Review of Recreational Therapy
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- Vision Statement
- defines what an organization believes in or values and focuses on the future or end results -focuses on future or end results -focuses on the organization on what the preferred future will look like and provides a description of what the organization will look life if it achieves its true potential
- Mission statement
- -defines reason a TR service exists and the intent that it serves -it clarifies the vision and answers "how will the world be different as a result of providing TR services? -goals (other direction, outcomes, and client benefits derived from the TR service or program, goals support the mission and strategic plans of the organization
- Camp John Marc
- -special camp that serves special needs children by making possible high-quality, year-round camping experiences at Camp John Marc -cooperative programming with health organizations, community volunteers, and pediatric hospitals also dedicated to serving these children
- Camp Hope
- Our Vision -provides therapeutic riding services to as many who are in need as possible -goal: provide services to anyone for free -how the goal will be achieved: excellent teamwork, good planning, well-trained volunteers, willing horses. . .to accomplish the overall mission
- Principles of Quality of Life (central to the person-centered approach)
- -QoL for persons with disabilities is composed of those same factors and relationships that are important to all persons -QoL is experienced when a person's basic needs are met and when he or she has the same opportunities as anyone else to pursue and achieve goals in major life settings of home, community, school, and work -QoL-multidimensional concept that can be consensually validated by a wide range of persons representing a varity of viewpoints of their families, advocates, professionals, and providers -QoL is enhanced by empowering persons to participate in decisions that affect their lives -QoL is an organizing concept that can be used for a number of purposes including evaluating those core dimensions associated with a life of quality, providing direction and reference in approaching customer services, and assessing person's feelings of satisfaction and wll-being
- What are the limiting factors?
- -society tends to isolate or segregate people with disabilities -people with disabilities experience intentional as well as unintentional (and well-meaning) discrimination -discrimination is pervasive, occuring in all levels of soceity -discrimination occurs in critical areas of life, including employment, housing, access to government services, transportation, communication, and recreation -there is no satsifactory legal recourse for peole with disabilites who have experienced discrimination -people with disabilities generally occupy inferior social positions -people with disabilities as a group of individuals, have been powerless to address these social inequities
- What are the two types of barriers?
- 1. intrinsic barriers 2. extrinsic environmental barriers
- Intrinsic barriers
- result from a person's own physical, psychological, or cognitive limitations -it is responsibility of the person to do wahtever is possible to reduce the inconvenience caused by them
- Extrinsic (environmental) barriers
- -things external to people with disabilities that impose limitations upon that person -extrinsic barriers often compound intrinsic barriers
- What is a type of intrinsic barrier?
- Attitudinal barrier
- Attitudinal barrier
- -often predetermined perceptions of people with disabilitie
- When/what type of attitudinal barriers that are intrinsic often become extrinsic?
- negative attitudes
- Attitude
- "learned predisposition" to respond in a consistently favorable or unfavorable manner with respect to a given object
- What are the three ways to change attitudes?
- 1. personal contact and interaction 2. persuasive communication 3. assumption of disability
- Priorities for Barrier Removal
- -provide access from parking areas, sidewalks, and entrances to the public accommodations so a person with a disability can get through the door -provide assess to those areas where goods and services are provided -provide access to restroom facilities when they are open to the public -take other measures to provide access to the goods, services or facilities
- Programmatic Accessibility
- the requirement is that a public entity operate each program so that, when viewed in its entirety, the program is readily accesssible and usable by people with disabilities
- Resonable Accomodations
- -change policies, practices, or procedures -remove transportation barriers -provide auxillary aids or services -remove architectural barriers -remove communication barriers that are structural in nature
- Undue Burden
- -significant difficulty or expense when considered in light of variety of factors, including the nature and cost of the auxiliary aid or service and the overall financial and other resources of the business
- People should be supported by:
- -encouragement and support to achieve their full potential -grant them dignity of risk -help them to live, learn, work, play, and retire in environments of their choice -encourage them to be primary participants in all aspects of the planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of services and supports