what is your opinion about the attitude of society towards individuals and special needs?
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Explanation:
Attitude is one’s judgment about a person, group, object or an idea that how he evaluate things. One can’t omit the word attitude from the social definition of disability. Attitude can create or remove barriers to the life of persons with disabilities. Attitudes are learned pre-dispositions to respond in a favourable or unfavourable manner to a particular person, behaviour, belief or thing. An attitude implies a changing emotional state of mind. It must be remembered that attitudes are expressed not only by word or mouth, but more explicitly by facial expression and behaviour. The immediate reaction towards the disabled individual whose physical defect is understood is that he is a different man who lacks something which other normal person has.
According to Charles Osgood, attitudes can be divided into three.
Moral Dimension: things evaluated good or bad
Potency Dimension: strong or weak and
Activity Dimension: active or passive.
These dimensions are also used to classify societal attitude towards persons with disabilities. When person with disabilities who have special divine gift if they are good, strong and active. However when person with disability were regarded as bad, weak and inactive, social norms and policies would favour their destruction. According to Chan (2002) the relationship with others is an important factor in disable’s life to become part of the society. To include the disabled in the society there should have an open attitude towards disabled.
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