Essays on Disability

Helen Keller was a brilliant woman with very horrible disabilities. When Helen turned two she found out she had meningitis, and a brain infection. Because there wasn’t any cure in those days in time it led to her having blindness and deafness. Helen was known…

Introduction This paper will be focusing on some of the challenges person’s with disability face. ‘An individual with a disability is defined by the Americans with Disability Act as a person who has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major…

“Maybe the sting of being disabled goes away for some people, but not for me,” says Hank Stampler. “It’s just always there. For me, the sting of becoming disabled is different than the sting of being disabled.” Stampler, 44, who became a wheelchair user following…

“If I was not taking pictures of them nobody would see them”, the photographer Diane Arbus made in the sixties and seventies a series of portraits of what we called at that time “freaks”: dwarfs, giants, transgender people, mentally and physically disabled persons. She demonstrated…

Abuse is mistreatment of individuals at any age and any gender such as mistreatment among children, women, adult and older population. Abuse can occur at any vulnerable age, where individual is dependent on others. With modernization, the levels of compassion, love and humanity are decreasing…

There are many causes that lead to Intellectual Developmental Disorder, some of them can be prevented. However, it is essential to know how to help people who have this disorder to improve themselves. Of course, not everyone has the same symptoms when it comes to…

Historical Background of the Institution The Jacaranda workshop that began in 1982 was initially started as a project by the Rotary Club Nairobi. What the workshop does is that it offers employment as well as the possibility for mentally handicapped people to work on further…

Irish Wheelchair Association (IWA) works with, and on behalf of, people with physical disabilities to drive positive change in Ireland through the influencing of public policy, the provision of quality services and enabling accessibility to all aspects of society. The personal career opportunity with the…

The term disabled has a varied span of meanings. The term disabled has some 7 medical sub-divisions. When used in reference to the self-driving of vehicles, this generally refers to an impairment of any or all of the four limbs in human beings. As regards,…

This article opens a series of articles for people with disabilities. We all have unequal opportunities, but we all have equal rights. Despite the fact that people with disabilities find it hard to get a job , there are areas in which they can succeed….