Accessibility

Blog Post 6

I never really thought about it before, but there are too many times when I take for granted my ability to not only come and go as I please but to have access to any place I wish to go. I live on campus. While this campus is small compared to schools like UGA, it is still big enough to cause limitations for students with disabilities. The school has done its best, in my opinion, to make the buildings accessible to people who are handicap. There are a lot of stairs, but they do have an elevator for handicap students. I would say that everywhere on campus seems accessible to people with disabilities. Even though this is true, I think that this campus is a tough one. Everything is pretty close together, but there are a lot of hills. I think this can limit their participation in activities that I could participate in. If I want to, I am able to go run around the drill field, participate in inter-murals, and be a part of the basketball team. While these people can play on the drill field or play inter-murals, it is harder for them to do so because there are no teams/sports set up for this. It’s not the fact that the areas are inaccessible to the students, it’s that the fact that the schools lacks opportunities for these people to get involved. 
I decided to research limitations of handicap. Kenneth Jernigan is the author, and he states, “By definition a characteristic—any characteristic—is a limitation” (p.1). One example of handicap he used was blindness. The example that he used to describe this is picking teams to play a game of baseball. Who is more likely to be picked? The blind person is very limited on what he can do. Those limitations cause the blind person to be left out or are limited in their participation. 

Works Cited

"Blindness— Handicap or Characteristic." Handicap. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Feb. 2014.