English, asked by swara123456, 5 months ago

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what comes to mind when
hear the word dlisability?
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inasselmimoune: people that cant walk

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Answered by ItsCuteBaby83
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Explanation:

Since I’ve worked in education a good part of my life, I’ve learned that disability encompasses a lot of things. It is a word to include anxiety disorders or PTSD that limit students from sitting in an enclosed space for too long and require extra time for assignments. It can mean dyslexia in which students understand what they read, but the process of decoding the text is very difficult and time consuming as their mind may reverse the letters. A physical disability may be overt such as an amputee or hidden like a chronic pain disorder such as fibromyalgia in which we don’t “see” a manifestation, but the effects are there and the student may need extra time with assignments along with certain modifications within the classroom. With online learning, people who find classroom schedules difficult may find more freedom to work with their studying as someone with chronic fatigue may have a certain amount of “good” hours in which he or she can get work done. That student may not want to use those hours on attending a class: they could clean the house or take care of personal business instead of a biweekly or triweekly class. So they do the class when they can, within the given time frame.

I’m answering as a teacher as that is really where I learned what the word meant. I know that people by and large do not understand the word. I grew up with scoliosis and I spent a lot of my tween and teen years going to doctors. It was a hidden disability that became overt when I could no longer take gym classes because of pain, or as I grew, one shoulder was prominently higher than the other. I had to wear a brace. I still didn’t see it as a disability even when people stared at me or said rude things like “Hey, broken neck” or other niceties. However, I remember as an adult that I got into yoga and pilates so that scoliosis would not be problematic. When a doctor referred to it as a deformity, I remember almost gasping as it felt like a slap.

So I think we as a society have been trained to think of it in physical terms, along with something to be shunned and feared. However, most people are a car accident or a pinched nerve away from “disability” as we can lose our “ableness” in a blink of an eye. That goes for psychological disability as well as a horrific event can change a person’s emotional state, requiring certain tools so that he or she can function. A stroke can impair cognitive function. Let’s say I’ve had a long conversation with myself on disability both as a teacher and as a person. I think most people don’t have that conversation unless their job requires it or something goes drastically wrong in their lives because it doesn’t concern them.

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