explain the term social construction of disability and how does it differ to the social model of disability?
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This is actually what do we say we do regarding disability and what do we actually do regarding disability - model vs. practice.  Do we actually follow all those high-minded, progressive laws and standards and stated attitudes?  What really are people's actual way of dealing with the disabled and their issues?\n\nModel = what is supposed to be; construction = way it is.
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The school system is a social creation, run by man. \nThe goals of each individual are influenced by the society. Therefore there is a large connection here.\n\nThere would be a large amount of social analysis to answer this question. I recommend "sociology" by Anthony Giddens (in all libraries)\n\nFurthermore, an assessment of how the curriculum is constructed in your area would also do well. I answered a similar question to this last year with reference to the curriculum creation process of my local eduacation body - Board of Studies NSW. You will have a similar body wherever you are from.
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SSI is Supplemental Security Income.It is given to people who are disabled but don't have enough work credits to qualify for disability through Social Security.And I believe it is usually given through the welfare office.\nSSD is Social Security Disability.It is given to people who have enough work credits paid into the Social Security system.You have had to pay enough into it to qualify.\nI totally understand what your friend is going through.I have been receiving SSD for a few years.People always assume I am getting welfare.My check is based on what I made during the 20+ years that I worked.\nSSI checks are usually smaller than SSD checks,unless you didn't earn much money while you worked.Either way,it isn't enough to live off of.
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Severe and Profound Disabilities\nDEFINITION: Severe and Profound means a primary disability that:\nSeverely impairs cognitive abilities, adaptive skills, and life functioning. \nMay have associated severe behavior problems. \nHas the high probability of additional physical or sensory disabilities. \nRequires significantly more educational resources than are provided for the children with mild and moderate disabilities in special education programs. \n \nHELPFUL LINKS ARC--http://www.thearc.org/\nActivities--http://www.palaestra.com/featurestory.html
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they are pretty much the same thing. Enabling is helping others to avoid responsibility for their actions. Codependency is a larger balloon that included enabling but also has more to do with what goes on inside you that make you feel and do the things you do.\n\nclear as mud.
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Do you mean "disability" and social "security"?\n\nFor adults (over age 18):\n"How does Social Security decide if I am disabled?\n\nBy law, Social Security has a very strict definition of disability. To be found disabled:\n\n* You must be unable to do any substantial work because of your medical condition(s); and\n\n* Your medical condition(s) must have lasted, or be expected to last, at least 1 year, or be expected to result in your death.\n\nFor children (under 18 years of age):\n\n Social Security has a strict definition of disability for children.\n\n    * The child must have a physical or mental condition(s) that very seriously limits his or her activities; and\n    * The condition(s) must have lasted, or be expected to last, at least 1 year or result in death.\n\nMore information can be found at the links below.
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Sweetone referred you to the DSM-IV.  That is the Daignostic and Statistical Manual, Fourth Edition.  YOu will find a copy in any university library if they offer a teachign degree or degrees in psychology.  \n\nThey are two separate categories, though connected - ADHD includes hypercativity while ADD does not.  They aren't necessarily identified as specific learning disabilities - there is not yet agreement about that.  The terms did not really come into common usage until the 1980's and it was not really until the 1990's that most people involved in he school system for example would have heard of them.\n\nMany people believe as one of the previous posters does, that these disorders do not exist.  However, recent research using the latest MRI and other imaging technology has showm differences in brain function and brain activity in individuals with ADHD and ADD.\n\nThe websites I've attached may help you.
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The focus is the social symbols of people.\n“Symbolic Interactionist Paradigm: This is the paradigm used by sociologists who are most interested in understanding how people make use of symbols to understand their world. The meaning of these symbols is not “personal,” but social. In other words, symbols come to have meaning only as a result of people’s interactions with one another. Symbolic interactionists want to learn, for instance, how people come to learn and use symbols in their daily lives.”
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Your question is rather vague. Disability studies is a wide field, and questionnaires are usually very specific.\n\nAlso, are you looking for information to make your own questionnaires, or are you looking for ones that are already made that you can answer?\n\nTry the following sites:\n\nhttp://www.cec.sped.org/\nhttp://www.ldonline.org/\nhttp://www.reading.org/\nhttp://www.kidsource.com/kidsource/pages/dis.learning.html
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I think it depends on several factors.  Success is relative.  What do you define success as?  Success in social relationships, success in independent living, success in employment?  And within those realms, what makes you successful?  In employment, is success earning a lot of money, having good relationships with your coworkers, enjoying your work, etc.?  I am a researcher in quality of life in people with disabilities, and it is very clear that success is a very personal thing, and is defined differently by everyone.  So, in order to answer your question, you would need to define what success means to you!  Also, these factors vary by types of disability (e.g. spinal cord injury vs. brain injury vs. developmental disability, etc.).
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OK, I can see how they may be confusing, and really have only tinges of differences.\nSociological generalization is based on research.  For instance: Based on research we might conclude that people living below the poverty level are more likely to have a lower level of education than those living above the poverty level.  It is not one hundred percent correct but is based on statistics and research.\nStereotypes are generally not based on research, instead they are based on assumptions of the general public.  Thus, they are more often wrong than not.  \nBoth are used to simplify the world in which we live, and neither can be one hundred percent correct.
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You already know people judge a lot based on visuals- people in wheelchairs just have an extra set of visuals to deal with.\n\nThe main thing is getting out there where the guys are. Wheelchirs can limit mobility and socializing if you don't work at it.\n\nLots of the folk I work with in chiars are dating.
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Goodwill employs many people who are retarded or have mental illnesses in workshops where they are closely supervised & trained.  Some become able to work in competitive employment & are visited by a Goodwill employee periodically to see how they are coming along.\n\nBecause of their workshops many underprivileged people feel that they are contributing to society & it increases their self-worth.\n\nThis is how it works in America; I didn't know they were in other countries.
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Are you already using a program like TEACCH or PECS? Does he/she use communication cards or a communication board, sign language, or what?\n\nIs this document for the disabled person's use, or for those around him/her to understand what he/she's saying?\n\nCompiling a dictionary means you want each item to be easy to find, and clear to understand.\n\nIf you are making it for the disabled person, how does he/she categorize his/her own words and language? This sounds like a project you should do together. He/she categorizes, you compile.\n\nIf you are making it for the people around the disabled person, so that they can understand him/her, you have a choice of categorizing by type of word (noun, verb, etc.), type of concept (eating, travelling, etc.), alphabetical, or frequency of use. Given the type of communication this person is using, which is easier for people to find the information?\n\nInclude all symbols/signs used by the disabled person in the document, and include space for add-ons as his/her vocabulary develops.\n\nOn the other hand, if you are wanting to compile something in general, as a program for people to use in training disabled people, TEACCH, PECS, communication board programs, etc. already have these available. Unless you have something totally new?\n\nGood luck!
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Social scientists make up alot of crap definitions. No difference although a textbook might say that there is difference.  So if you are studying for some exam read your text book.  If you are wondering for the sake of curiousity...then no real difference.
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B.\nDef: Social promotion is the practice of promoting schoolchildren to the next grade, to keep them with their peers, regardless of whether they are capable of doing grade-level work.
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I am not sure how it is done, but I know my neighbor just got disability and he has not been able to work much in his life due to seizures... he is 44 years old...Best of Luck!\n\ntecnically it is ssi not ssd