Our Aim & Outcomes for today:
By the end of this session you will be able to recall the 5 stages of Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs, thinking about your own needs. We will then evaluate your understanding and attitudes towards individuals with additional needs.
- Discuss Maslow's Hierarchy of needs, relating to your own needs.
- Identify the way in which individuals with additional needs are portrayed within our society.
- Outline the meaning of additional needs, thinking about genetic, developmental and physical causes.
By the end of this session you will be able to recall the 5 stages of Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs, thinking about your own needs. We will then evaluate your understanding and attitudes towards individuals with additional needs.
- Discuss Maslow's Hierarchy of needs, relating to your own needs.
- Identify the way in which individuals with additional needs are portrayed within our society.
- Outline the meaning of additional needs, thinking about genetic, developmental and physical causes.
What do you need?
To start today I am going to give you 5 Post-it-notes each - I would like you to write on each of them something that you NEED.
Abraham Maslow (1943)
In 1943, the US psychologist Abraham Maslow published a paper called A Theory of Human Motivation, in which he said that people had five sets of needs, which come in a particular order. As each level of needs is satisfied, the desire to fulfil the next set kicks in. When all needs are met we become the best that we can be in all aspects of personality, intellectual, social and emotional life, he calls this Self Actualisation. |
What can cause Additional Needs?
Gentic causes Developmental causes Environmental causes Accidents
Our Aim & Outcomes for today:
By the end of this session you will be able to demonstrate an understanding of reasons why individuals may experience additional needs, recalling a number of genetic, developmental & physical additional needs. You will have considered images and language associated with individuals with additional needs.
- Apply own experiences to group's understanding of 'Additional Needs.'
- Compare individual's needs, considering impact on their health, wellbeing and life opportunities.
- Consider the language and images used within society associated with individuals with additional needs.
By the end of this session you will be able to demonstrate an understanding of reasons why individuals may experience additional needs, recalling a number of genetic, developmental & physical additional needs. You will have considered images and language associated with individuals with additional needs.
- Apply own experiences to group's understanding of 'Additional Needs.'
- Compare individual's needs, considering impact on their health, wellbeing and life opportunities.
- Consider the language and images used within society associated with individuals with additional needs.
Our perception of disability
• Two thirds (67%) of the British public feel uncomfortable talking to disabled people.
• Over a third (36%) of people tend to think of disabled people as not as productive as everyone else.
• Over four fifths (85%) of the British public believe that disabled people face prejudice.
• A quarter (24%) of disabled people have experienced attitudes or behaviours where other people expected less of them because of their disability.
• One fifth (21%) of 18 – 34 years old admit that they have actually avoided talking to a disabled person because they weren’t sure how to communicate with them.
• One hundred and eighty disability hate crimes are committed every day in this country.
Scope (2014) Current attitudes towards disabled people. Available at: http://www.scope.org.uk/scope/media/images/publication%20directory/current-attitudes-towards-disabled-people.pdf?ext=.pdf [Last accessed: 27th August 2015]
• Over a third (36%) of people tend to think of disabled people as not as productive as everyone else.
• Over four fifths (85%) of the British public believe that disabled people face prejudice.
• A quarter (24%) of disabled people have experienced attitudes or behaviours where other people expected less of them because of their disability.
• One fifth (21%) of 18 – 34 years old admit that they have actually avoided talking to a disabled person because they weren’t sure how to communicate with them.
• One hundred and eighty disability hate crimes are committed every day in this country.
Scope (2014) Current attitudes towards disabled people. Available at: http://www.scope.org.uk/scope/media/images/publication%20directory/current-attitudes-towards-disabled-people.pdf?ext=.pdf [Last accessed: 27th August 2015]
'Less than 8 per cent of disabled people use wheelchairs'
Papworth Trust Disability (2010) Facts and Statistics. Available at: http://www.efds.co.uk/resources/facts_and_statistics [Last Accessed: 27th August 2015]
Papworth Trust Disability (2010) Facts and Statistics. Available at: http://www.efds.co.uk/resources/facts_and_statistics [Last Accessed: 27th August 2015]