Six Disability Questions used by the CDC and the Census Bureau to compile data about disabilities.
They are
1. Are you deaf, or do you have serious difficulty hearing?
a. ____ Yes
b. ____ No
2. Are you blind, or do you have serious difficulty seeing, even when wearing glasses?
a. ____ Yes
b. ____ No
3. Because of a physical, mental, or emotional condition, do you have serious difficulty concentrating, remembering, or making decisions? (5 years old or older)
a. ____ Yes
b. ____ No
4. Do you have serious difficulty walking or climbing stairs? (5 years old or older)
a. ____ Yes
b. ____ No
5. Do you have difficulty dressing or bathing? (5 years old or older)
a. ____ Yes
b. ____ No
6. Because of a physical, mental, or emotional condition, do you have difficulty doing errands alone such as visiting a doctor’s office or shopping? (15 years old or older)
a. ____ Yes
b. ____ No
Since the establishment of these data collection standards, the six-item set of disability questions has been included in several population surveys to assess health status of people with disabilities. A standardized data collection allows for comparison of people with and without disabilities in relation to a number of demographic, health, and social characteristics. Such standardized data collection can help to:
Identify areas of health that need improvement through program efforts; Understand the health risks experienced by people with disabilities; and
Inform programs about including people with disabilities. (Taken from the CDC, https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/disabilityandhealth/datasets.htm
You might find this article of interest, although it is not required. Review of Changes to the Measurement of Disability in the 2008 American Community Survey .pdf.
As mentioned in the page prior, there are two broad categories here. One is "Mobility", the other is "Hearing", which includes speech and other communication disorders. Within each of those two broad categories, there are smaller areas of focus, or subcategories. For example, under "Mobility" you will see "Washington State" and "Employment", under "Hearing" you will see "Definitions", "Workplace/Interpersonal Communication" and "Organizations/Agencies".
Within each of these subcategories, pick at least one site to delve into. You can base this on your interests and curiosity. Explore the sites and find something that will help others to increase their understanding of mobility and/or hearing impairments. We could probably spend the entire quarter just looking at the topic areas in these coming weeks. Instead, we will take a quick tour based on these websites.
Explore away!
Please watch at least one of the videos on the Disability Mobility Initiative page below. The Disability Mobility Initiative, "wants to raise awareness about how people without access to cars navigate to essential services in our communities. We’ve interviewed people from every legislative district in our state who rely on transit, paratransit, walking, biking, rolling or community rides to get where we need to go. Read our stories and our research paper at www.dismobility.com"
You can access their YouTube channel here and travel the streets along with a person with a mobility impairment and see the parts of the city from their perspective.
Disability Mobility Initiative - YouTube (Choose at least one video here.)
This is another video that focuses on navigating the environment with a wheelchair.
How to Promote Inclusion: Interview with Luticha Doucette | PBS LearningMedia
To start off, please watch the Kanopy video that is linked here. It provides a great introduction to deaf culture as well as a bit about some of the ways that ASL (American Sign Language) has evolved. ASL - Learn Deaf Culture, History & CODA | Kanopy
The videos below are optional for your watching.
The first video is helpful to learn about communication disorders. The second and third videos are informative and less formal, while offering perspectives from people who experience deafness. Both the second and the third videos are part of collections of videos based within deaf culture. Feel free to poke around in those sites to find other videos to consider.