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Opening Video ... Training for Individuals who Transport People with Disabilities

Channel: People & Blogs
Uploaded: January 10, 2007 at 12:37 pm
Author: cguhr

Length: 00:06:50
Rating: 4.25
Views: 6243

Tags: Disability Training Paratransit Etiquette

Video Comments:
thegigm (July 2, 2008 at 10:47 pm)
"treat all people, as you'd like to be treated!

remember you`re transporting someone`s mom or dad" bull, not all disabled ppl are old anouth to have kids.
thegigm (June 26, 2008 at 1:50 pm)
"a person with as disability is a person" really? not in the UK, you should hear some of the verbal abuse done to diabetics like me,
97925509 (February 22, 2008 at 7:40 pm)
I work with disabled people and I I find "Commandment 8 - Place yourself at eye level when speaking to someone in a wheelchair" (among others) very condescending

Shall we start patting people in chairs on the head too?

I'm sorry, but many of the people I have met with a disability want to be treated no differently than others, and therefore do not need their own set of rules describing how to treat them.

Do you have your own commandments? I certainly dont.
rnb8220 (November 24, 2007 at 12:55 am)
some good points but what is so wrong in pointing out that there is a disability. I'm saying this as a person with a physical disability. I am what I am. That's it. Some good points all around but some of it is the language of disabled as disadvantaged, charity cases but overall pretty good work. Was all that tail end music from "Wicked"?

I should see that play someday.
RodolfoManfredi (October 6, 2007 at 2:47 pm)
Right!Respect and dignity for all!!!!!
getmobilized (April 16, 2007 at 7:02 am)
As mentioned, "Handicap" comes from a British bartering game called "Hand-in-Cap" which was shortened to "Handicap", because it involved people taking things out of a mutual pot, which was often a hat. This game was all about trade disadvantages, so it was later adopted by horse racing, where a "handicap" meant putting extra weight upon a particularly strong horse to "even the odds".

Regardless of what origin you use, it is still pretty condescending and horrible.
lantusappreciation (March 11, 2007 at 9:41 pm)
I don't like person first language. I'm an autistic diabetic, like I'm a Jewish student. I'm not a person with autism and diabetes unless I'm a person who is Jewish and studies.
Otherwise, I like this video.
silentmiaow (January 14, 2007 at 5:57 pm)
That's not the origin of handicapped.
cguhr (January 16, 2007 at 7:03 am)
As you will note, the video is an opener to a training session that is followed by a facilitated discussion wrapping around our need to label and find reasons to justify labeling "people". In this subsequent training we do mention the myth(s) associated with the term Handicap and even Oxford's word origin involving gambling and carrying an "undo burden" ...
Gamersvikes (August 7, 2007 at 2:41 pm)
The game handicap came after hand in cap practices of old England. The first handicap permits were given to people with disabilities in order to allow them to beg on the streets. They were then called handicaps.

The use of handicap for games and sports came later.