Accepting People With Speech Disorders
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Submitted by littleharvey1 on 06/30/2008 05:21 PM
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Accepting People With Speech Disorders
Some people have speech disabilities, and others do not know how to act towards them. People will try to help by finishing sentences, giving advice on how to help sentences to flow better and will even think that person is stupid because of how he speaks. This can be fixed by offering classes in schools that teach disability etiquette. It would be required for high school students to take one of these classes to graduate.
First, it is important to know what exactly a speech disability is. "A disability is a condition caused by an accident, trauma, genetics or disease, which may limit a person's mobility, hearing, vision, speech or mental function" (Handbook). So, a speech disability is a condition that limits someone's speech. In the required class, students would learn what is and is not supposed to be done. For example, students would be taught to "Listen patiently" and that they are not supposed to "complete sentences for the person unless he looks to you for help" (EASI Guide).
Offering classes in schools is a good solution to this problem because some people with disabilities are not treated how they should be. Sometimes, this happens because people are ignorant and do not know any better. If people were taught disability etiquette in high school, this would be less likely to happen. Offering classes would also help people be more comfortable if they were to meet a person with a disability and could even make a person more willing to meet someone with a disability.
Not everyone goes through high school so not everyone would be taught the class, but the majority would get taught.
Having classes available for students, in high school, would really help people not only with speech disabilities but people with any disability. It would help them get them some more respect and maybe help others to accept them and get to know them.
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