Interacting with people with disabilities
Interaction with people with disabilities is an unfamiliar and sometimes threatening experience for many people. Avoidance behaviour can occur. Training can help staff deal with these issues.
List of
Common Ways People with a Disability are viewed and treated
Unfortunately, and inaccurately, people with disabilities are often viewed as
Expectations of People with a Disability
his section covers some of the general issues that people with disabilities face every day and also some areas that a person with a disability would expect a librarian to have some knowledge about when approached about library facilities and services.
A Way with Words for Disability
It is important to maintain natural language when interacting with people with disabilities. Some common usages are encouraged by the World Health Organization. Useful short definitions are:
Eye safety and prevention of visual disability
Children and adolescents account for a
disproportionate share of ocular injuries. The majority of these injuries are related to
unsupervised and dangerous activities.
These injuries can be devastating and a
significant cause of visual impairment in
most of these children.
People with hearing impairments
These other conditions can result in significant additional handicaps to a hearing handicap. Because hearing impairment varies so greatly, it is not possible to generalise about interacting with people with significant hearing impairment and it is not possible
People with print disabilities
These conditions can result in significant additional handicaps to a print handicap. Because they vary so greatly, it is not possible to make general statements about interaction with people experiencing them
Person With Psychiatric Disability
symptoms such as disordered thoughts, hallucinations and loss of contact with reality can make it difficult for a person to concentrate, process information, solve problems, make judgements or follow instructions
Peoples with an intellectual disability
An intellectual disability should not be confused with a psychiatric disability or mental illness, although a person with an intellectual disability may also have a psychiatric disability.
Prevention of physically challenged in tamilnadu
Many physical disabilities do not have cure. Also, scientist do not know causes for many physical disabilities. But, there are some things that can be done to prevent some physical disabilities. Here are some ways that people can try to prevent having physical disabilities.