Disaster Preparedness Plan for DDSN and Other Agencies Providing Services to Persons with Disabilities and Special Needs

1999 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Special Needs ◽  
Disaster Preparedness ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Preparedness Plan

Estimation of Abuse by Teachers in Special Needs Schools in Japan

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-119
Author(s):  
Toshihiro Horiguchi ◽  
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Kenji Takanashi ◽  
Shoichi Sato ◽  
Naoki Sone
Keyword(s):  
Special Needs ◽  
Incidence Rate ◽  
Internet Communication ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Reasonable Accommodations ◽  
Prevention Act ◽  
Inspection Systems ◽  
Government Data ◽  
Physical Maltreatment

Children with disabilities are at high risk of being abused at school by their teachers. Based on legislation in Japan, the authors assessed the implementation of measures to prevent abuse and reasonable accommodations (arrangements) available at special needs schools in Japan. Government data has concentrated only on physical maltreatment by teachers; thus, we also collected grievances from parents to estimate the prevalence rate of abuse at special education settings. Of the 1,077 schools that were sent questionnaires, 333 completed them. Educational programmes for staff were the most common measure employed to prevent abuse. Various forms of support, including communication with internet-communication technology, were provided in relation to reasonable accommodations. After the implementation of the abuse prevention act for persons with disabilities, 14 (4.20%) schools reported grievances from parents claiming that their child had been bullied by teachers. Because Japan does not have educational inspection systems, such as the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, we assumed the incidence rate. Provided that all the grievances were related to abuse, the incidence rate was 0.02–0.05% (95% CI).

Dental fear in a special needs clinic population of persons with disabilities

2002 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 99-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael D. Martin ◽  
Jamie Kinoshita-Byrne ◽  
Tracy Getz
Keyword(s):  
Special Needs ◽  
Dental Fear ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Clinic Population

scholarly journals Language of disability as a factor of discrimination of persons with disabilities

Temida ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-126
Author(s):  
Filip Miric
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Special Needs ◽  
Language Disability ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Full Participation ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Impact

The incorrect labeling of people with disabilities as people with special needs constitutes not only a violation of equality but also a special criminological and criminal justice phenomenon. There are no special needs, but just different ways of satisfying them. The subject of this paper is an analyses of the impact of labeling people with disabilities and language disability on a discriminatory process and considers whether the victimization of persons with disabilities engenders inequality. The labeling of people with disabilities throughout history will also be considered. A questionnaire was distributed via Facebook in order to explore the opinions of users of social networks on language disability and its impact on discrimination. The aim of the paper is to highlight the effect labeling has on the overall social situation of people with disabilities. It is argued that the accurate usage of appropriate linguistic terminology would help prevent the victimization of persons with disabilities and accentuate the realization of their full participation in contemporary society.

scholarly journals The Preparedness Level of Families with Disabilities Children in Facing the Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster in Padang, West Sumatra

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
Muchsin Riviwanto ◽  
Darwel Darwel ◽  
Defriani Dwiyanti ◽  
Juanda Juanda
Keyword(s):  
Disaster Preparedness ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Statistical Tests ◽  
Disaster Mitigation ◽  
Special Treatment ◽  
Preparedness Plan ◽  
Tsunami Disaster ◽  
West Sumatra ◽  
The Face ◽  
Index Value

Disability groups are groups vulnerable to disaster risk. Most families with disabilities feel worried about defending themselves in the event of a disaster. They are less socialized with disaster mitigation efforts. This research has provided an overview of the preparedness of families with disabilities children in increasing disaster resilience. Analytical research was conducted on families with disabilities children in the city of Padang. Data collection tools in this study used a standard questionnaire from LIPI-UNESCO / ISDR. The data were processed by a computer and analyzed using multiple regression statistical tests. The results showed the preparedness of Families With Disabilities Children in the face of disasters; it was seen that the knowledge category was ready (42.2%), the preparedness plan category was not ready (37.8%), the disaster warning category was not ready (46.7%), the resource mobilization category was not ready, ready (82.2%), the tsunami disaster preparedness index value is 57% (ready category). This research recommended local governments must provide special treatment for people with disabilities by increasing training, seminars, and disaster simulations.

scholarly journals Medical Allocations to Persons with Special Needs during a Bioterrorism Event

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald E Brannen ◽  
Melissa Branum ◽  
Sejal Pawani ◽  
Sandy Miller ◽  
Jeanne Bowman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
General Population ◽  
Special Needs ◽  
Vaccination Campaign ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Willingness To Serve ◽  
Ice Storms ◽  
Population Cohort ◽  
Disaster Survivors ◽  
General Population Cohort

After the bioterrorism-anthrax attacks of 2001, individual public health officials were tasked with planning population-wide medicine dispensing. This planning started with assumptions and then evaluations of seasonal immunization clinics. Research of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic-vaccination campaign showed that an adequately prepared public health system could have prevented over 16% of flu-associated hospitalizations. The 2011 ice storms revealed difficulties with sheltering medically fragile persons with disabilities. Later research showed that training and preparedness levels increased responders’ willingness to serve. Also, when triaging disaster survivors to general shelters, medical shelters, or mental health services; sorting to community mass care services improved up to 15% when past traumatic effects, personal care assistance, or service methodology were accounted for. The number of persons who are disabled and dependent on electric medical equipment are increasing. This current study compared the time it takes to dispense medication to two different cohorts: a general-population cohort (n=31) and a special-needs cohort (n=30). The cohort comprised entirely of persons with special needs took 4.1 compared to 2.48 minutes per person in a general population cohort (p=.057). A person with any special needs took 3.73 versus 2.43 minutes for a person with no special needs (p=.082). Modeling of service times per station and cohort type found significant delays at the medical station among persons in the general population who are pregnant (840 seconds, p=.002) and persons in the special needs cohort with a language barrier (750 seconds, p=.001).

scholarly journals Sikap Orang Tua Terhadap Pendidikan Inklusif

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Amka Amka
Keyword(s):  
International Education ◽  
Special Needs ◽  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Children With Special Needs ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
International Education Policy ◽  
Human Rights Treaties ◽  
United Nations Convention ◽  
Laws And Policies

Inclusive education has become an international education policy. Many countries already have legislation for inclusive education based on international human rights treaties such as the 1994 Salamanca Statement and UNESCO Action Framework and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Indonesia has become one of the countries that applies inclusive education in education laws and policies, and has required all provinces to implement inclusive education. The success of inclusive education requires the support of parents. This study highlights the attitudes of parents towards inclusive education. at the Keraton 4 Martapura Elementary School. The purpose of this study is to obtain an overview of the attitudes of parents of children with special needs for inclusive education services. A total of 40 parents of children with special needs were interviewed to get a picture of attitudes. The results of this study showed the attitudes of parents with special needs to accept the concept of inclusive.

scholarly journals Ensuring Continuity of Transitional Housing for Homeless Veterans: Promoting Disaster Resilience among the Veterans Health Administration’s Grant and Per Diem Providers

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 215013271986126
Author(s):  
June L. Gin ◽  
Roger J. Casey ◽  
Jeffery L. Quarles ◽  
Aram Dobalian
Keyword(s):  
Disaster Preparedness ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Transitional Housing ◽  
Veterans Health ◽  
Department Of Veterans Affairs ◽  
Preparedness Plan ◽  
Management Evaluation ◽  
Homeless Veterans ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
The Us

The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has committed significant resources toward eliminating homelessness among veterans as part of its health care mission. The VA Grant and Per Diem (GPD) program funds non-VA, community-based organizations to provide transitional housing and support services to veterans experiencing homelessness. During a disaster, GPD grantee organizations will be especially critical in ensuring the well-being of veterans residing in their programs. Recognizing the need to ensure continued access to this residential care, the VA GPD program implemented a disaster preparedness plan requirement for its grantee organizations in 2013. This study conducted semistructured interviews with leaders of 5 GPD grantee organizations, exploring their perceptions of the preparedness requirement, the assistance they would need to achieve desired preparedness outcomes, and their motivations toward preparedness. Organizations reported being extremely motivated toward improving their disaster preparedness, albeit often for reasons other than the new preparedness requirement, such as disaster risk or partnerships with local government. Two dominant themes in organizations’ identified needs were (1) the need to make preparedness seem as “easy and doable” as possible and (2) the desire to be more thoroughly integrated with partners. These themes suggest the need to develop materials specifically tailored to facilitate preparedness within the GPD nonprofit grantees, an effort currently being led by the VA’s Veterans Emergency Management Evaluation Center (VEMEC).

Os Direitos de Educação de Qualidade das Pessoas com necessidades Educacionais Especiais na Perspectiva Inclusiva

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 130
Author(s):  
Julia Alejandra Pezuk ◽  
Eduardo Natali Della Valentina ◽  
João Fernando Brinkmann dos Santos
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Special Needs ◽  
Developmental Disorders ◽  
Quality Education ◽  
Special Educational Needs ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
International Convention ◽  
Legal Documents ◽  
Inclusive School ◽  
The Right

A educação é um direito universal de todos os indivíduos que prevê a formação do ser humano no conhecimento disponível. No entanto, sabemos atualmente que a educação requer adequações para diversas situações a fim de que seja inclusiva e para todos, e inclua educandos portadores de necessidade especiais para garantir a eles os mesmos direitos e oportunidades. Nesse contexto entender melhor a qualidade e a forma como a educação é feita para todas as pessoas, especialmente para aqueles indivíduos que tem necessidades especiais é fundamental. Por isso a presente pesquisa refere-se a uma revisão de literatura estruturada pelo tema “o direito à educação de qualidade das pessoas com necessidades educativas especiais na perspectiva inclusiva”. Na busca por entender Assim, por meio desta revisão, se objetiva apontar o direito à educação de qualidade a todos, referenciando diversos documentos legais desde a “Declaração Universal dos Direitos Humanos” de 1948 até a “Convenção Internacional Sobre os Direitos das Pessoas com Deficiência” de 2009, compilando informações e propostas de valorização para o atendimento a pessoas com deficiência, transtornos globais de desenvolvimento e altas habilidades na escola inclusiva. É imprescindível notar que a convergência desses documentos garante acesso, permanência e participação a todos, incluindo, portanto, educandos portadores de necessidades especiais.Palavras-chave: Inclusão. Qualidade. Direito. Educação.AbstractEducation is a universal right for all individuals, also called learners, that guarantee the formation of human using the available knowledge that we have today. However, we currently know that education requires adaptations to diverse situations in order to be inclusive and for all, to be capable to include learners with special needs to guarantee to them the same rights and opportunities. In this context, understanding better the quality and the way education is made for all learner, especially for those individuals who have special needs its fundamental. Therefore, the present research refers to a literature-structured review by the theme "the right to quality education of people with special educational needs in an inclusive perspective". The aim of this review is to highlight the right education with quality for everyone, referencing various legal documents from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 to the International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities "Of 2009, compiling information and valuation proposals for the care of people with disabilities, global developmental disorders and high skills in inclusive school. It is important to note that the convergence of these documents guarantees access, permanence and participation to all learners, including, therefore, students with special needs.Keywords: Inclusion. Quality. Right. Education.

Emergency Health Surveillance After Severe Flooding in Louisiana, 1995

2001 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 138-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia L. Ogden ◽  
Lynn I. Gibbs-Scharf ◽  
Melvin A. Kohn ◽  
Josephine Malilay
Keyword(s):  
Disaster Preparedness ◽  
Health Surveillance ◽  
Surveillance Systems ◽  
Flash Flooding ◽  
Preparedness Plan ◽  
Disaster Area ◽  
Public Health Officials ◽  
Service Disruption ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Severe Flooding

AbstractIntroduction:In disaster situations, timely surveillance systems that provide illness, injury, and mortality information to public health officials and hospitals are essential for planning and evaluating interventions.Objectives:To describe flood surveillance methodology, the impact of the event on hospitals, and the number of daily patient visits due to selected illnesses and injuries before, during, and after severe flooding in southeastern Louisiana in May 1995.Methods:Survey of disaster-area hospitals regarding flood impact. Emergency department surveillance of injuries and illnesses for the week before, the two days during, and the week after the flood.Results:There occurred an increase in the number of persons who drowned or were injured that presented to the moderately affected hospitals during the storm, but there was no increase in visits for gastroenteritis to any group of hospitals. Services were disrupted in more than half of hospitals. The severely affected hospitals had the least variation in the average number of daily visits. None of the drownings were reported by those hospitals that reported severe service disruption.Conclusions:Data should be collected from all hospitals in or near disaster areas, even if they were not directly affected by the disaster. Public education about the danger of drowning during flash flooding must be improved. The Louisiana experience emphasizes the need for a disaster-preparedness plan for rapid surveillance of illnesses and injuries.

scholarly journals Intellectual Disability Nursing

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Mental Retardation ◽  
Intellectual Disability ◽  
Developmental Disabilities ◽  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Special Needs ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World

Persons with mental retardation enter a group of persons with disabilities. We also use the term “persons with developmental disabilities” and “persons with special needs” but recently, for persons with mental retardation, we use the term “persons with intellectual disabilities”. Sometimes negative opinions and negative attitudes, violence and discrimination were not directed against them, but such practices were advancing to the social pattern of behavior towards them. Even today we are witnessing that there is still a pattern of behavior toward them. Although society has been educating and expanding its vision and understanding of the world around it, it often happens that their abilities and their abilities create superficial conclusions. The presence of mental retardation does not justify any form of discrimination. Although more and more institutions dealing with improving the lives of persons with intellectual disabilities, they are in some ways deprived of their own choice and decision-making.

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