Impact on Families and People with Disabilities During COVID-19

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  1. silver my project,
  2. I focused on people with disabilities and how they were
  3. strongly impacted by COVID-19 to narrow down this large topic.
  4. I am presenting issues focused in the lack of access to technology and the vaccine.
  5. I chose to do this topic because technology in the classroom is now such a prominent
  6. way to teach and I want to be educated in the best way to do this.
  7. I wanted to find out if there was issues with
  8. technology access currently and find ways to do this.
  9. And then I was also interested in
  10. how COVID-19 is treating people with disabilities.
  11. Especially over the past year,
  12. I've learned a lot of information but I want to dive
  13. deeper into how families and Children with disabilities are struggling,
  14. which is not being broadcasted.
  15. Okay,
  16. so for a lack of access to technology,
  17. technology can be very useful for both students
  18. with and without a disability is not always
  19. accessible for students with disabilities because they might have a
  20. barrier that won't allow them to have full access.
  21. This happens especially with websites and internet.
  22. Um,
  23. COVID-19 has widened the gap of being able
  24. to afford an access technology for students and disabilities
  25. and this has made the digital divide gap even larger.
  26. And
  27. yes,
  28. there's a lack of access to technology
  29. in hospitals as well.
  30. People
  31. doctors will
  32. not give people a facility certain
  33. medical treatment because they have a disability
  34. and they will save it for someone else.
  35. Um a quote from Lydia XC Brown in her article how
  36. to send our disability in the tech response to COVID-19 stated
  37. in the event of a shortage of equipment or personal,
  38. many state and hospital policies often do you prioritize
  39. people with certain disabilities to receive life saving treatment?
  40. Mhm.
  41. And then for a lack of access to the Covid vaccine,
  42. people with disabilities may not have access to
  43. transportation and take them to the vaccine site.
  44. A lot of vaccination sites aren't even mentioning people with disabilities.
  45. Yeah.
  46. Um people with disabilities from racial and
  47. ethnic backgrounds are being highly stigmatized and affected
  48. by COVID-19 and a few vaccination plans include long term services and supports
  49. in their plan or listed as a priority. And this is not just happening in the U. S.
  50. It's happening worldwide.
  51. So
  52. people with disabilities are being largely discriminated against.
  53. And states are even closing facilities that people with disabilities need
  54. to go to on a daily basis or have people come from
  55. to help them at home and they are not allowing necessary residential care.
  56. So for
  57. my learning about this topic,
  58. my sources were learning the first source was attending the S.
  59. N.
  60. A. S. A. And gala.
  61. Um I really like the first panel racial disparities in public health
  62. and I really like jump started my research into like thinking about like
  63. how the health care
  64. treats people with disabilities. Um
  65. and like Covid and everything that's going on.
  66. Um
  67. and Shavon G. Agrawal.
  68. She spoke during this panel and she really interested
  69. me because she spoke about her public health accessibility
  70. in India.
  71. And it was really interesting to hear about
  72. accessibility issues in other countries
  73. um in her country.
  74. They do not have
  75. a lot of accessibility into medical buildings.
  76. And she was saying how a lot of
  77. people won't even go for medical treatment because they
  78. um I don't want to
  79. deal with the issue of even getting into medical buildings. And she was also stating
  80. how the government treats them very badly in the um
  81. mhm.
  82. In the medical model
  83. and they create policies based on that model and she said
  84. the doctors don't believe how they are feeling and ignore them.
  85. And um they also gave them a word
  86. and it was
  87. to Vang which means divine body
  88. and this basically means that they think
  89. people have a disability based on the karma that they deserve.