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Disability Culture - The Paralympic Games

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJC6QVGyqgw

I chose to look into the Paralympic Games as my example of disability culture. In the link above, a video showing Basketball highlights at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, I believe the viewer can see the passion and love that the players have for the game. I believe the games show that physically disabled people live their lives to the extreme, and are just as able to compete at high levels of sport as non disabled athletes. I believe the Games also show the progressive attitude of non-disabled people towards the disabled community, as there is a lot of support for the games. 

Seminar Presentation (Poem)

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Special Educational Needs 

By: Janine Booth

You sit me on a chair that hurts
In a classroom full of noise and light
You put a pen in my wrong hand
And tell me that I have to write

You speak in terms that don't make sense
You write in symbols I can't see
You talk to everyone at once
You talk to everyone but me

To learn I need to move around
But you insist I'm statuesque
And all my mental strength's used up
On sitting silent at my desk

And when it all becomes too much
And I am screaming, you're frustrated
I'm sent home with a form that says
That I can not be educated