EEX 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: World Health Organization, Self-Determination

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Education - Special Education, School Psychology and Early Childhood Studies
• Course: EEX 2000
• Professor: Penny Cox

Document Summary

To be considered disabled you have to have some combination of the three words. Activity limitation means they cannot do what other can at the same level. Participations restrictions refers to different elements that may also play a role. It has to limit one of those two disabilities. They have a record of having that type of impairment. The last one is more difficult because they don"t want to discriminate. Some people look like they have a disability that they don"t actually have. Moral model- caused by wrongs that they have committed. They identify everything about the person that seems to be inferior. They diagnose the problem and after the diagnosis they begin treatment to get rid of the problem. 5 hour retarded they were only unusual in school. They say, what"s wrong with the environment? adjust the environment and some people may not even be recognized as disabled anymore. Change instruction to adapt to the needs of the observer.