Week 1-2

Question 1

Disability

Answer 1

Any condition of the body or mind that is more difficult for the person with the condition to do certain activities and interact with the world around them

Question 2

Impairment

Answer 2

A person’s body structure or function, mental functioning as well
E.g. the loss of a limb, loss of vision, memory loss

Question 3

Activity limitation

Answer 3

Problems an individual may experience in involvement in life
E.g. things like difficulty seeing, difficulty hearing, walking or even problem solving

Question 4

Participation restrictions

Answer 4

In normal daily activities
E.g. going to work, engaging in social or recreational activities receiving health care

Question 5

Structural impairments

Answer 5

Usually involve a problem with internal or external parts of the body
E.g. nerve damage, a complete loss of a body component

Question 6

Functional impairment

Answer 6

Include the complete or partial loss of a body part
E.g. pain that doesn’t go away, joints that no longer move easy

Question 7

What are health disparities attributed to?

Answer 7

Beliefs and biases in the healthcare system

Question 8

What are the 3 underlying causes of health disparities?

Answer 8

1. Health= absence of disease
   Health promotion= disability prevention
   Health is defined as an absence of disease
2. Belief that disability is equated to poor health
3. Belief that disability is absence of health promotion can be best explained by disability is a negative consequence is not participating in health benefits addressed within a medical model

Question 9

What are some misconceptions about the Traditional Public Health Model

Answer 9

• All people with disabilities automatically have poor health
• public health should focus only on preventing any kind of disabling condition
• a standard definition of “disability” is not needed for public health purposes
• the environment plays no role in the disabling process

Question 10

What are the 4 models of disability?

Answer 10

1. Medical model of disability
2. Social minority model of disability
3. Social construction model of disability
4. International class of functioning, disability, and health

Question 11

What is the purpose of the medical model?

Answer 11

Try to “fix” people with disabilities
- this tends to de-humanize the people with a disability

Question 12

What is the problem with the Social Minority Model of Disability

Answer 12

They assume that all people with a disability have the same experiences

Question 13

How is disability perceived as in the Social Construction Model of Disability

Answer 13

It reinforces between practices and interactions of an able bodied society

Question 14

How is disability explained as a social construct?

Answer 14

Defined by the culture/historic period
- can change historically over time, ideas and beliefs over time
- excluded from health promotion programs or receiving services

Question 15

What is disability as a social construct concerned with?

Answer 15

How disability is defined, who gets to define what a disability is

Question 16

What does the International Class of Functioning, Disability, and Health Model focus on?

Answer 16

Focuses on individual strengths and not the disability
It recognizes that we can all experience a decrease in health at some point in their life

Question 17

What are some main points of the medical model?

Answer 17

• Centers concerns on the individual with the impairment
• focuses on notions of abnormality and deficiency

Question 18

What are some main points of the social minority model

Answer 18

• Emphasizes disability rather than ability
• perpetuates segregation rather than inclusion

Question 19

What are some main points of the social construction model?

Answer 19

• disability is socially constructed
• It is society that disables people with impairments

Question 20

What are some main ideas of the International Class of Functioning, Disability and Health model?

Answer 20

• Disability is not reduced to either a limitation of the individual or a socially created problem
• Disability is conceptualized as an interaction of the individual and the environment in which he or she lives

Question 21

What is inclusive physical activity?

Answer 21

Accessible physical activity programs that are provided to all individuals across the life span in diverse settings

Question 22

What are some examples of inclusive physical activity?

Answer 22

• infant and toddler movement experiences
• school based physical education
• community based recreation and leisure activities

Question 23

What does the philosophy of inclusive physical activity recognize?

Answer 23

Ensuring all individuals, regardless of abilities or age, have an equal change to participate in activity

Question 24

What are some beleifs about participants necessary for inclusive physical activity to succeed?

Answer 24

• each person is unique
• everyone has a right
• each person can be healthy
• the capabilities of all individuals are dynamic

Question 25

What are some beliefs about practitioners necessary for inclusive physical activity to succeed?

Answer 25

• Practitioners are committed to promote health of all individuals
• practitioners promote equal access to both the physical environment and the equipment
• Practitioners value the diversity of the participants

Question 26

What are the rationales for adopting an inclusive physical activity?

Answer 26

• Resource redundancy
• instructional individualizations
• breadth of benefits

Question 27

How is the Inclusive Model of Ability in Physical Activity (IMAPA) different from other models?

Answer 27

• acceptance of all individuals with disabilities as healthy active people
• create equal access to the broad range of physical activity opportunities possible
• accommodate individual differences to achieve effective and successful activity involvement

Question 28

What are some underlying components of an inclusive physical activity approach?

Answer 28

• Cannot be evaluated based on only abilities
• does not follow an individual across tasks and contexts
• performance dynamic between individual, environment and task

Question 29

Capability shifting

Answer 29

An individual’s capability to perform a task is altered by changing either:
- skill level
- contact of the task (environment)
- the task itself

Question 30

What are 4 task- related factors influencing capability

Answer 30

1. The nature of the task
2. Complexity of the movement pattern
3. How the task is executed
4. Continuous vs finite

Question 31

What are the 3 R’s of inclusive reflective practice?

Answer 31

Ready
Rethink
Retry