Today, I want to talk about disability, and as these people who are so good and so humble, sometimes go through very unfortunate times for people who do not really measure their words that is why today I have come to talk to you about what is the disability, but first of all we must know them a little more.
What is disability?
Limitation of any physical or mental faculty that precludes or hinders the normal development of a person's activity.
The social approach to disability considers the application of disability mainly as a social problem created and basically as a matter of the complete inclusion of individuals in society (inclusion, such as the rights of the disabled person). Those paradigm takes the disabled person as a subject of law, rights that are not exercised if they are violated by their condition of inferiority.
In this approach disability is a complex collection of conditions, many of which are created by the social environment, which is why management of the problem requires social action and it is the collective responsibility of society to make the necessary environmental modifications for the full participation of person with disability in all areas of life The greatest inequality occurs in the disinformation of the disability that is faced by people without disabilities and not knowing how to deal with the disabled person, achieving a dislocation not wanted. Society must remove the barriers to achieve equal opportunities between people with disabilities and people without disabilities. To achieve this, we have the technologies of support...
Where do I want to go with this?
Almost all people will experience some form of disability at some point in our lives. So speaking for her is talking for everyone.
If we do not talk about disability we will be open to fears of prejudice and misinformation. Disability is not something that is suffered or possessed, it is not a disease, it is not something that we should feel sorry for, much less a tragedy..
How many times for lack of empathy have we used as an insult? How many times have we used it as a mockery? Deaf, dumb, blind, but if we only understood, this would be a compliment. Disability is a life experience, but a very difficult experience, it is much more difficult for the barriers than the society that we put..
Many times we have heard that the word has power and nothing more certain when it comes to inclusion. By means of the word great projects ar born and the most brilliant ideas are executed, but the same word is the one in charge of constructing those impenetrable barriers that do not allow the passage of the dignity, the value, the freedom, the autonomy and even of the own life.
This is everyone's responsibility.
In a society that struggles to be more and more influential, correct language must be everybody's business. We must strive and learn to look at the person to stop referring to the disability. Avoiding hurting, disparaging, minimizing or labeling should be the slogan of those who want an egalitarian world, without borders, without distinction or difference.
Today, according to the UN, disability is seen as a social fact and results from the interaction between people with disabilities and barriers due to attitude and environment, which prevent their full and effective participation in society, in equality of conditions with the others.
Some very important advice to see if we all start to change the deal we give.
- Adopt a natural and simple way of speaking. Avoid technical and complex language and use direct and well-constructed phrases. Avoid circumlocutions (turn around, roll up).
- Limit the aid to what is necessary, trying to make it work alone in the rest of the activities.
- Facilitate your relationship with other people.
- Avoid overprotection. Let them do or try to do as much as they can. Help them only when it is really necessary.
Here I leave a video that maybe many of you have seen. But it's the best example I can put
They are human beings like us, so treat them as such