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Title: Disability as a Multicultural and Diversity Component


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Disability as a Multicultural and Diversity
Component
  • Shonda McLaughlin, PhD, CRC
  • John Hopkins University
  • November 1, 2006

2
What is Multiculturalism?
  • Sue, et. Al (1998) defines ten characteristics of
    multiculturalism
  • 1. values cultural pluralism and acknowledges our
    nation as a cultural mosaic rather than a melting
    pot.
  • 2. is about social justice, cultural democracy,
    and equity.
  • 3. is about helping all of us acquire the
    attitudes, knowledge, and skills needed to
    function effectively in a pluralism democratic
    society and interact with peoples from diversity
    background.

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  • 4. Transcends race, class, gender, and ethnicity.
    It also includes diversity in religion, national
    origin, sexual orientation, ability, and
    disability, age geographic origin.
  • 5. is about celebrating the realistic
    contributions and achievements of our and other
    cultures and involves our willingness to explore
    both the positive and negative aspects of out
    groups and other groups behavior over time.
  • 6. is essential component of analytical thinking
    and challenges us to study multiple perspectives,
    to develop multiple perspectives, and teach our
    children how to integrate broad and conflicting
    bodies of information to arrive at sound
    judgements.
  • 7. It recognizes treating everyone the same may
    deny equal access and opportunities, and that
    differential treatment is not necessarily
    preferential.

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  • 8. means change at the individual,
    organizational, and societal levels. It is an
    on-going and long-term process that requires
    commitment and hard work.
  • 9. may mean owning up to painful realities about
    oneself, our group, and our group society.
  • 10. is about achieving positive individual,
    community, and societal outcomes because it
    values inclusion, cooperation, and movement
    toward mutually shared goals.

5
Disability
  • What is it?

6
Websters definition
  • 1. A disabled condition
  • 2. That which disables, as an illness or injury
  • 3. A legal disqualification or incapacity
  • 4. Something that restricts limitation
    disadvantage

7
Images
  • What comes to mind when you hear the word
    disabled?
  • Define disability.
  • FDR
  • Athletic
  • Crippled
  • Supercrip
  • Inspiration
  • Not a Whole
  • Memorial
  • Whats the significance in the statute?

8
Language/Needs/Ideas
  • perpetuates common misconceptions about people
    with disabilities
  • Power does not equal to disability.
  • Political movement

9
Effective Multicultural Counseling (Sue Sue,
1990)
  • Movement from being culturally unaware to being
    aware and sensitive of his/her own cultural
    heritage and to valuing and respecting
    differences
  • Counselor awareness of his/her own values an
    biases and how those biases may affect culturally
    diverse persons with disabilities

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cont..
  • Developing and increasing the comfort level with
    difference that exist between themselves and
    persons being served in terms of race and beliefs
  • Sensitivity to circumstances that may dictate the
    referral of a culturally diverse individual with
    a disability to a member of his/her own race/
    culture
  • Acknowledgment and awareness of his/her own
    beliefs, attitudes, and feelings

11
Changing Views
  • Although there has been improvement, we, still,
    have ways to go.
  • Progressed from institutionalization
    rehabilitation
  • Eugenics
  • Veterans
  • Segregation

12
Implications
  • Consciously, add disability related issues into
    our conversations.
  • Do not be embarrassed of disability.
  • Own up to our responsibility to include people
    with disabilities, instead of excluding them.

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The point is...
  • We all have abilities
  • Many of us have disabilities
  • The focus is on the PERSON and their ABILITIES
  • And now, a word on ility
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