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    Ability and Disability As Dimensions of Diversity

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    This document discusses ability, disability, and diversity. It defines ability as possessing the skills to do something, disability as impairments that limit activities, and diversity as encompassing individuals' unique traits. It notes that while laws promote diversity and inclusion, discrimination still occurs based on attributes like gender, race, religion, and ability. However, embracing diversity brings benefits like creativity and innovative problem-solving. Recognizing diversity as natural and integral to society is important for policies, schools, and communities to be inclusive of all.

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    This document discusses ability, disability, and diversity. It defines ability as possessing the skills to do something, disability as impairments that limit activities, and diversity as encompassing individuals' unique traits. It notes that while laws promote diversity and inclusion, discrimination still occurs based on attributes like gender, race, religion, and ability. However, embracing diversity brings benefits like creativity and innovative problem-solving. Recognizing diversity as natural and integral to society is important for policies, schools, and communities to be inclusive of all.

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    This document discusses ability, disability, and diversity. It defines ability as possessing the skills to do something, disability as impairments that limit activities, and diversity as encompassing individuals' unique traits. It notes that while laws promote diversity and inclusion, discrimination still occurs based on attributes like gender, race, religion, and ability. However, embracing diversity brings benefits like creativity and innovative problem-solving. Recognizing diversity as natural and integral to society is important for policies, schools, and communities to be inclusive of all.

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    ABILITY AND DISABILITY

    AS DIMENSIONS OF
    DIVERSITY
    DIVERSITY
    covers the limitless domains of an individual’s unique
    characteristics, experiences, and capabilities. It
    encompasses respect and tolerance of differences that
    enables a celebration of uniqueness.
    ABILITY

    refers to the possession of the qualities required to


    do something: necessary skill or competence, or
    power. (English Collins Dictionary)
    DISABILITY
    the umbrella term for impairments, activity limitations, and participation
    restrictions, referring to the negative aspects of the interaction between
    an individual (with a health condition) and that individual's contextual
    factors (environmental and personal factors). (World Health Organization
    (WHO n.d)
    The American Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) "defines a person with a disability
    as a person who has physical or mental impairment that substantially limits
    one or more major life activity. This includes people who have a record of
    such an impairment, even if they do not currently have a disability. It also
    includes individuals who do not have a disability but are regarded as having a
    disability.”
    DISABILITY
    “Disabilities may affect one's senses or one's mobility; they may be static or
    progressive, congenital or acquired, formal (affecting the shape of the
    body) or functional, visible or invisible" (Couser 2005).
    A person's disability makes him/her a unique individual who is, at times, shunned from
    places and activities. They have to be acknowledged as part of the spectrum of diversity.
    They have to be recognized as human beings who should not be discriminated against, but
    rather understood, accepted, and tolerated. They have to be accorded their rights.
    Disabilities have to be seen as a natural part of life and a natural part of diversity. People
    with disabilities have to be perceived and accepted as people with distinct abilities. They
    have to identify themselves as having disabilities so that the world can accept them and
    create avenues for them to live in.
    THE DILEMMA
    OF DIVERSITY
    DICRIMINATION
    In this age of fast-paced development where diversity plays a unique role,
    there are still challenges that confront a lot of people who have been
    identified as "different."

    Discrimination issues around race, gender, age, and intellect still abound in
    spite of charters, laws, and policies that uphold diversity.
    DICRIMINATION
    In some workplaces, women and people of color are still discriminated against and not
    given positions in management or administration.
    People of a certain race are stereotyped to be of a specific character. A number of
    times, Muslims have been taken aside in immigration and interrogated.
    Non-married and same-sex couples are still not accepted in some parts of the world.
    In some schools, children with special needs are shunned with the reason that they
    are not ready for school yet or are not suited for the school. Children from
    indigenous groups have to go through an educational system that does not consider
    their ethnic background, needs, and values.
    In more workplaces, there are systems and processes put into place to
    intentionally promote diversity.

    Diverse ways of thinking and doing things bring in creativity and


    productivity. Innovative thinking and collaboration are encouraged when
    different people work to come up with solutions to problems or
    challenges.
    In schools, diversity is the best way to teach what it means to be tolerant and
    respectful of each other's differences.

    In government, the acknowledgment that diversity is an integral component of


    community equates to laws and policies being passed to look out for the welfare of
    people of diverse cultures and backgrounds.

    Diversity, therefore, is an integral component of


    life and of living.
    Activity: Venn Diagram of Similarities and Differences

    Directions
    Pick a classmate you do not fully know. Take turns
    discussing different things about each other.
    Complete the Venn diagram below by drawing the
    things that make you different (draw in the outer
    circles) and make you two similar (inner circle).
    Count the number of things that make you the
    same and make you different from each other.

    Share to the class ways to show your appreciation


    of differences/diversity.

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