Children with Disabilities

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Introduction
Disability has been seen as a major blow many families and has become wound to most of them.
Disability has been viewed as a weakness due to inability to function as expected in society.
People with disability are viewed as dependent and this makes them lacks recognition and
identity in the society. Moreover, a family with disabilities has been as an outcast and has led to
their discrimination and denial of their human rights. In this case, I will discuss and focus on the
issues faced by children living with disability, the society perception and measures the
government is taking to ensure people with disabilities are not discriminated.Disability is the
condition or injury that hinders an individual from functioning normally, and carries out normal
duties that other people do. Children with disabilities normally have a hard time when growing
up without understanding why they cannot do certain things like playing with other children and
participating in some group and events activities.
There are different angle by which disability is viewed. Biomedical perspective view disability
as an illness of body inability to function as expected. In this view disability is a condition that
can be treated or need the help of medical assistance. Philanthropic perspective views disability
as people who need help from others and have no control over their disability. They don’t view
disable persons as patients but undermine their self-image, dependent on economic climate and
viewed as ministering angels. Social perspective view disability as people with no ability to
participate in social activities and practices. In this view disable people are stigmatized or
marginalized and discriminated group. They view them as spectators and not participants. Their
work is viewed as a way of normalizing their condition to conform to social norms. People with
disability are viewed as contributing to social cost and contributing nothing to the economy.
They cannot be competitive in the job market thus are termed as a social burden to the economy.

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On social politic, disability problems find their root on politic and can be solved on the political
point of view. Disability is the connection between individual, physical and social environment
and cannot be understood in isolation from social environment and the world that create
limitations experienced by the disables. This perspective focuses on understanding the individual
abilities and views but not the views of the experts. It also looks into promoting and improving
the conducive environment for the disabled. This perspective makes people with disability
understand that disability is normal. It focuses on ways of improving their livelihood and
removing barriers in which the world think of the disabled people. It also promotes the society in
understanding the values of individual rights and from creating barriers that promote disabilities
(Goodley, Hughes and Davis, 2012).
In the study case we find that, People with disabilities develop lots of anger and frustration
throughout their day to day life. Watching other people do things that they cannot do due to their
condition makes them feel so frustrated and left out. This build up anger makes them direct it to
other people. People don’t understand why to disable people are sometimes so frustrated. They
feel robbed part of their life since they cannot enjoy right and access of services due to their
condition. It makes them regret and bother their parents or their caregiver and may sometime
want to lead them out of the state of disability. Pent up anger can be damaging to children with
disability. According to Holtz, T.(2006), anger can lead to anxiety disorder, high blood pressure,
muscle spasm, depression and eating disorders to people living with disabilities. Research shows
that people living with disabilities have a higher percentage of stress than normal people
(Tessman 2016, p. 67).
Parents with disabled children are always depressed and this reflects much on their disabled
children. The research indicates that more than 41% of the mother with disabled children suffers