#6A

People with Disabilities

Introduction:

1-  Hook:

We might not know who is that child who had a learning disability, failed in math in school, and did not speak until the age of 3? But if knew that this disabled child grew up and became Albert Einstein we will definitely know him.

 2- Definition:

When most people think of the word "disability" they immediately picture someone in a wheelchair.

 The most commonly cited definition is that of the World Health Organization in 1976: a disability is any restriction or lack of ability to perform an activity in the manner or within the range considered normal for a human being.

2-  History:

During the middle Ages, disabled people have been treated offensively and in a racist ways.  Madness and other conditions were thought to be caused by demons, therefore, normal people avoided disabled people. In Nazi Germany, between 1939 and 1941, more than 70,000 disabled people have been killed because they were considered “unfit”.

Description/examples

1-  Types:

The category of disability includes people with varying types of impairments that impact on how the individual lives. People who have a broken bone also fall into this category of disability. But the main types of disabilities are: Intellectual disability,Physical disability, Sensory disability, and Mental illness.

2-  Causes:

Some people could born with a disability. Other people get disabled over time, and some people become disabled suddenly, because of an accident or disease. As a fact, accidents cause disabilities more than inheritance dose. In 2008 in the United States, there were 250,700people with a down syndrome and in the same year 2,120,000 people were injured because of traffic accidents.

Advantages and disadvantages

1- advantages:

Being disabled is not necessarily a bad thing. People with disabilities always show an extraordinary intelligence or some kind of ability that normal people can’t do. A study in the US have shown that People with autism often have exceptional memories, and can remember information they read weeks ago. And on a test that involved completing a visual pattern, people with autism finished 40 percent faster than those without the condition.

3-  Disadvantages:

Being disabled means being different, and being different form other people means more challenges. For example, at work, it may take longer for someone with a physical disability to move equipment, while someone with a mental disability may take longer to read and interpret documents.

Solution:

According to the World Bank organization, One-fifth of the estimated global total, or between 110 million and 190 million people, experience significant disabilities. That number of unemployed or unlearned people is a great loss. Therefore, organizations and associations were made to make it easier for disabled people to have jobs, medicine, education or any right.  Disabled People’s Organizations (DPOs) is one of these organizations and 51% of the staff are disabled. To prove that it's interested in fulfilling all their needs.

UAE:

UAE cares about people with disabilities weather they are citizens, residents or visitors. Furthermore, a law was issued 2006 in the UAE that protects people with disabilities and their rights. The Law aims to provide high-quality medical care and social services. And there are organizations that directly help disabled people in the UAE from before 2006 such as, Zayed higher organization for humanitarian care & special needs, Dubai autism center, and the association of families of persons with disabilities. I have a cousin how suffer from down syndrome and she became very social and cooperative because these organizations.  

Conclusion:

Disabled people are people with needs just as we are, and any one of us can become disabled at any time. Therefore, I think disabled people should be treated right and with a lot of care. And we should not waste their qualifications and strength points by making ignored and unemployed.