In what ways are the following concepts related to increased prejudice and discr

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In what ways are the following concepts related to increased prejudice and discrimination towards people with disabilities, the devaluing of the lives of people with disabilities, and the lack of inclusion of people with disabilities within society: (a) simulation exercises, (b) impression management, (c) “disabled heroes”, (d) assisted suicide, (e) automatic abortion of fetuses with disabilities? Additionally, how does Patrick Corrigan’s public stigma model (i.e., stereotype, prejudice, and discrimination) relate to Infanticide of Newborns with Disabilities?

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All people deal with prejudice ,while some people are victims of prejudice,some are susceptible to developing prejudices against others.Most people hold negative attitudes either consciously or subconsciously toward persons with disabilities.People with disabilities are a diverse group-the visually hearing,speech disabled,mental retardation etc.Prejudice and discrimination against persons with disabilities result in a lack of accessibility to economic and educational oppurtunities inadequate medical care and exclusion from social interaction.This lack of accessibility leads to poverty,social isolation and political powerlessness. Little evidence exists that the simulation exercises have a positive effect on either attitudes or behaviour but, despite this, they are used extensively in disability awareness training, both for children and adults. By individualising and medicalising disability, and by focusing excessively on problems and difficulties, simulation exercises provide false and misleading information, and inculcate negative, rather than positive, attitudes towards disabled people. It is suggested that simulation exercises fail to simulate impairment correctly, and address neither the coping strategies and skills disabled people develop in living with impairment, nor the cumulative social and psychological effect of encountering social and physical barriers over a lifetime.

Impression management: parents of disabled children provide the basis for an analysis of the problems that such parents face in encounters with others outside the immediate family and the strategies they adopt to manage them. Four major problem areas are considered. Two factors, those of the parents' "responsibility" and "power," appear to produce important differences in parents' interpersonal styles. The development of special interactional skills seems to increase parents' competence in other situations besides those concerning their disabled child, and to have important consequences for parents' identities.

Some people fear disability as a fate worse than death. Proponents of legalized assisted suicide are willing to treat lives ended through assisted suicide coercion and abuse as “acceptable losses” when balanced against their unwillingness to accept disability or responsibility for their own suicide.Suicide is, of course, an individual choice. Disabled people who are determined to take their lives may even find it easier to do so than abled people, given the often precarious nature of their existences. But that does not mean that when a fellow human being – disabled or abled – expresses the wish to die because their life is a problem, that we should agree with them. The value of a life is not just in its physicality but in our relationships with those around us.

Life believes that each and every human individual has special value, simply because they are human. The right to life is quite literally the foundation of all other rights. I believe that abortion is always wrong – regardless of the unborn child’s physical health – but that abortion for disability raises some particularly pressing issues to do with equality, diversity and discrimination.The womb is one of the few places where people with disabilities are yet to achieve equality .

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