Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities

Question 1:

With the introduction of lot many topics through the course, the area of disability really attracted me. The area in the topic of disability that was more interesting was the people with developmental or the intellectual disabilities.

A:  The Website URL which was followed for the explanation of the concept of intellectual disabilities among people:

https://aaidd.org/news-policy/policy/position-statements/human-and-civil-rights

The website illustrates the equality for the people with intellectual disabilities in the current scenario and the rights of the people that have been long ignored in the society throughout the past decades. The civil and the human rights of the entire individual in the society should be respected. The individuals with intellectual disability also deserve protection, honor and respect and thus their rights must be central towards the entire advocacy (Human and Civil Rights 2018). The website describes how the civil and the human rights of the people suffering from developmental or intellectual disabilities have been unjustifiably limited and denied on the basis of the assumption of the lack of the humanity of the intellectually disabled people in the society.

B:

Information in relation to the person with disabilities- The chosen website is published by American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. The data or the information of the website included the inalienable rights of each and every human being including the people with development disorders (Stein 2017).  Some of these rights included right towards dignity, health, self determination, equivalent opportunity and other similar rights recognized by the international declarations and the law. It has often been noticed that the people who are the sufferer of intellectual and developmental disabilities faces different types of unique challenges like social exclusion, cultural and social attitudes, underpayment for services and the labor, denial of the measures of economic self sufficiency, social prejudice and force impoverishment with high exposure towards the risk of violations and marginalization in the society.
Question 2:

According to Chapter 6 of No Pity, self advocacy can be defined as the movements of the new rights of the people with specific retardation. It can be illustrated as the parallel cry of self determination by some other group of people who are disabled in nature who rebel against the long deprivation of choices, underestimation and forced leading of lesser lives (Shapiro 1994). It is a major part of the overall rights related to disability movement and a altogether separate version which tends to target on the issues that impacts on the people suffering from mental retardation (Werner and Shulman 2015). Though the freedom from any sort of marginalization and discrimination is one of the basic inalienable right of every human being that are accepted as a major part of the basic fundamental law of the land, initiating advancement of the civil and the human rights of individual suffering from intellectual and developmental disabilities are still a big challenge. This is because most of the time, the government and the local governmental agencies remain unaware of the ignorance and the discrimination the people with intellectual disabilities are facing in their day to day lives.

 The concept of self advocacy is one of the most essential ways by which people with intellectual disabilities can own their voice of themselves. Jackie Downer encapsulated all the potential of the concept of self advocacy in the context of intellectual disabilities. According to her words, emphasis has been given towards the importance of having a voice of own for the people suffering from developmental and intellectual disabilities. It is the fundamental right of the intellectually disabled people to have a voice of own for exploring, explaining and asserting one self (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine 2016). Self advocacy is an important factor that should be embraced by each of the intellectually disabled individual since it is a way to speak out to the society about the ability to communicate (Anderson and Bigby 2017). It serves as a major way to acknowledge to the world that these people can also express themselves, think for themselves and are capable of doing their works by own.

Question3:
Principles in the website article, A Disabled Manifesto

The disabled people are still the victims of significant barriers towards getting a happy living and independent lives. The provision of equal opportunity for each and every individual is the test of a liberal society. The principles of a Disabled Manifesto focus on the rights of the disabled people and encircles on the notion that each and every individual irrespective of any sort of physical or mental disability must be properly supported and given equal rights for all the available opportunities and the rights of the society. From the chosen website, the information in the website promoted the signal and the position of all the people suffering from intellectual disability in the current era at our society (Kelly, Dowling and Winter 2016). The website illustrated and highlighted the fat that all groups of people irrespective of their nature and health status are entitled to basic human and civil rights that includes justice, equality, self determination, health, community participation, access to vote, dignity and the rights to autonomy. The information on the rights and the status of the intellectually disabled group of individual on the chosen website thus highlights the basic principles of propagation and restoration of the rights of the individuals as explained in the website article, A Disabled Manifesto.

7.5A
Question1
Individuals achieve personal goals.

Some of the personal goals that the individual has achieved include the following.

The use of home appliances, TV and use of microwave at home followed by the use of tooth brush and other washing things for self care constitutes some of the basic personal goals of an individual in their day to day life. Self improvement by the means of exercise and weight control, learning new skills and gaining knowledge, getting involved in the local community activities and engage in socialization and communication are some of the basic goals.

Indicate whether the area is OKAY at this Time or Needs Follow Up

The individual has his or her daily personal goals and thus it can be concluded that the area is OKAY.
Individuals are satisfied with services and supports

One of the important outcomes is the service satisfaction. Individual is not at all satisfied with the services and the typical supports and thus expresses his or her dissatisfaction in relevant queries. Furthermore due to the poor level of satisfaction, the individual do not want to continue with the current services and supports.
Indicate whether the area is OKAY at this Time or Needs Follow Up

The individual is not at all happy with the service and ask for change in the services and listed couple of things which needs to be improved. Hence the area was NOT OKAY.

Individuals are satisfied with their lives.

The perception of individual differs in case of the personal quality life. The individual’s satisfaction towards his life is reflected towards his general sense of wellbeing. In this scenario, the individual expresses a positive outlook towards his life, furthermore the individual have immense satisfaction towards his life and his lives values.
Indicate whether the area is OKAY at this Time or Needs Follow Up

The individual is satisfied hence the area is OKAY.

Suggestions that would make things better

It is the responsibility for each and every individual of the society to make the society more inclusive for every one residing in it. To make things better for the intellectually disabled people it is important to value the rights and the dignity of the disabled, enable employment of the disabled enthusiastic people, promote social inclusions in the educational institutions, and acknowledge the marginalization and the brutality that the intellectually disabled people faces and finally promote the realizations among all the members of the society that they are also humans like others.

References

Anderson, S. and Bigby, C., 2017. Self‐Advocacy as a Means to Positive Identities for People with Intellectual Disability:‘We Just Help Them, Be Them Really’. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 30(1), pp.109-120.

Human and Civil Rights . 2018. Human and Civil Rights . [ONLINE] Available at: https://aaidd.org/news-policy/policy/position-statements/human-and-civil-rights. [Accessed 26 June 2018].

Kelly, B., Dowling, S. and Winter, K., 2016. Disabled Children and Young People in Out-of-Home Care; Summary Report.

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2016. Ending discrimination against people with mental and substance use disorders: The evidence for stigma change. National Academies Press.

Owen, A., Arnold, K., Friedman, C. and Sandman, L., 2016. Nominal Group Technique: An accessible and interactive method for conceptualizing the sexual self-advocacy of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Qualitative Social Work, 15(2), pp.175-189.

Shapiro, J.P., 1994. No pity: People with disabilities forging a new civil rights movement. Three Rivers Press,pp. 184-236

Stein, M.A., 2017. Disability human rights. In Nussbaum and Law (pp. 3-49). Routledge.

Werner, S. and Shulman, C., 2015. Does type of disability make a difference in affiliate stigma among family caregivers of individuals with autism, intellectual disability or physical disability?. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 59(3), pp.272-283.