Promoting Disabilities to Junior High School Students

This is the video that we are promoting wind power generation to elementary school students. And here are the things that we are talking about:  

1. Understanding Disabilities

• Define disabilities: Explain that a disability is a condition that may affect a person's body, senses, or mind in ways that make some activities more challenging.

• Types of disabilities:

  • Physical disabilities (e.g., using a wheelchair, missing limbs)

  • Sensory disabilities (e.g., blindness, deafness)

  • Intellectual and learning disabilities (e.g., dyslexia, Down syndrome)

  • Neurodiversity (e.g., autism, ADHD)

  • Invisible disabilities (e.g., mental health conditions, chronic illnesses)

2. Common Myths & Misconceptions

• Myth: People with disabilities always need help.

  • Truth: Many live independently and only need assistance sometimes.

• Myth: Disabilities mean someone isn’t smart.

  • Truth: Intelligence isn’t defined by disability; people just learn or communicate differently.

3. Respect & Inclusion

• Person-first vs. identity-first language: (e.g., "a person with autism" vs. "an autistic person" – some prefer one over the other)

• How to interact respectfully:

  • Always ask before helping someone.

  • Speak directly to the person, not their assistant or companion.

  • Treat them like everyone else – they have interests, dreams, and hobbies too!

• The power of inclusion: How making schools, communities, and public spaces more accessible benefits everyone.

4. Interactive Activities 

• Simulation exercises: We give them snacks as a gift but they need to open in one hand to experience the life of disabilities, also we gover their eyes with mask to make them experience people whose eyes are hurt.

Promotion to the School

After conducting visits, interviews, and research on wind power, we have consolidated our knowledge into posters and presentations, which are displayed on electronic walls across different floors of the school for promotional purposes. During lunchtime and after school, we also utilize the electronic walls as a platform to educate students and teachers of all grades about disabilities. Through this approach, we aim to reach a wider audience and introduce disabilities to more people.