Chat with AIExam 11: Social Work and Services for People With Disabilities
Today, the preferred terms used to define people with a disability are "retarded," "handicapped," and "disabled."
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_____ is a disease that affects the voluntary muscles (those controlled by one's will) in which nerve impulses are impaired, resulting in fatigue, weakness, and difficulties controlling muscles.
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Does the Americans with Disabilities Act actually help people with disabilities attain social and economic justice?
(82) VerifiedStudents' answers will vary.Although the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) has helped people with disabilities in some areas, questions must be raised about its effectiveness in others.The courts continue to address complaints filed concerning the ADA to clarify terms with various degrees of ambiguity.For example, employers and public agencies must make only "reasonable accommodation" for people with disabilities.The unemployment rate of people with disabilities significantly exceeds that of able-bodied people (ProQuest, 2014; U..Census Bureau, 2011).Of people with a disability, 20.% are employed; this contrasts with a 69.% employment rate for people without a disability (ProQuest, 2014).More people with a disability, about one-third, were employed in 1990 before the ADA was passed (Smolowe, 1995).Therefore, the battle for equal access and opportunity for people with disabilities has not been won.Much of the public attention to the act has focused on people with physical disabilities, many of whom require wheelchairs for transportation.Kopels (1995) states that the ADA will be successful only to the extent that these individuals with disabilities and those who advocate on their behalf learn about the ADA and use it as a means to ensure employment opportunities.
The _____ established a Library of Congress program that later formed the foundation for regional centers providing Braille and recorded materials to people with visual impairment.
(73) In the context of deinstitutionalization, the intent of _____ is to place people in the least restrictive setting possible.
(93) Cognitive disabilities include cerebral palsy and muscular dystrophy.
(79) A disease of the brain tissue in which the myelin sheath (the fatty material wrapped around and insulating the parts of nerve cells that conduct nerve impulses in the brain to other nerve cells) deteriorates, thereby causing varying degrees of muscular dysfunction, paralysis, and muscle tremors is called:
(71) Describe the four primary principles of the Self-Determination Movement.
(79) _____ is a disability involving problems in muscular control and coordination resulting from damage to the brain before it has matured, that is, before or during birth.
(79) In the context of a consumer-centered approach, _____ is the condition in which clients grant permission for a social worker to undertake an intervention process after the worker clearly notifies the client of all the facts, risks, and alternatives involved.
(80) The _____ gave people who are blind preference in getting jobs running vending operations on federal land.
(73) The treatment of people with developmental disabilities during the 1970s and early 1980s involved a(n):
(92) Which of the following is a blockage or hemorrhage of a blood vessel leading to the brain, causing an inadequate oxygen supply and often long-term impairment of sensation, movement, or functioning?
(74) In the context of the roles of social workers, _____ refers to the linkage of clients to needed resources.
(82) All of the following are attributes that characterize people with developmental disabilities except:
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