DISABILITY 101:

Increasing Disability
Awareness and
Sensitivity

I. Understanding Disability
Pre-test Survey
1. Do you have disability?
Yes No
2. Do you know someone with a disability?
Yes No
3. What is the meaning of disability? ( choose one)
a. Unable to complete life activities in a
certain way
b. Can be physical
c. Can be invisible ( you cannot see it just by
looking
at someone)
d. all of the above
e. Only a and b

4. People with disabilities ( choose all that

apply)
a. Always depend on other people to
take
care of them
b. Live successful and independent
lives
c. Are nice, but not very smart
d. Dont have a lots of friends
e. Should be treated like everyone else

5. Which of the following are examples of

disabilities? ( choose one)
a. When letter appear jumbled, for
example read looks like raed
b. Losing all or part of your hearing
c. A brain disorder causing a person to
back out or have a seizures
d. Both a and b
e. All of the above

6. Choose the statement that is NOT true

about
disability
a. Many people have some type of
disability
b. There are actors, professional, athletes
and inventors with disabilities
c. You can always tell when someone has a
disability
d. It is ok to have a disability
e. Certain words about disability are more
negative than others

7. Choose the sentence that discusses the

person with disability in the most appropriate
way.
a. The blind guy is in the wheel chair
b. The guy confined to the wheelchair
suffers from blindness is paraplegic
c. Jim uses a wheelchair and he is blind
d. None of the above.

Basic Disability Information:

People with disabilities are people like everyone else.
People with disabilities arent always treated fairly
and kindly.
People with disabilities have the rights to access their
communities but often face prejudice and physical
barriers.
Everyone will encounter disability at some point in
their life.
Many people acquire a disability at some point in their
life.

Number of PWDs in
the Philippines.
NSO 2010 Census of Population and
Housing

About 16 per thousand have disability

Population
PWDs
% of PWDs

2010
92.1Mn
1.443 Mn
1.57 %

2000
76 Mn
0.935 Mn
1.23 %

Breakdown of PWDs by age and

sex
Males 50.9 %
Age group

Females 49.1%
%

0-14
18.9
15-49
40.0
50-64
19.0
65 and over
22.1

PWD
Estimate
DSWD Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino (CCT)
2011
HH Surveyed
4,446,649
100.00%
HH with PWDs
302,421
6.77
HH with Deaf27,972 0.63
HH with Blind
53,034 1.19
HH with Speech 28,259 0.63
Comm. Disorder
HH with Ortho
41,551 0.63
HH with Intellect 28,610 0.93
HH with other dis
77,599
1.74

UN Convention on Rights of
Persons with Disabilities
(UNCRPD) 2006

Existing Laws not fully harmonized with CRPD

- Magna Carta (RA 7277)
PWD definition based on medical and
functional model
Discrimination in employment,
transportation, public services
Accessibility Law ( BP 344)
* Addresses only built environment

CPRD Implementation
On children with disabilities

97 % not reached by public school system

DepEd zero rejection policy
On health
- No health care insurance
_ No rehabilitation services
_ 20% discount on medicines/medical
services

CPRD Implementation
On employment of PWDs
5% of position reserved for PWDs
10% of govt required goods/services from
coops and self help DPOs
Uncoordinated efforts to provide
employment
PWDs in valuable employment
Social Insurance- disability benefits and
pension
- for employment/acquired disability while
working

Education of children and

youth with disabilities

According to DepEd:
5.49 Mn CSN or
13 % of children population

* Enrollment 2012
Elementary
High School
200,000
8,443
(90,000 gifted)

Issues in Education Education of

CWDs
1.

Access to schooling issues

a. economic considerations
b. socio-economic realities
c. school-facilities
d. retention issues
e. learning with achievement

II. Breaking Down

Stereotype
BRIAN FUJIYAMA was
born with cerebral palsy.
Growing up, he says he
dreamed of playing for the
Warrior football team, but
focused instead on
academics. While
pursuing his graduate
studies and mentoring
other students with
severe disabilities, he was
appointed graduate
assistant coach by Jones.

Ben Stiller
* Actor
Listed number 28
in Forbes
Magazines
Celebrity 100 of
2007

Ben Stiller has a

disability

Mood Disorder

Bethany Hamilton
Surfer
In, 2004, Bethany
won ESPY Award for
the Best Comeback
Athlete of the Year
She has a Physical
Disability
Bethany Hamilton
lost her left arm in a
shark attack

Stevie Wonder Musician

I Just Call to Say I

Love You is
Motowns biggest
selling single ever in
UK
Stevie Wonder has a
disability
Visual Impairment
Stevie also lost his
sense of smell due
to being in a car
crash in 1973

Christopher
Reeve
Actor, director,
producer, and writer
Most famous for his
role as
Clark/Kent/Superman
Reeve has a disability
Paraplegia
He was paralyzed in a
horse-riding accident

David
Beckham

Professional soccer
player
He is the first
Englishman to score
in three separate
World Cup
tournaments
He has an
Ataxaphobia
Fear of disorder or
untidiness

Foxy
Brown

Rapper
At age 16, this
American rapper
sold a million copies
of her song Ill Na
na
Brown experienced
sudden sensoryneural hearing
loss in both ears
After the surgery
she recovered her
hearing and
continues to work as
a music artist

Daniel
Radcliffe

Actor
Starred in Harry
Potter films
In 1997, he was
considered the
richest teenager in
Britain.
Radcliffe has a
disabilityDyspraxia
Causes difficulty in
speech and
movement( muscle
coordination)

Albert
Einstein
Scientist
Won the Nobel Prize
for Physics in 1921
He has speech
difficulties made
learning difficult for
Einstein.
Hi did not speak until
age of 3
It was very hard for
him to express himself
through writing

Tiger
Woods
Professional golfer
He is ranked as the
number 1 golfer in
the world
He stuttered as a
child
Stuttering is
considered a
speech disorder

Jessica
Alba
Actress
She is developing her
own videogames
called X-Game
Sports, which
launched on mobile
phone in Korea
She has Obsessive
Compulsive
Disorder

Tom
Cruise
Actor
Has been
nominated for 3,
SAG, Oscar, and 7
Golden Globe
Awards
He has dyslexiatypes of learning
disability

Michael
Phelps
Olympic swimmer
He won 8 gold
medals, first time in
the history of
Olympics, in 2008
Beijing Olympics and
broke 7 world records
He has ADHD stands
for Attention Deficit
Hyperactivity Disorder

III. The power of Words

Words can make you feel a certain
way. The words you use can affect
how other people feel and how you
act towards them. The positive
words can help you treat others in
a more respectful way, YOU HAVE
THE POWER TO CHOOSE HOW
YOU USE WORDS

IMPOSSIBLE I-M- POSSIBLE

When ever someone tells you something to
impossible, remember it is spelled
I- M(am) Possible
DISABILITY
When ever you see disability, there is also
ability. There is always ABILITY within
DISABILITY.

IV. People First Language

Say
1.People with disabilities
2. He has a cognitive disability/diagnosis
3. She has a developmental delay
Instead of..
1.The handicapped or disabled
2. Hes mentally retarded
3. Shes developmental delay

Lets try it
Jackie

Is

who

uses

she

has

is

crippled

talented

studen
t
a
wheelchair becaus
e
paraplegia handicapped confine
d
restricted

lazy

looser

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s

friend

who

has

visual

impairment

through

the

dark

hallway suffers

from

avoids

in

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to help

unable

It is important that we instill in our

society an awareness of disability and
continues to promote sensitivity to
disability issues.
Educating the society to understand
people with disabilities are people like
everyone else can shift negative
perceptions of disability towards
acceptance and respect.

I will also an avenue for us to

promote disability awareness and
gender sensitivity.
Through this the society will be able
to understand disability and see it
none disability.
It turn, as they become more
sensitive and aware of disability
issues, they can create a change in
perspective in the world around them.

God put them in a

different package
but still they are
amazing.

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