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Harrison Bergeron is the fourteen-year-old son of George Bergeron and Hazel Bergeron, who is 7 feet (2.1 m) tall, a genius, and an extraordinarily handsome, athletic, strong, and brave person. George Bergeron is Harrison's father and Hazel's husband. A very smart and sensitive character, he is handicapped artificially by the government.
This story begins at Camp Wiggens, a camp that is suited to handicapped children. Ron Jones is a camp counselor and is also in charge of five of the campers along with a man named Dominic. Ron didn't expect Camp Wiggens to be such hard job, as he took the job thinking that the children were not so severely disabled.
However, causes of disability are usually determined by a person's capability to perform the activities of daily life. Due to the number of entries, this page does not include autistic fictional characters. The names are organized alphabetically by surname, or by single name if the character does not have a surname.
The Accessible Icon Project is one of the main groups behind changing the international symbol of accessibility. We spoke to one of their organizers.
Models of disability are analytic tools in disability studies used to articulate different ways disability is conceptualized by individuals and society broadly. [1] [2] Disability models are useful for understanding disagreements over disability policy, [2] teaching people about ableism, [3] providing disability-responsive health care, [3] and articulating the life experiences of disabled people.
The fact that disabled hosts and reporters are going to have a say in the way the stories of disabled athletes are being told is the key to progressing disability representation on screen and in ...
Return to Cuba (May 1998); Power Dressing (December 1998); A Celebration for the Day of the Dead (October 1999); Conventional Wisdom (September 2000); Unspeakable Conversations, The New York Times, (February 16, 2003, also published in the book Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century by Alice Wong, 2020)
Internalised ableism is a disabled person discriminating against themself and other disabled people by holding the view that disability is something to be ashamed of or something to hide or by refusing accessibility or support. Internalised ableism may be a result of mistreatment of disabled individuals.