Monday, November 16, 2009

talking point # 9

Kliewer

1. "How absurd to be judged by others at all,especially by those who have never
experienced a disability or who are unwillingly providing us with support
or who don't listen to the voices we have."

This quote reminds me of when people say, "I understand" and they really don't. When people find out that my mother passed away they always say the same thing, "Oh I'm so sorry! I understand how you feel". Well actually you don't unless your mother has also passed away. The same goes for people with disabilities. People that don't have a disiblity always judge them and say that they "feel so bad". They just want to be listened to and treated the same. They are no different from us apart from a mental or physical disablity. A lot of the time they can do and even think the same way that we can without disabilites. I'm the same person with or without a mother and expected the be treated the same.

2." If you came into the room and were told there was a retarded child in the class, a child with special needs, i don't think you you would pick lee out. The kids really agree that he's as capable as they are. Intellectually the same."

The first thing that stuck out to me in this quote is the use of the word retarded. I hate when people use this word. It is so mean when someone refers to people with disabilites as retarded. Even saying somethings retarded is not ok. It is the same as saying something is gay. I may not be disabled or homosexual but I think it's horrible someone would refer to something that is different or wrong with those words. Also, not everyone who is disabled looks the same. There are those out there who are more severly disabled than others. There are also those who you would never know are in special classes. A girl that I know was in special classes her whole life and I never even knew it. It just goes to show you that you can't judge people by what they look like on the outside.

3.“Vygotsky found that the culture of segregation surround people with disabilities actually teaches underdevelopment of thinking through the isolation of children from socially valued opportunities… altering the culture of disability requires that a child be recognized as an active learner, a thinker, and a problem-solver, but this cannot occur apart from relationships that allow for such engagement.”

Vygotsky is saying that we can not separate students with disablities from those students who do not have disabilites. Giving them a different education than other students is wrong. They will learn better when they are given all the same materials and attention that all students are given. If students with disablities are shoved off into a different room and given different attention and learn techniques, they are going to feel different and not want to learn. We need to give everyone the same learning opportunities.

This article was kind of hard to read at first but got better as i went on. Working with people with disabilities have always been a passion of mine. While in middle school I would help out with colabrative gym class and loved every second of it. I would always talk to them as if they were the same as me and were not disabled. Treating them the same as yourself will make them feel awesome. They want nothing more than to be treated the same as everyone else in the world.

5 comments:

  1. I like your first quote. Until someone has walked in the other person's shoes, they have no right to make fun or to discriminate against them.

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  2. I agree with Brit's comment. I think it is really common for people who discriminate against others to be unaware and uninformed of the group that they are discriminating against.

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  3. I agree with Britt people are unaware of the group of people they are discriminating.

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  4. I think that it is great that you see past the disability and treat these student the same as you want to be treated. It is the golden rule after all :)

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  5. exactly!! people shouldnt make fun of people if they dont know them, i agree with jessca's comment follow the golden rule!!! =]

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