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Disability Awareness

Overview

What is a disability? How can we as Christians better serve persons with disabilities? This honor helps create awareness about those who are differently abled.

Requirements

1. Become familiar with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

  • a. Know the date it was signed into law.
  • b. Know the name of the United States President who signed it.

2. Know the main points of the Americans with Disabilities Act and explain who this legislation affects the lives of the people with disabilities in a positive way.

3. Define the “legal” definition of a disability.

4. Create positive sounding words and phrases by rewriting 10 commonly used terms.

5. Choose one specific physical disability and give an oral report on how a person with that disability could successfully function in the following areas:

  • a. School
  • b. Camping
  • c. Transportation
  • d. Witnessing

6. Conduct an accessibility survey of your church and make a list of things that need to be changed in order to better accommodate people with disabilities.

Answer key & resources

In other territories

The equivalent honor approved by other authorities, with its own requirements:

Patch history

Earlier designs of this patch. See all outdated insignia.

Old Disability Awareness patch

Disability Awareness

Changed in an unknown year

Specific only to the Florida Conference, this patch originally had a white background. The background was recolored to gray to match all other FL-only honors.

See also

Adapted from AY Honors/Disability Awareness on the Pathfinder Wiki, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. See the original page's history for its authors.
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