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2b) Change the way you think about disabilities forever! Adaptive sports at Disabled

Sports USA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjZQwoR2Bkg

Main ideas:

1. The difficulties that disabled person facing are hard for us to imagine.
2. To alter the thinking way of the community when talking about disabilities.
3. Disabled Sports USA is the road to success for disable people.
4. Through Disabled Sports USA, disability get the valued opportunity to change they
life with sports.
5. Sports give a sense of ability back to disable people and help them boosting their
self-esteem in life.

Supporting details:

1. Disabled person difficult to keep out as a normal person. He has to swallow hard
thing for a man’s pride when he has to ask for help. Some disabled person suffered
with going trough the process of what they going to do now and they don’t have a
purpose in life anymore.
2. They did well than able-bodied people especially in sports domain. This apparently
change the ways we think about disabilities in our society.
3. Disabled Sports USA get people out doing sports and they regain confidence and
they start back the road to recovery.
4. Anjali Forber-Pratt said that she can also get an education , succeed and go on the
Paralympic. This has shown that although someone has disability problem, they
still can attain success in their life with education.
5. Some disabled people can prove their “existence” when doing sports and they feel
that they are alive and it become vital in their life
What you can infer about ‘social inequality’:

Social-inequality still exist in our society but there is a change nowadays and it can be
stamped out in the near future. In the aspect of economic, disable people are given equal job
opportunity like a normal person. It has made them to become independent as they can earn a
stable income for their living. Besides, disable people can get involve in sports to create some
bombastic achievements which are better than normal people. In the aspect of education, lots
of institutions have provided special education for them to study sports so that they have the
chance to become a skilful athlete.

What conclusion(s) you can draw:

To conclude, disability will not become the obstacles for disable people to engage
themselves in sports. With the belief of I can do this I can do everything, there is no
boundaries for disable people to show their talents in sports. Through Disabled Sports
USA, sports give a sense of ability back to disable people and in turn boost their self-
esteem in life. Now, disable people are becoming more perfect than a ble-bodied people. It
is not a matter of if disable people keep up with the rest of able-bodied people but they keep
up with disable people. It goes without saying that we as an able-bodied people totally
change our stereotypical mindset towards disabilities.