Question

Name two ways a person with a developmental delay could be discriminated against in society and how might you go about supporting this person to understand their rights around these issues?

Answer 1

Developmental disabilities are a group of conditions due to an impairment in physical, learning, language, or behavior areas. These conditions begin during the developmental period, may impact day-to-day functioning, and usually last throughout a person's lifetime.

Some examples of more common developmental delay include ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Cerebral Palsy, intellectual disabilities and vision impairment.

These people with developmental delay experience a discrimination from others. The following are some of the ways to discriminate them.

1. These people have an undeveloped mental ability, they sometimes behave like kids. The society make fun of them, by insulting them. Some show mercy towards these kind of people but some make fun of them.

2. The discrimination can be shown in many ways like

• Not having equal rights with others.
• No one gives an opportunity to work with others.
• Everyone make fun of them.

I might support these kind of people by making them aware and trying to change them understand things if there are mentally undeveloped.

I would try to motivate the physically undeveloped people to achieve their goals with any compromise.

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