Scarleth's Disability Reflection

         As to our recent demonstrations to different types of disability I would like to say WOW. I can truly now understand more about the disability world and I am proud to have some background knowledge on it. There are many people in our community that pass by you and most of the time they will have a disability. You might just not know about it because no one knows your life and story. I feel that educating yourself to know this information is important and I’m grateful to be one of the handfuls to learn about it. The presentations being given were so informational and made very easy to understand. The PowerPoint itself was different rather than the first one because it included a lot of research to provide and a lot of teamwork.

     As we all know, Group 1 was the very first to present in the beginning of class session; They spoke about the Mobility, Spinal, and Head disability. Their work really showed through the PowerPoint although some tweaks were shown. I find that they did a much better job than the first presentation they set out. Something they improved on immensely was that they managed to put all the information on one PowerPoint rather than breaking them down to several ones. It saved precious time and was not chaotic like the very last one. I remember that within Group 1 they distributed the poster and brochure within the middle of the PowerPoint. I would have liked to see them at the very beginning to get a sense of what information was in each chapter. Another thing I viewed was that when people were presenting, a handful of them were reading off the slides especially since all the information was written down on the PowerPoint. I would have liked to see more visuals preferably but many have their own techniques that they would like to give.

   Afterwards, Group 2 was the one to present and spoke about the visuals and hearing disabilities. My group itself are very hard working people but I feel like many of us like to work under pressure. We all found ourselves to be working the night before and keeping up with each other’s work which I love about us. Behind the scene, we always talk to each other on a group chat to keep updates of what we are doing. Overall, I feel like our presentation was phenomenal written and verbally distributed to the audience. We tried making our presentation as colorful and light weight to talk more about the topic without having to read off the slides. Although some of the slides looked a bit clustered when presenting I feel like it was a technical issue and smothered the information together.

  Lastly, Group 3 was the last to present the very next class about Cognitive, Psychological, and Invisible. This group presented the poster and brochure very informative and was amazing! They connected each chapter well and transferred each information as supposed to. Although, some of the information provided wasn’t linking with what they spoke about sometimes it was overall a good presentation. The PowerPoint was neat and they didn’t have to call on the next person after each person finished talking like last time.

In conclusion, these groups showed improvement since the last time they presented. I find the notes our class leaders set out to be such an amazing way to give us our feedback. We all worked hard and it shows through our PowerPoints. All the groups thought outside the box to make their presentations short but educational and had some creative images. I feel like when we all work together it creates a big impact on everyone and motivates us to move forward. I’m grateful to have learned so many things in this speech class and perceive to improve ourselves each time we present. We are all human and loved by many and should appreciate everything around us including our disabilities.