...understand the context of supporting individuals with learning disabilities (LD 201) Unit 4222-245understand the context of supporting individuals with learning disabilities (LD 201) Unit 4222-245 outcome 1: understand the legislation and policies that support the human rights and inclusion of individuals with learning disabilities: Identify legislation and policies that are designed to promote the human rights, inclusion, equal life chances and citizenship of individuals with learning disabilities. The Mental Capacity Act 2005: This act was introduced in England and Wales in 2007 and aims to protect the rights of people whose mental capacity is in doubt and people who do not have mental capacity. It provides a framework for making decisions on behalf of the individual. It tells us what to do if we are involved in the care, treatment, support of people aged 16 and over who lack mental capacity to make decisions. The Act states that everyone is assumed to make decisions for themselves unless shown otherwise. If it is not clear whether someone has the capacity to make a decision concerning a specific issue and assessment of their capacity should be carried out. The Mental Health Act 1983: The court of protection exists to safeguard the interests of anyone who is incapable by reason of mental disorder of managing and administrating their property and affair. Anyone found on medical evidence to meet these criteria is known as a patient. The courts duties are normally...
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...this therefore removes people being discriminated. The equality acts protect characteristics such as * Age * Disability * Gender reassignment * Marriage and civil partnership * Pregnancy and maternity * Race * Religion and belief * Sex * Sexual orientation This means everyone is equal and should be treated equal regardless. It’s very important in health and social care because according to equal opportunities it states that everyone should have the same good service experience that they deserve and their characteristics should not affect how they are treated. Equality is important because it will create good relations with staff and service users. Diversity Diversity means understanding that everyone is different and unique it’s also about recognising people’s differences and respecting it. This can be anything like race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, age, physical abilities, and religious beliefs. A person’s differences should not affect how they should be treated therefore Health carers need to understand different types of people so they do not discriminate covertly or overtly. Diversity is very important because we are now in a more diverse society in our lives and at work. Understanding people and diversity ensures that everyone is valued and treated fairly in a health care environment. Rights Everyone has basic rights that need to be respected and valued, in return you also have to respect...
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...Introduction Too often when people hear disabled people they only catch the deficit terms “disabled” and that generates in them a feeling of rejection. Even if the mentalities have evolved it is still hard to “normal people” to feel at ease with disabled people and treat them as equal. Sharon Vaughn, Jeanne Shay Schumm and James W. Forgan ( 2013) listed under disabilities: mobility, visual, or hearing impairments; speech impairments; chronic illnesses such as AIDS, diabetes, and lupus; seizure disorders; head injuries; painful conditions such as back injuries and carpal tunnel syndrome; psychological disabilities such as bipolar disorder and severe anxiety or depression; attention deficit disorder; and learning disabilities. Whether they are disabled or not, every child has the right to be educated and it is the duty of the society to make sure that every student has access to equal educational opportunities, and the duty of teachers to ensure that every student participate actively and freely in class. More important it is the teachers’ duty to meet the needs of disabled learners in their classrooms. Even if studying the needs of all the students who suffer from the disabilities listed above would have been great, in this learning reflection the focus will only be on the blind, deaf and epileptic disabled students and how their needs should be met in high education Brief definition of epilepsy, deafness and blindness disabilities Epilepsy: Gretchen Timmel (2006) defined...
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...Disability Leave Disability leave is time off from work for a reason related to someone’s disability. It is a type of ‘reasonable adjustment’ which disabled workers are entitled under the Equality Act 2010. This factsheet tells you why disability leave is important to your branch; how to organise around it; and how to negotiate a good disability leave agreement. Disability issues have been on branch agendas for some time and employers may welcome an approach from UNISON representatives to jointly agree policies for disabled workers. The second half of this factsheet is a briefing on disability leave which you can share with your employer. A) What has disability leave got to do with my branch? One person in five of the working age population is disabled. Disabled people face such widespread discrimination that many are not even ‘out’ at work about having a disability. UNISON supports the legal right of disabled workers to equality, but this can be meaningless without the back-up of a trade union. Disability leave is also an open door for UNISON campaigners and negotiators. The Equality Act 2010 says ‘reasonable adjustments’ must be made for disabled workers, but many employers have poor or non-existent disability policies. The Equality Act is still a relatively new obligation on employers, it widens the scope of the original Disability Discrimination Act and requires public bodies to actively promote disability equality. This is an ideal time...
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...Program Material Aging and Disability Worksheet Part I Identify 2 or 3 issues faced by the aging population. 1. Discrimination 2. Stereotyping 3. Prejudice Answer the following questions in 100 to 200 words each. Provide citations for all the sources you use. • What is ageism? How does ageism influence the presence of diversity in society? Ageism is the act of being prejudice or discriminating against someone because of their age. Ageism is not just directed towards older people, it is also directed towards kids, teenagers, and young adults. Sometimes older people discriminate against younger people and younger people discriminate against older people. Ageism influences diversity in society because people that are affected can lose their job. If their was only younger people working in the workplace then that will leave elderly’s out of work which in turn will lack diversity. Older people that has had their job for years has gotten raises and promotions so some jobs think it is easier to fire them and hire younger people to save money. They think it is cheaper to replace them. • What is the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA)? How does the ADEA address issues for the aging population? The Age Discrimination in Employment Act prevents jobs to discriminate against older people that are 40 and older. The ADEA was enacted in 1968. It prevents jobs from firing elderly people and hiring younger people because of them wanting...
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...EXPLAIN HOW LEGISLATION AND CODES OF PRACTICE RELATING TO EQUALITY DIVERSITY AND DISCRIMINATION APPLY TO YOUR OWN WORK ROLE In my role as a childminder, I support vulnerable individuals, some of whom are unable to complain when things are not right. It is essential in my job to be aware of and uphold children’s rights by ensuring that my-self and others do not discriminating against or disadvantaging them in any way, even unintentionally. The following are Equality Legislations which relate to my work role (copies in guidance folder in filing cabinat): Disability Discrimination Act 1995 – Outlaws the discrimination of disabled people in the provision of facilities and services. As a childminder I aim to ensure that everyone in my setting is treated fairly whatever their disability. I must also ensure that all activites and facilities are accessible to all where possible. Sex discrimination Act 1975 – Makes it unlawful to discriminate on the grounds of sex when providing services or facilities. As a childminder I treat everyone in my setting fairly whatever their sexual orientation. Human rights Act 1998 – Contains 16 basic rights which affect all aspects of human rights. The right to life Freedom from torture and degrading treatment Freedom from slavery and forced labour The right to liberty The right to a fair trial The right not to be punished for something that wasn't a crime when you did it The right to respect for private and...
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...care and accepting his disabled brother, Gabriel. This inspired me to write about my life dealing with a severely autistic brother. I know how laborious it can be for Troy to look after his brother. It takes a lot of hard work, but the most important part is to have patience and to fully understand a brother with a severe disability. I had to learn to be patient to overcome my brother’s disability and to love, respect, and accept him for who he is regardless of how it affects me. In this paper, I will explore the ways in which Troy interacts with Gabriel, comparing them with how I interact with my brother, Bryan, and discuss how the people in America perceive and treat individuals with disabilities. The relationship between Troy and Gabriel is strained at best. Although, Troy struggles to provide his brother Gabriel with tenderness, dignity, and acknowledgement, he doesn’t know how to express his true feelings and emotions about his disabled brother. For a good and positive relationship between brothers to exist, there has to be good communication, and appreciation for each other. However, Troy doesn't seem to accept his brother and his disability. The way Troy interacts with Gabriel is very frustrating and painful to write about. The first reason why Troy does not demonstrate enough compassion to his brother is because he feels guilty about how he is taking his brother’s monthly check from the government for his own personal uses. In the book to support this notion, Troy states...
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...Adventurous club Westgate bowling alley Journal entry #7 When working with the adventurous club at the bowling alley it gave me a different perspective on how I look at people with disabilities and how that we are not so much different. From seeing them get excited from making a good score to seeing them do horrible in one sitting. These are many characteristics that I myself have, the competitiveness to be out there and to do the best that I can, to wanting to be the best person on the field, lane, or court. I guess I wasn’t expecting that in them and I should have expected more. I still have a lot to learn with working with people that have disabilities. From coaching softball for a couple years it was a different experience when starting...
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...What is equality? Treat every individual equally in status, rights and opportunities. Equality is about making sure that every individual has an equal opportunity to make the most of their lives and abilities and believing that no one should have lesser life chances because of where they were born, what they believe or whether they have a disability. Another example is race, disability, gender and sexuality have experienced discrimination. What is diversity? Diversity basically means difference. Meaning, accepting and respecting the differences and being able to value and respect them. These can be along the lengths of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, age, physical abilities, religious beliefs or political beliefs. It is the exploration of these differences in a safe and positive. It is about understanding each other and moving beyond simple tolerance to embracing. Diversity helps in meeting different people from different countries, so helping to learn different culture, different types of food, various religions, different languages, which helps bring the society together which allows people coming together to socialise. Being open to other cultures and being able to get along with everyone even thou they have difference, which therefore allows our everyday lives to be more interesting, even at the basic levels as then types of food we eat. Example: Rosehill Nursery At Rosehill Nursery there are different people which come from different...
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...Worksheet Please complete the following exercises, remembering that you are in an academic setting and should remain unbiased, considerate, and professional when completing this worksheet. Part I Select three of the identity categories below and name or describe at least 3 related stereotypes for each: • Race • Ethnicity • Religion • Gender • Sexual orientation • Age • Disability |Category |Stereotype 1 |Stereotype 2 |Stereotype 3 | |Race |African Americans are better at |African American men are well |Caucasians have no rhythm and | | |sports. |endowed |cannot dance. | |Gender |Women are not as strong as men. |Women are not politicians. |Women are supposed to be | | | | |submissive and do as they are | | | | |told. | |Disability |People with disabilities cannot |Having a mental disability means |People with disabilities are | | |work. ...
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...Han Qi AUG 15 2013 Should high-functioning autism be considered a disability? In this week, we are talking about people who are autistic. Such as Christopher, the main character in The Curious Incident of The Dog in The Night-time; Jacob Barnett, Daniel Tammet and even Temple Grandin who was talked about in today' s film earlier. They all have autism, but one point you cannot deny is that they are all genius. So, my view about this topic is, high-functioning autism is not, and should be not considered as a disability. First of all, I think disability is defined as incomplete physical ability. When it comes to autisms, they just afraid to communicate with others. There do have someone who just so nervous and anxious that they cannot talk to other people and do not like stay at crowded place because they think it' s noisy and dirty. So, the autism is just a personality, not even an illness. When those bad guys who are laughing at autisms, they never think about themselves, because it is them who cause autisms feel terrible. The result always be that autisms can accept people who always love them, and they are afraid and even angry with those bad guys and strangers. Just like Temple Grandin in the movie, she finally accepts her mom' s hug. That moment was really impressive, I almost cried. Can you image that an autism change the behavior and habit. So, autisms are not always autistic, they become more outgoing just like those nervous people try to talk to others. If autisms...
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...Health and Care services should concede, respect and accommodate this diversity. Encouraging equality and taking rights into account, is very important part of health and care services. The most important issues for health and Care workers and organizations is how to meet and respond to diverse service users, and making sure that every service uses if pleased with the equality. For example Health and Care practitioner have to meet specific needs of people that are from different ethnicity, gender, age, cultural background. Equality Equality means treating everyone equally no matter of their; skin color, age, gender, sexual orientation, disability etc. It is very hard to treat people the same way because every individual person has his own personality and own individual needs so individuality of people should be taken into consideration. For example if we had two people seeking information about the services available on written copy and one would be speaking English and one would speak Arabic and the information where only handed out in English the other person wouldn’t understand it and the would be no equality between them. People who work in health and care settings must value diversity and treat people fairly not treating certain groups according to their preferences, and at the expense of those who hold prejudices, and having the chance to be able to have the rights. Thanks to equality act 2010 people are now able to work diverse range of people in many different surroundings...
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...following exercises, remembering that you are in an academic setting and should remain unbiased, considerate, and professional when completing this worksheet. Part I Select three of the identity categories below and name or describe at least three related stereotypes for each: * Race * Ethnicity * Religion * Gender * Sexual orientation * Age * Disability Category | Stereotype 1 | Stereotype 2 | Stereotype 3 | Gender | Women are not as strong as men | Women are never in charge | Women are put on this earth to be house wives and/or servants | Disability | If people with a disability have kids the. Their child is more like to be disabled has well | Only people who use wheelchairs or a walker can use disabled parking spaces | A disabled employee can't possibly do as good of work as a non disabled employee | Race | Whites can't dance | Black people are ghetto | Latino people have lots of kids | Part II Answer each question in 50 to 100 words related to those stereotypes. Provide citations for all the sources you use. * What are the positive aspects of stereotypes, if any? In my opinion I do not believe that there is a positive side when it comes to stereotyping. Just because a person looks a different way doesn't mean that they are like other people who look like them. When I say this I mean people of color. I personally know white people and they can dance but by me being black people of my color think that. * What...
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...Unit 1 Assessment You should use this file to complete your Assessment. • The first thing you need to do is save a copy of this document, either onto your computer or a USB drive • Then work through your Assessment, remembering to save your work regularly • When you’ve finished, print out a copy to keep for reference • Then, go to www.vision2learn.com and send your completed Assessment to your tutor via your My Study area – make sure it is clearly marked with your name, the course title and the Unit and Assessment number. Please note that this Assessment document has 16 pages and is made up of 5 Parts. Name: Part 1: Understanding equality This section will help you to evidence Learning Outcome 1: Know the meaning of equality |Learning objective |Place in Assessment | |1.1 Define the following terms: |Question 1 Page 1 | |Equality | | |Stereotyping | | |Prejudice | | |Labelling ...
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...abortionDisability and abortion This is an issue which many supporters of abortion find themselves in a quandary about. They argue that whilst a person with a disability should be treated exactly the same as someone without a disability; the issue remains that in many ways they are not. People with a disability are still at a disadvantage in our society. The more severe that disability the less likely that person can live a normal life. But it is possible to think this whilst arguing for an end to discrimination against disabled people. Opposition to abortion on grounds of a disability is discussed further in our anti-abortion section. If you are disabled or know someone who is, or if you have been faced with a diagnosis of disability during pregnancy, do you think that babies with disabilities should have the same rights and protection as babies without disabilities? Should the abortion law be changed? The Golden Rule Is there an alternative to fretting over women’s rights, and whether fetuses are people? The utilitarian philosopher Richard Hare believed so. He argued from the Golden Rule; “Treat others as you would wish to be treated in the same situation”. Since most mothers would not have wanted to be aborted when they were fetuses, abortion is, on the face of it, wrong; even for a fetus with spina bifida who is likely to be handicapped, because if we were that fetus we would choose life in a wheelchair rather than no life at all. But imagine that the mother plans...
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