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Lesson 13 Intersubjectivity Part 2 Hand Outs
Lesson 13 Intersubjectivity Part 2 Hand Outs
Part 2
Lesson 14
Mr. Edward B. Noda
Jr.
Persons with
Disabilities (PWDs)
and Underprivileged
Sectors of the Society
Person’s with Disabilities (PWD’s)
According to the United Nations (UN) Convention
on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the term
“persons with disabilities” is used to apply to those
persons who have long-term physical, psychological,
intellectual, or sensory impairments which in
interaction with several unreasonable or
discriminatory barriers may obstruct their full and
active participation as equal members of the society.
Paralympics
Much like us, persons with certain conditions have also dreams and
ambitions in life. Some of them wants to become teachers, lawyers,
artists, athletes, and many more.
Fatima Soriano Roselle Ambubuyog
Arnold Balais
Hellen Keller (1880- 1968)
● American author, political activist
● 1st deaf-blind person to earn a
bachelor’s degree
● Anne Sullivan- Hellen’s mentor
who
was visually-impaired as well.
● Published her autobiography, The
Story of My Life
Nicholas James “Nick” Vujicic (born 1982)
● Australian evangelist and
motivational speaker who
was born with phocomelia, a
condition in which a person is
born with no arms or legs.
● Founder of Life Without
Limbs, a
non-profit organization and
ministry.
Roselle Ambubuyog (born 1980)
● 1st visually-impaired Filipino to
graduate summa cum laude from
Ateneo de Manila University in 2001.
● Despite her handicap, she was a
consistent academic honoree-
valedictorian (elementary & high school)
● Product and support manager at Code
Factory, the world’s leading provider
of software that allow the visually-
impaired to access mobile devices.
Underprivileged Sectors of the Society
The underprivileged is being described as the
group of people that is suffering from different
forms of social deprivation such as denial of the
enjoyment of similar level of comfort and/or
fundamental rights as most of the members of a
civilized society due to several economic and
social circumstances.