Description
Provides an excellent orientation to the disability field. Useful with new staff, board, or family members. It reviews the issues with labeling, language, and the various types of disabilities and their associated conditions. Covers developmental landmarks and a review of the historic challenges people with disabilities have faced, from institutionalization to the growth of community services and self-determination.
Credit Hours: 2
- Problems with Labels
- Everyone Has Abilities
- Developmental Milestones: Types of Disabilities
- Cerebral Palsy
- Spina Bifida
- Autism
- Intellectual Disabilities
- Epilepsy
- Specific Learning Disabilities
- Head Injury
- Mental Illness
- Hearing, Vision and Other Disabilities
- Challenges
- Advocacy
