There are a lot of things that people are disabled or have become. This can happen by accident, for example a car accident. Also, a disease your body for the rest of your life damage. For many of these dangerous diseases we get a syringe, a vaccination, so we do not get these diseases. But there remains anything happen that we can do nothing about. It is also possible that if you get born and grow during that something went wrong.


Different kinds of disabilities.

There are three types of disability:

* Physical disability.

* Mental disabilities.

* Multiple disabilities.


Physically handicapped

Physically handicapped if something with your body, your body is not good. For example: if your muscles do not work as it should, blind and deafness, heart problems, and missing limbs, arms or legs because we mean it.


Mentally handicapped

And if something mentally wrong with your brain. With your brains, and you learn after you think. But get your brains in everything arranged so that the body works.


Multiple handicaps

Multiple disability means that a person physically and mentally and a disease. Advantage: often have heart problems, and often not heard. So they are doubly handicapped, which means multiple. Whether someone has a car accident, lost a leg, but is there anything in the brains broke, so he can not talk.


Mentally handicapped? What is that!

Mentally retarded means that your brains do not work so well. They can not very well think, learn and remember. Everything you learn from birth, then more slowly as a child who is not disabled for example, crawling, walking, counting, learning colors. We quite naturally to group 3. Everyone will learn reading writing arithmetic, and even in years 7 and 8 books and difficult sums. Back there after high school. To learn more. But if you're mentally handicapped does it like that. From birth, these children can not keep it all. And if they are maybe 10 years, they are sitting in group 2. Some of these children still go to group 3 and literacy, but not all. There are also mentally disabled persons who never get a group. They can learn nothing more, it's just too difficult. But there are still more types of mentally handicapped diseases.

But their body is growing through, and they are also mature, real big people. And then they might be 15, 20 or 50 years old, but they continue to think and play as an infant or toddler. There is a lot different level. That means, how much they can learn. The group gets a 3 and the other remains as a baby. Therefore it is a bit weird when you see a man of 40 years enjoying and singing on a swing. Or a lady of 50 who is walking with a doll carriage. But they are so, they are just toddlers. If you have this disability, you are usually mentally handicapped from birth. There is then something went wrong in the womb, that's where the baby grows in the mother. This is possible because something has gone wrong in the womb, so that some of the brains is not working properly. It can also be caused by too much when on medication during pregnancy. But unfortunately the doctors often do not know how it is that the child is damaged. Of course the doctor was always very careful with medications, and examine many things. It could simply be a mistake of nature. So you see even if you have two identical plants to sow the one grows into a nice big plant and the other behind. And why? We know not always. Perhaps the seed was not good enough, or the land is not enough food for two plants. So the strongest power plant has been removed. It may happen that you become mentally disabled by a disease, such as an infection in your brains, or some other serious disease that affects brain damage. Your brains are made of a very special kind of fabric, a type of skin. Once something is broken it never grows more .. It can not be cured and no longer made. Every particle of your brains for something is needed, it controls everything in your body.


Physically handicapped

Physically handicapped we know in many different forms:


* Disabled persons:

people with a (disorder) disease in the move. The muscles that do not do what you want. The muscles are very, tight and stiff, not relaxed and arms and legs waving around. They do not listen to you. This is called spastic. Your arms and legs do their own way.


* Sensory impairment:

people with an impairment in vision, hearing and / or speaking. This is called: blind, deaf, and people who can not speak, we call stupid.


* Disabled Body:

people with an organ (heart, kidneys, lungs) is not properly or not working properly This can be very severe causing all sorts of special tools are needed, and people can not live like a healthy person.


* Multiple disabilities:

people with physical and mental disabilities. So twice handicapped.


Back to School

For every child the best possible in their own environment to grow. That is why we tried to children and youth with disabilities as possible with their neighbors to the school around the corner to let go. There are many types of schools in our country, including children with disabilities. This we call special education. Are there any problems going to school on a normal school, then a child to special education.


Schools for mentally handicapped

The MLK school is an abbreviation for children with learning difficulties, the school is an abbreviation ZMLK for children with severe learning difficulties. At a school for children with learning difficulties there is no lesson in mathematics and language as in our school. This is too difficult for them. They do a lot of games and tasks in group 1 and 2 and play with all kinds of play materials. They learn everything anyway. At the MLK school, most kids learn to read and write but never more than what you have learned in group 4. They learn best through games, projects and tasks. The children often go to their 20 years at the same school, like the MLK

For the disabled there are special schools. For blind and deaf children there are schools that have all the tools needed for this handicap. The children are often decided not dumber than others. Sometimes even smarter because they still good to watch. Concentration and persistence is very important. So they can learn a lot. A blind child learning Braille. This is a special way of reading with your fingers. You feel on paper. An alpha beth composed of characters of dots that you can feel. Think of a needle drawing group 1 and 2. They are not letters but other characters. There are textbooks and books, so the children can still learn. The typewriter of the past and now the computer for a blind one simple device. Ever heard of touch typing? The guided walk with a cane blind children learn at school.

Deaf children learn in school simply reading and writing and arithmetic, and all other subjects. Very simply would say. But they have a different problem. Very difficult for them to talk. She does not hear themselves. They do not know whether what they say is true, they hear no sound. This learning at school. With a dedicated teacher who gives them spraakles. By choosing a mirror and stand looking at your mouth and your tongue. You learn how to pronounce a sound one letter. But you hear it yourself. Therefore, a deaf often talk a little weird. Also teaches a deaf lip-reading. Through a close look at the mouth of another, yet to understand what he says. At both schools, for deaf and blind children, special teachers and masters who help the children with disability. You learn the alphabet with your fingers so the finger alphabet. For children, it is also nice that there is a special school so that they learn as many as possible. They also learn to deal with certain tools out there for blind and deaf. Of course it is nice to have boyfriends and girlfriends with the same disability as you yourself have. You are not the only one with his problem, and you also have fun, talk in sign language which nobody understands.


The mytylschool

This is a school for children with a physical disability. They often have a serious illness, or abnormality in the body. A chronic disease, this is a protracted illness or not is very difficult to cure. For example muscle diseases, heart problems or lung disease. Also seen on the school children who are seriously handicapped. Then they also mental retardation. The children learn as much as possible, but that's different for every child. Each child has his own problems and disease, and every child can learn different things. Usually there is also a school at a rehabilitation center. This is a kind of hospital with many doctors who practice a lot with the kids and work on their illness. Together with the master and teacher, helping the kids learn as much as possible. The most they are busy with their illness, and less with the lessons. Here the children to continue their 20 years, and if possible to learn to live alone.


Disabled Sports, Sports in a wheelchair.

Disabled people also like sports, but that can often not the way we do. Therefore, there are special clubs for disabled people. The members of these associations play adaptive sports. Some sports do not of course be adjusted. Ever heard of the paralympics. Paralympics is a sort of Olympics but for physical disability or mental disability.


A number of modified sports are:

For many sports such as: wheelchair, wheelchairhockey, wheelchair tennis, wheelchair badminton, wheelchair dance, wheelchair handball, zitvolley, table tennis, judo, and more are adjustments on the field, or the rules.


Undeveloped sports are:

Some sports can be played by disabled just like we do. That is of course also to what disability they have. When do sports like chess and checkers are no adjustments required. But also for other sports are not always necessary adjustments, such as: billiards, bowling, sports fishing, archery, rifle shooting, yoga, swimming.


Live at home or in an institution?

Most children remain living at home if possible. But sometimes not. Then the illness or disability so severe that the parents day and night for the child care. It is too difficult because of their disability. These children then attend a special home with caregivers. This is called an institution. It is also possible that the children occasionally take a vacation or a weekend at his home. Just for fun, because that's all changed for them and sometimes that's fine. They also had friends with children who have disabilities. There are also many associations to which they can, and everything is organized. Some children live there forever, even as they get older. For them that is fine because they are never alone, and there is always help from the nurses. Of course there are different houses for different disabilities.


How can you work with handicapped people?

MBO - Department of Social Education Worker Level 4 (SPW). As a childcare worker accompany and take care of people in their daily living or living situation. Through various activities do you get them to function properly. You do that in a professional manner: systematic, methodical and purposeful. Usually you guide people in groups.
You can choose from two differentiations:

* Activiteitenbegeleiding

* Housing counseling

If you stimulate people through activities director (creative) activities they undertake. You will contribute to the drafting, implementing and evaluating the overall supervision plan. You will work closely with other disciplines. As activities director, you work in a home for disabled people.

As living guidance counselor and take care of residents of different housing. You will contribute to the drafting, implementing and evaluating the overall supervision plan. You will work closely with other disciplines. If you live accompanist including contact institutions in the field of disabled.

You can go on to higher professional education (HBO), such as SPH.


HBO - Social Work (SPH)

During the study Social Work (SPH) to learn in a social way and pedagogical assistance to area youth and adults. During your studies you will specialize.
As a social or educational counselor help you support people in their housing and living situation. These are often people who have special circumstances, limitations or obstacles are not (fully) able to function independently. Independent living, work, care for the everyday things and living with others is often a problem for them. Therefore, they receive support, guidance or care. For example in an institution, a day activity center, a work project or assisted living project. As a childcare worker (SPH'er) you care for these professional help and support. The SPH'er activates and organizes, but always in an emergency situation.
You can use the SPH HBO at 22 colleges follow. There is both a full-time, part-time as a dual variant.