Writing Homework Help

Purpose

This activity will provide you with the opportunity to take a close look at the treatment of individuals with disabilities inside their care facility. You will examine how disability rights were upheld or denied at this facility. You will compare and contrast the treatment of these individuals and the other residents of the facility and analyze how it changed over time.

Skills

The purpose of this activity is to help you practice the following skills that are essential to your success in this course / in school / in this field / in professional life beyond school:

• MLO #2.1: Discuss the evolution of the treatment of people with disabilities in western society from the Victorian era to present.
• MLO #2.3: Explain and analyze legal mandates requiring reasonable accommodations needed by people with disabilities in daily living, the workplace, public services, public accommodations and education.

Knowledge

This activity will also help you to become familiar with the following important content knowledge in this discipline:

Course Objective 2: Analyze issues of social justice relating to disability and the global growth of legal and civil rights of individuals with disabilities domestically and internationally.

Tasks

1. Listen to the following podcast (approx. 25-minutes): No Place Like Home (Links to an external site.)

2. Submit a written response to the following questions: Given what you have learned this semester about disability rights, how do you feel about what happened in Carville? Were you surprised by anything you learned in the Podcast? Describe how disability rights were upheld or denied at this facility. Compare and contrast the treatment of these individuals and the other residents of the facility. Provide and analysis of how their treatment changed over time.