Community Based Rehabilitation: Provide Barrier Freeenvironment and Developmental Opportunities for Disabled People (original) (raw)
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Department of Special Education, University of Karachi, 2018
The Persons With Disability became a very important field of study among contemporary scholars specially social scientists as \Veil as International and National Human Rights Organizations because this segment of society is facing a lot of environmental, attitudinal and institutional barriers in the society. The present study is carried out to know the social problems face by disables in the society special reference to University of Karachi. The qualitative and quantitative approaches were used and data were collected through open and closed end questionnaire/interview schedules. The Data were also collected from the "DISABLE WALK" in the shape of their slogans displayed on the pictures. Participants of the study were disable students of university of Karachi and snow ball sampling technique was use for data collection. Number of the participants were 22 because very few Persons With Disabilities (students) getting education in the University. The data were analyzed through the help of social model of disable and social constructionist. The findings suggest that disability is socially constructed and it is the production of society. If the disables are included in mainstream of society , they will be greatly contribute for the development of the society. Keywords: Persons With Disability, social model of disability. Social Constructionism , Attitudinal barriers, Environmental barriers, Institutional barriers
Social Model a new approach of the disability theme
The experience of disability is part of the daily lives of people who have a disease, lesion or corporal limitation. Disability is still understood as personal bad luck; moreover, from the social and political points of view, the disabled are seen as a minority. The aim of this study is to contribute to the knowledge about the experience of disability. The research presents a new approach on the theme: the social model. This approach appeared as an alternative to the medical model of disability, which sees the lesion as the primary cause of social inequality and of the disadvantages experienced by the disabled, ignoring the role of social structures in their oppression and marginalization. The study permits reflecting on how the difficulties and barriers society imposed on people considered different make disability a reality and portray social injustice and the vulnerability situation lived by excluded groups.
Sociological Component / Ivana Šuhajdová. In: Key Components of Inclusive Education. - Berlín : Peter Lang, 2019. - ISBN 978-3-631-76858-7. - ISSN 2195-1845. - S. 65-81
Everyone is entitled not only to the right to education but also to live full life. Every person, without exception, is first of all a human being who has got protected and secured human rights, with the significant support of national and international code and documents.
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Challanges faced by people with physical disabilitie: A case of Chinyika west in Manicaland
The purpose of the study was to expose tha Challanges faced by children witha physical disabilities in Makoni, Chinyika west in Manicaland in an attempt to attract tha attention of the policy makers to quickly address tha challenges at hand qnd to recommend strategies that helps people with physical disabilities in schools. The study used a qualitative research a case study research design. The case study enabled the researcher to fully comprehand distinct experiences and feelings because it is qualitative in nature. The research used a target population of 59 people sellected using simple random sampling and stratified random sampling procedure. In an attempt to to find the bases of the research, the study considered available literature which exposes the view that there are several challanges that are being confronted by pupil with physical disabilities, chiefly neglect, physical abuse, and emotional abuse due to stigmatisation in the social activities. This then forces them to react violently when they are mishandled. The literature advances the idea that community has no trepidation for the disabled pupil on the belief that they perceive disability as a curse from the creator for the transgressions committed by their elders; this is in tandem with the African traditional beliefs and practices. The study concluded that abuse among children with physical disabilities was rampant in Chnyika West. It was also construed that children with physical disabilities were also affected by their condition as they attempt to develop socaial, physiological and emotionally. Physical disability was making it difficult to socialize because of mobility problems. Physical disability were found tobe responsible for poor psychological and emotional developmentthat end up fostering an ascendent perception and low level of self esteem as a result of disabilities. The study ahowed that the community had a negative attitude towards children with physical disabilities and donors were found to be facing aome challanges in accessing and assisting the children. In the light of the findings,the reaserch recommend that children with physical disabilities should be educated to accept their disabilities in order to increase self esteem and self concept. The children with physical disabilities needs life long skills development to enable them to live independently. Public paces like toilets , pitches heals must show inclusivity in their nature, this will help to give them a sense of belonging.
Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, 2015
Fundamental changes which happen in the field of political, economic life in Russia have a great impact on the efficiency of the rehabilitation work with various socially vulnerable groups of the population. The basis for the development of a complex of rehabilitation measures are researches in a wide range of branches of knowledge: sociology, economy, psychology, pedagogics, medicine, science of law, criminology. Practical realization of the rehabilitation work will be possible only when a number of social and economic, organizational and administrative, pedagogical, social and psychological, legal and staffing issues will be decided. Persons with various health problems can emerge in any family and in any social conditions, in any ethnic group and anywhere in the world. Unfortunately, a disabled person in Russian submission is crippled, demanding care sufferer. That is why in the Russian and post-Soviet public consciousness disability is a synonym of poverty and hopelessness. However, recently in the post-Soviet space the social inclusion on the basis of ethno-cultural communities realizing new discursive practices directed on rehabilitation and adaptation of persons with limited health opportunities in everyday life of the society has experienced considerable changes. The world experience testifies that at the corresponding education and real helps persons, who have restrictions on health, can become valuable members of the society, regardless of the system of social protection that, finally, testifies for the high civil status of the society. Today, as the UNO says, in the world there are about 450 million people who have these or those mental and/or physical health disorders. In general they form 1/10 part of inhabitants of all over our planet. Moreover, as the World Health Organization (WHO) shows, a number of disabled children in the world is 13%. Among them 3% of children are born with intelligence disorders, and 10%-with other mental or physical problems. In total in the world there are now about 200 million children with limited health opportunities. At the same time, various environmental issues find a tendency to the increased number of disabled children in the world, in the post-Soviet space in particular. So, in Russia for the last decade the frequency of children's disability has doubled: as the WHO calculations show about 900 thousand of children's population are disabled children (Blinkov, 2005, p. 8). Relevance of this problem is caused by the fact that various forms of new services-psychological consultations, centers of social services, social shelters, "telephone emergency services ", etc. actively take root into practice of the social work, but their development in many respects is at a loss for the lack of a system approach, scientific and practical base in the field of complex rehabilitation. Now, among many forms of the development of social services of the population, rehabilitation of disabled people in rehabilitation centers occupies an actual direction. The paper presents the unique experiment on social rehabilitation of persons with limited health opportunities which is realized within the social project of the Akmolinsk regional society of Germans (Republic of Kazakhstan). So, the rehabilitation work considered as the activity of integrated experts directed on restoration, or compensation of the broken or lost abilities of a person to performance of public, professional and household functions according to their interests, can be presented as the direction of social services in protection, preservation and development of health of the population, the decreased social tension in the society, improvement of the quality of life the diaspora. Because, as a rule, diaspora groups are age-related members of the society, the offered experience of the Kazakhstan society of the German culture can be interesting as a new discursive practice of socialization and adaptation of persons with limited health opportunities.