Class one Disabilities. :
1. Explain the social model of assessment. How can you use this model even if you are working in a health care facility or other setting that requires an impairment-based assessment or any assessment that ignores societal barriers?
2. Compare the following two assessments in terms of descriptions of disability, impairment and function:
1)Mr. Anderson is an African-American male, age 19, with an average IQ, who was severely injured in a motorcycle accident. Mr. Anderson never completed high school. His injury resulted in partial paralysis of both his legs and arms. He has limited hand movement. Mr. Anderson suffers chronic depression, for which he takes medication.
Mr. Anderson is severely limited in his mobility. He is confined to a wheelchair and totally dependent on attendants or family members to prepare his food, bathe him, attend to his bowel program, and so on.
His family has been uncooperative in his rehabilitation. They missed appointments. They did not follow through on suggestions to make the apartment more accessible. Mr. Anderson appears to have limited ambition toward education or employment. He rarely gets out in the community, other than in his immediate neighborhood. He does not take advantage of community resources made available to him.
2)Mr. Anderson is a 19-year-old African American male with partial paralysis from a motorcycle accident who lives with his mother and his younger brother in a housing project. Several of his relatives live in the same project and they stop in frequently to visit. His family is very close. They agreed that he will stay with them rather than be institutionalized or live on his own. Mr. Anderson has trained his family to provide his attendant care under his supervision. Attendants from a local agency also provide personal care. With assistive devices, he is able to feed himself and transfer between bed and wheelchair. His emotional status has improved significantly since he began using antidepressants.
Mr. Anderson gets along well in the neighborhood, using a wheelchair for community mobility. The apartment building is wheelchair accessible; however, he lacks financial resources to make his bathroom completely accessible. He uses a portable commode chair as a temporary measure. He visits other family members frequently. He gets out into the neighborhood quite often, and various store owners watch out for him.
Mr. Anderson visits the local Radio Shack, where Ralph Henderson, the owner, takes time to show him how to use a computer on display. Mr. Anderson is giving Ralph $10 a week towards the purchase of a computer. Mr. Anderson has talked about obtaining a GED and is thinking about going to school to learn computer programming.
What assumptions are being made in the first assessment? What are the assumptions in the second assessment? What things are left out of the first assessment? What components are missing in the second assessment? Which assessment more accurately reflects the perceptions others have of Mr. Anderson? Why?
Sources:Mackelprang, R., & Salsgiver R. (2015). Disability: A diversity model approach in human service practice (3rd). Oxford University Press. eText
2nd Class:Working wih groups
Read the “city officials” case at the beginning of chapter 9 and select two of the “Questions for Review” below to respond to. Include the text of the questions in your post.
City Officials Case
- How critical was the O’Fallon group’s thinking? What examples in the story lead you to that conclusion?
- Is there any evidence that the O’Fallon group’s problem-solving process experienced polarization or groupthink?
source: Galanes & Adams. (2019). Effective group discussion: Theory and practice (15th ed.). McGraw Hill. eText
3rd class: COMM
- When you think about the thousands of interactions you’ve had over your lifetime, which nonverbal elements have you found the most persuasive on/to you? Which nonverbal communication traits do you wish you were able to use more successfully in your life?
- source: Communication Between Cultures. [Columbia College]. Retrieved from https://ccis.vitalsource.com/#/books/9781337521758/
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