Many students these days ride buses to transport them to and from school. Elementary schools, middle schools, and high schools have taking the bus as an option to get to school. There are also buses for transportation of children and teenagers with disabilities. The buses for disabled children need to stay an option for transportation.
If there is a child in a wheelchair, who uses a walker, or has any physical disability, it may be difficult for them to load into the car. “…whose symptoms or travel limitations can make it extremely challenging for their parents to get them to school using other methods of transportation.” (DELL'ANTONIA). How long does it take to get a child in a wheelchair into a car, compared to on a bus? In the car, you have to pick the child up from the wheelchair, lift the child up and into their seat, and get the wheelchair in the trunk. To put the wheelchair in the trunk, you usually need to take it apart. Some disabled children ride the same bus as their peers, while others ride special buses which are made specifically for children with any form of disabilities. The specifically made buses have a lift, to get the child up. Due to the lift, a bus is much more convenient than a car because it is easier and faster. The child doesn’t need to be taken out of their wheelchair which saves a lot of time. As Robert Bergdorf Jr. said, “In very fundamental ways, it has changed the basic societal perception and expectations of the role of people with disabilities in America, and of the country’s obligation to make accommodations to enable the fullest practicable participation of this segment of the population,” (HUNT). Having public transportation available for disabled children has made it easier for everybody who i...
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ZEMECKIS, ROBERT, dir. Forrest Gump. Perf. TOP HANKS. Paramount , 1994. Film. 23 Nov 2013.
It is hard to live with disability, because everyday things become a challenge. U.S. Census Bureau report from 2008 states that 3.3 million non-institutionalized Americans over age 15 years use wheelchairs. The reason why there are so many people with disabilities is that U.S. spent decades at war. This is why mobility industry is rethinking the products it provides to support a growing demographic. Vantage Mobility International (VMI) and Braun Ability are two leading industry players that spent decades converting wheelchair vans from companies such as Chrysler , Toyota , and Honda into wheelchair-accessible modes of transportation.
...ing little room for imagination. It shows the negative effects that people will go through when under the thumb of society, it shows the importance of each, individual person being equal despite their variance. The Short Bus, is an important mark in Human Rights history; it is important because it accounts for people, people who have had very little representation prior and people who can now begin believing that their disability isn’t the end of who they are and can become. In relation to Human Rights, this is just another violation to peoples basic life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness that has guided this country for many years; it is a discrimination that needs to end and a discrimination that almost everyone has participated in at one point in their life.
Forrest Gump. Dir. Robert Zemeckis. Screenplay by Eric Roth. Perf. Tom Hanks and Mykelti Williamson. Paramount, 1994. Film.
‘“Now it’s my turn to make it better for generations that come after, which is why I’ve become, involved in disabilities issues”’ (Open University, 2016a).
...here they need to go. This makes kids late, the times ranging from forty five minutes to two hours, if the bus comes at all. All of these are major concerns, the interference with summer plans, the length of our summer, and the conditions of the roads, are significant concerns.
“Using Disability Studies Theory to Change Disability Services: A Case Study in Student Activism” outlines Syracuse University struggles with disability-related topics. Some of the university’s students formed a committee called Beyond Compliance Coordinating Committee to be the voice for the disabled students. The article follows their journey in struggles with implementing handicap-accessible areas and study material for a student that was blind (Cory, White, & Stuckey, 2010). This article reminds me of a close friend from my old neighborhood. He got into a really bad car accident that left him paralyzed from the waist down. After the accident some friends and I helped his parent modify their home to accommodate for his wheelchair. When tragic accidents like that help it really makes you put thing into perspective.
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Philadelphia. Dir. Jonathan Demme. By Ron Nyswanger. Perf. Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Antonio Banderas, and Joanne Woodward. TriStar Pictures, 1993. Youtube Crackle.
If everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedom that is set forth in the Declaration, disabled people should not be robbed of their rights. However, they are still devalued from conducting common tasks which puts them at the bottom of the priority list as an employee and even so as a friend. In search to solve this problem, according to “The Disabled” by Bender, D. on July 26, 1990, President G...
Shea, Virginia, Phyllis Payne, and Sandy Evans. "School Bells and Buses in Fairfax: A Brief History of Changes in School Days and Transportation for Students." 2007. Web. 15 Mar. 2014.
I did not have to get many groceries, so I was able to fit them all in a basket and hold it in my lap. Fortunately, all the items I needed were within my reach and I didn’t need to ask for assistance. I did have to use both hands to propel the wheelchair, and therefore, I wasn’t able to carry as much from place to place. This could have made grocery shopping more challenging if I needed to get a lot of groceries and didn’t have someone to help me. When I was in public, I was really aware of what others thought of me. I was worried they would judge me and think I was either being lazy or trying to get attention. Reflecting on myself, I would probably think the same thing. I sometimes find myself wondering if a person I see really needs their wheelchair or if they are just too lazy to get up and walk, especially if that person is obese. In my mind, they could use the extra physical activity. Being in the wheelchair, it is already degrading and humiliating to seem so helpless, let alone seeing people giving you disapproving looks or gawking. I have much more respect now for wheelchair bound individuals, because in all honesty it is physically and mentally
Ultimately this paper will describe the various ways persons with disabilities continue to encounter several obstacles in their daily lives.
Along with many other topics of special education, the topic of inclusion has been surrounded by uncertainty and controversy for as long as the concept has been around.
While these three authors have different reasons to write their essays, be it media unfairness, ignorance, or ethical disputes, they all share a basic principle: The disabled are not viewed by the public as “normal people,” and they are unfairly cast away from the public eye. The disabled have the same capacity to love, desire and hurt as any other human being, and deserve all of the rights and privileges that we can offer them. They should be able to enter the same buildings, have representation in the media, and certainly be allowed the right to live.