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Reflection essay on Disabilities

On this group project, the class was given disabilities in order for us to research and form a presentation on the given disability. This in my opinion was an excellent subject to be given to us as a speech class. Disabilities is something that is highly occurring in our population and there is more to it than what most people think. There are many types of disabilities, ranging from: Visual, hearing, intellectual, physical, mental, autism spectrum as well as some from an acquired brain injury. Being aware of what these disabilities mean and how they affect the people that have them is a great step in the right direction to bringing our society closer. Growing up, I have had many occasions to deal with people with disabilities. My two best friends both have younger brothers with autism and seeing them grow up has informed me on how their lifestyle in unique. The child with autism is called Gustavo and he is so smart and talented. Although he has autism and has difficulties learning a...
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Reflection Essay – Presentations for Disability Awareness

Herrera, Nicholas Prof. Sinkoff 06/22/2020 SPC 1017 Reflection Essay – Presentations for Disability Awareness             On Tuesday, June 22 nd , the class presented its second presentation. The presentations consisted of dealing with Disabilities in our society, the way people with disabilities function in the collegiate environment, and how to raise awareness for these unique individuals. For Group One and I, we had the liberty to present on the topic of Vision and Auditory impairments. I had the opportunity to discuss the implementations of smartphone applications into higher education with my counterpart Adriana Haber.             Vision and Auditory Impairments was the topic of our group presentation. In this presentation, the group was able to analyze the topic by going into detail about the history, implementation, presence, and social interactions that take place betwee...
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Disabilities Presentation Reflection Essay

Kelly Alvarez SPC1017 06/30/2020 Disabilities have been around for ages. A disability is defined as a mental or physical condition that limits a person’s movement, sense, or activity. Many people deal with a disability in their daily lives and find it difficult to work and deal with them. Thankfully there are millions of people, associations, organizations, and groups that can help with their struggles. In these presentations, our groups were asked to research and present our findings on specific disabilities and widen our understanding on the topics. To start off, my group, group 1, presented first. We were asked to research and present our findings on the vision and hearing impaired community and individuals. We dissected the project and assigned specific roles to each of our group members. In our presentation, we discussed the history, differences, social aspects, apps, associations, and interviews revolving around the hearing and vision impaired. Personally, I believe my group and ...
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Disabilities Reflection by Adianet Lopez

When the word “disability” is brought up to the average person, stereotypes are always brought to mind. The topic of disabilities is not really a popular topic in our society to such an extent that most individuals are ignorant in the subject. They are not aware of the many different types of disabilities in today’s age. Such as, physical, sensory, intellectual, emotional, pervasive development, or developmental disabilities. Most are blinded to this and choose to believe stereotypes. Hence, I was really excited and glad to be given this topic for my service-learning hours in my speech class. It is an amazing way to spread awareness and positivity towards a situation that really deserves more of these two factors. Moreover, working in the disabilities department at my school has shed a lot of light on this subject for me. I have witnessed a lot of individuals who do not seem like they have disabilities but are very much diagnosed with one. However, individuals with physical disabilitie...
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Reflection Essay Roxana Alfonso

The second presentation in my speech class was related to some disabilities. The project was related to some chapters of COMM book with those disabilities and also gave some facts about each one. The class was divided into three groups and each group was assigned two or three disabilities including five chapters of the book with the purpose of related it. The first group discussed vision and hearing disabilities related to chapters 7, 11, 12, 13, and 14 from the COMM book. This group did amazing work since they covered each aspect of these disabilities since their limitations until their way of life. They explained how these disabled people can make an interpersonal relationship. They also gave a little review of the history of these disabilities. They created a beautiful PowerPoint in which exemplify every disability through pictures. Also, they made a very good brochure in which they resume the content of the project. Some curiosity that this group did was the investigation of some...
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Reflection Essay. Adriana Romero

Disability is that condition under which certain people have some physical, intellectual or sensory deficiency that in the long term affects the way they interact and participate fully in society. In most countries, people with disabilities can apply for recognition of their condition and a certificate of disability, which allows them to access a series of rights and prohibitions. In today's society there is a tendency to adapt the environment and public spaces to the needs of people with disabilities, in order to avoid social exclusion, since a disability is perceived as such, while the person is unable to interact by herself with her own environment. It was very interesting that each group made their presentation on different disabilities. In this way we have been able to expand our knowledge about each of them. Group one was tasked with researching about vision and hearing disabilities. Blindness is a sensory-type functional diversity that consists in the total or partial loss...
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Vision Impairment

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The history and documentation of visual impairments dates back to Biblical times. There are numerous references in the scriptures specific to blindness. These passages give us an insight into how visual impairments were perceived so many years ago. Clearly during this time, people with visual impairments were seen as helpless and dependent on others. The perception was that the cause of blindness could be attributed to the sin of the Father. It wasn't until 1260 that there is documentation that perceptions of people who were blind began to change. During this period there was no formal education available for those who were blind but some people developed their own literacy methods in clever ways. Some important historical events in the history of the field of visual impairments occurred. For example, the first school for the blind was established in Paris, France by Valentine Hauy in 1784. Forty-three years later, in 1827 James Gall publishes First Book for Teaching the Art of R...
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