formerly known as?
- disease and impairment
What is the definition of activity?
- execution of a task or action
What is the definition of participation?
- involvement in a life situation
What does activity limitations mean?
- difficulties an individual may have in executing activities
What are participation restrictions?
- problems an individual may experience in involvement in life situations
What was environmental factors formerly recognized as?
- handicap
How is an individual viewed from a societal/environmental perspective?
- focuses on the individuals immediate environment (home, workplace, school)
What are sources that are available from a societal/environmental stand point?
- focuses and services and approaches/systems in the community or society (transportation, policies, attitudes, government agencies)
- exterior from individual
Is each disability the same?
- FUCK NO
- Each disability comes in differing degrees or severity
How can we change the perception of disability?
- change the connotation - think of them in a new light
- acknowledge that everyone can experience a decline in health and thereby experience some degree of disability
- “mainstream” the experience of disability
- recognize it as a universal human experience
- consider environmental factors and how the environment affects the persons functioning
How can we make disabilities “no long exist”?
- activities must be changes and adapted so that limitations are minimized or eliminated
How is ICF used?
- health and disability reporting (measure health status of countries)
- social policy (anti-discrimination law)
- clinical and epidemiological use (outcome measurement, treatment planning)
- research (impact, intention, application)
A disability can either be….
how did they get it
- congenital (present from birth)
- acquired (developed)
How has ICF changed the perception of disability?
- more positive and realistic point of view
- look at “how can we change the perception of disability”
What is the strengths perspective?
- an alternative to the dominant medical model perspective, focusing on an individuals strengths
How does the strengths perspective demand a new way of looking at individuals and communities?
- all must be seen ins the light of their capacities, talents, competencies, possibilities, visions, values, and hopes
- composing a roster of resources within and around the individual
What does the strengths perspective focus on?
- it puts a line of focus on “what people want their lives to be like, and what resources and strength they have or need to get there”
What are strengths?
- capacities, assets, and resources
- personal qualities, traits, and virtues
- knowledge
- talents
How do you discover strengths?
- look into interests, talents and competences
- go beyond standard assessment protocol……listen!
What are some questions to consider for assessment?
- survival, support, exceptions, possibility, esteem, perspective, meaning
What is a key idea of the strengths perspective?
- HOPE!
- tapping into visions and dreams
- belief in the possible
What are important aspects of the strengths perspective?
- opportunities for choice, commitment, and action
- service providers (social workers, therapists, program, coordinators, companions)
What are some resources?
- friends, family, coaches, teachers, pets, computers, cellphones, technology
What are the principles of the strength perspective?
- recognizing that trauma, abuse, illness, and struggle may be a source of challenge and opportunity (positive growth resilience)
- take aspirations seriously
- we best serve client collaborating with them
- SP is about the revolutionary possibility of hope
How did adapted physical activity evolve?
- shifting through paradigms
What is a paradigm?
- the generally accepted perspective of a particular topic or discipline at a given time - a set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitute a way of viewing reality
- an accepted way of thinking that results in action
What are the beliefs associated with the facility based paradigm?
- believed that people with disabilities were a menace, should be isolated from the general public
- had very different needs from the typical population
When was the facility based paradigm in full effect?
- prominent in the early 1900, and late 19th century
What was the effect and results of the facility based way of thinking?
- institutions
- residential programs
- special schools
- corrective therapy as only opportunity for physical activity
- education based on labels rather than needs
- NO treatment
Why did the service based approach come into effect?
- public outcry due to lack of support for veterans returning from WWII
- research revealed the capabilities and potential growth of those thought to be “educable”
When did the service based approach come into effect?
- 1950s and 60s
What was the thought that sprung the service based approach into effect?
- a belief that appropriate programming and skill development would lead to integration
What were the actions and results of the service based paradigm?
- special classes, resource rooms, sheltered workshops
- mainstreaming
- physical activity opportunities were about assistance, not correcting and ignoring
- a great move toward DEINSTITUTIONALIZATION
What is an institute?
- a facility or establishment in which people live and receive care typically in a confined setting and often without individual consent
When did the supports based paradigm come into effect?
- 1970s - 21st century
What is the importance of individualized physical activity plans?
- focuses on lifetime skill development
What are individualized physical activity plans? (definition)
- the science of analyzing movement, identifying problems in the psychomotor domain and developing instructional strategies for remediating problems and preserving ego strength
What does the supports based approach require implementation of?
- teaching assistants/aides, peer supports, use of computers and individualized physical activity plans
What is a difficulty of the supports based paradigm that we still face?
- we are very quick to fundraise for resources, but its tough to get funding needed to get human supports
The supports based approach had good intentions however…
- there was no move away from isolated residential and vocational programs
- programming seemed to be inefficient
- made use of natural, human, or technical supports to assist with inclusion
What is inclusion?
- a philosophy that everyone belongs, contributes and develops
What is empowerment?
- self-determination is personal power
- living as independently as possible, making decisions, assuming responsibility, taking risks
How can becoming empowered require assistance?
- empowerment is an individual process by which one secures increased control over ones life
- abilities of an individual become apparent when in conjunction with supportive change within the community
Why are physical activity opportunities so important?
- they offer choice and control
What is the resistance theory?
- views people experiences disability as oppressed AND the acknowledgement of these social forces that oppose people with disability
How does the resistance theory recognize power?
- recognizes the presence of power is manifested through policy, support practices, inequities and lack of accessibility
How does the concept of resistance begin?
- with a simple recognition of oppression, a desire to change, and is fuelled by collective banding that raises consciousness, leading to empowerment, action, and societal change
What is the personal coherence theory?
- rooted in strengths perspective
- suggested that people experiencing disabilities are experts in their own lives and that professional support should be focused on the persons “talents, resourcefulness, possibility, meaning, history, and strengths
What is contemporary APA?
- cross-disciplinary
- philosophy and attitude
- focus on differences
- advocacy
- characterized by adaptations to accommodate
- offers opportunity for independence and self-determination
What does adapted really mean?
- suggests that there are changes, modifications, or adjustments of goals, objectives, and/or instructions
- all physical activity is adapted
Why are adaptations used?
- to enhance learning practice and enjoyment of independent physical activity, choice, and opportunity leading to empowerment
How is quality education adapted?
- individualized
- choice drives
- encourages people of all abilities to engage and succeed
- trying to introduce skills to give people the indolence to use them in the future
Who came up with the theory of adaption?
Ernst Kiphard (1983)
What is the theory of adaption?
- stressed individual and environmental interactions
- adaption is a reciprocal process
- must be holistic, age appropriate, person centred and person-directed (look at who the individual is)
Why is adaption important?
- an umbrella process that encompasses related services and such supports as accommodations, modifications, supplementary resources for aids