POSITIVE CARE ENVIROMENTS

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POSITIVE CARE ENVIROMENTS   NOREEN MAKAYIRI Individual with specific needs I would like to focus on an individual with specific needs that is a person with a learning disability. On this essay I would like to discuss in great lengths some factors that can affect such a person especially in a community they are associated with. Firstly would to define what a person with a learning disability is, this is a lifelong disability that affects a person’s ability to learn, it has been noted that people with learning disability are not considered in the community yet they are part of it so let me point out a few rights which these people have. Despite the fact that they have a lifelong disability they have all the rights to everything that any other normal citizen has in the community. A lot of times they are treated as cast-always, sidelined and not given any chance to speak out their views and to be taken on board on things they would have suggested. We will note that in 1970 the education act made the right to education, a basic right for every child with a learning disability. In this way they do no feel cast away but fully participate in all that is done in the circular world. Many times these people might be taking long to grasp some concepts but the best bet on them will be to go according to their pace and the
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preferred methods of learning so that they can achieve the best out of their situation. Then in 1990 the community Care Act supported new housing choices and gave people with a learning disability the right to live in the community, in this way they are at par with any other people in the society. Their situation is noted but they are given what they deserve, that is they get all the benefits which any other person gets in the community so they are also, counted and mean a lot in the community. In 1995 the Disability Discrimination Act was the ...

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