Alicia's Disability Reflection

For our second presentation, we had to make a brochure, poster, and power point explaining all the different types of disabilities and some disorders that there are. I can honestly say that I never knew this much about all the disabilities that existed. This project informed me so much and it really opened my eyes towards this subject. I enjoyed researching about vision and hearing disabilities and learning how to help people that go through this and try to understand them. Not a lot of people are informed about the different disabilities that there are so in a way I’m grateful I had the opportunity to teach my classmates and they also teach me.

The first group that presented had to teach us about mobility and physical impairments, spinal cord disabilities, and head injuries-brain disabilities. One thing that really surprised me that they mentioned was how most spinal cord disabilities occur because of car accidents. I found that to be super scary because we all drive and it can happen to any of us at any time. Overall I really enjoyed their presentation because they were very detailed and informative about their subject. They asked very important questions in their interview too.

The group I was in had to do research on vision and hearing disabilities. For this, we all split up who was going to do what and what they were going to explain in their part. So for this, we split up the group into two parts, the vision disability, and the hearing disability. I was in the vision group and I chose to explain the different organizations that there are and go over some facts that not everyone knows about. One thing that I learned about vision disabilities is that just because you have it does not mean your blind and about 80% of vision disabilities can be corrected with the proper treatment. We all worked together and communicated throughout this project, so everything was smooth sailing and it was fun to see everything come together nicely.

The last group that presented spoke about cognitive and learning disabilities, psychological disorders, and invisible disabilities. Hidden disabilities was a new term that I did not know of and mean that you can not tell that the person has this certain condition. It usually relates to diabetes or epilepsy. This group also spoke clearly and I enjoyed their power point.

I thought I knew about disabilities but in reality, I was shown that I did not know much at all which is a bit understandable because not a lot of people talk about disabilities. I think every group did an awesome job and I genuinely believe that everyone learned at least one thing that we did know before. Everyone’s poster came out really nice and informative, so I hope other people can see them and learn a little more about disabilities so that they can teach others too.  I did not think my speech class was going to be this entertaining and informative on other subjects, not just speech itself.