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Assignment on Family Situations

   

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LIVING WITHDISABILITY
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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3Family Situations.........................................................................................................................3Attitude of different people playing an important role in their lives...........................................4Different environment they lived in.............................................................................................5Society in which they are brought up and are living in...............................................................6Contemporary cultural perceptions with the label intellectual disability....................................6REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
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INTRODUCTIONThe life of a disabled individual may vary based upon the environment in which the personis living. The report discusses regarding two individuals, who have been able to live in totallydifferent environment with completely varied life experience. The story of a female, Jill, will bediscussed in the project that was born with brain damage. The transition of two environmentswill effectively be discussed in the report. It will then discuss the condition of a male individualNorm, who was born with Down syndrome and his life situation in which he lived. Family SituationsIn first documentary, it is identified that the patient named Norman Lewellyn was born inthe family of Young entrepreneur named Charles Lewellyn who is the former owner of WandlynInns. He was born in Sept 1949 in to the family of Entrepreneur in the New Brunswick, Canada.The patient was born with a major disease of down syndrome and at the age of 7, he was sent tothe fast track supervision by his parents for treatment. At that time, the situation of their familywas not critical and due to influence of some people in society, Norman's parents madearrangements to send him in special school (Palomaki & et.al. 2012). He was having 3 brothersand a sister, who was adopted by her parents. During that era, the children like him used to notlive above the age of 15 years. Like other children, Norm also spent his childhood with parentsbut later he was put in to the foster care. Down syndrome is considered as very notorious disease or psychological disorder. It is acondition in which a child is born with an extra copy of its 21st syndrome. This usually causesphysical and mental development delays and disabilities (Down syndrome, (2017). Study providean understanding that Norman faced both physical and mental disabilities due to which he had togo through many problems in his life but her sister Karen provided care and support to improvehis conditions. Jill is a girl in the documentary who was born with brain damage. She has a younger sister,father and mother in her home. She was transferred to a care home which meant for people withdisability at the age of 8 as they were not able to fulfil her different requirements. Although shewas able to gain adequate amount of love and care, after leaving her to the care home, there areonly few incidents mentioned when she was actually visited by her family. Soon after Jill’stransfer to care home, her parents got divorced and concern towards her got reduced. Her motherand sister stated that if she had lived with them and not shifted to the care home, her condition3
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