Paralympians
- 2012
1. Who
are they? Definition and categories:
The paralympic
Games is a major international multi sport event, for people with
disabilities.
The paralymbians are
athletes with a range of physical and intellectual disabilities, including
mobility disabilities, amputations, blindness, and cerebral palsy.
2. What
challenges do they face? Personal / social?
Paralympians strive
for equal treatment with non-disabled Olympic athletes, but there is a large
funding gap between Olympic and Paralympic athletes.
3. What
have they achieved so far?
They have achieved that they can compete
with anything in their way with the Olympics
4. When
did the Paralympics start?
Vocabulary:
Disability: lack of adequate power, strength, or physical or mental
Amputee: a person who has lost all or part of an arm, hand, leg, etc.
Cerebral palsy: A form of paralysis believed to be caused by a prenatal
brain defect or
by brain injury during birth, most marked
in certain motor areas and characterized by
difficulty in control of the voluntary muscles.
Intellectual disability: Is a disability characterized by significant
limitations both in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior, which
covers many everyday social and practical skills. This disability originates
before the age of 18
Dwarfism: the condition of being a dwarf
Multiple sclerosis: A chronic degenerative, often episodic disease of the central nervous system marked by patchy destruction of the myelin that surrounds and insulates nerve fibers,
Congenital disorder: A defect that is present at birth
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