Disabilities Reflection by Claudia Vega

Claudia Vega

Professor Sinkoff

SPC1017

            Disabilities is such a broad term where people have so many misconceptions due to the excessive amount of information that there is floating around. When you ask someone, what is a disability, their minds automatically go to people with physical disabilities and this is something that needs to change. My group was working with Spinal Cord, Mobility and Impairment and Brain Disability. These disabilities were great to work hand in hand in because they were very flexible in terms of being able to find information to compare and contrast them to. There was so much information about these that it is impossible to get misinformed because so many well know doctors have dedicated their lives to finding new technology to make the lives of people with disabilities easier. In my opinion, doing this project was very eye-opening and not just to learn new things about each disability but I took a step further and did research on how people lived with a disability, what their lives looked like when doing things we might take for granted like grabbing a set of keys and going on a drive, or going to the beach, or even just walking down the stairs to grab a bottle of water. This project helped me see everything from a different perspective and I really liked that about this class. This project helped me share my newly acquired knowledge with my classmates and I think they enjoyed it as much as I did. This project was a bit more hectic than the last one just because the order of the PowerPoints were harder to arrange. Something I felt that could have been better was that is we were all just were able to correctly use Microsoft PowerPoint because it became very hectic at times with the audio recording. Other than some technical difficulties and some minor miscommunication, everything seemed fine.