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From: "Laurence Bathurst" <[log in to unmask]>
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Date sent: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 14:36:23 +1100
Subject: Re: simulation exercises
Priority: normal
Hi everyone
I wonder has anyone simulated the experiences of people with
intellectual/developmental disabilities? I was wondering how one might do
this. Perhaps you could do what the woman did (darn...can't remember
her name...she did the 'blue eyes' experiment with kids to show what
racial oppression was like). You could, for an entire week, take control of
every action and thought, squash any self-determination and decision
making, put them on a behaviour modification program, take away all
sexual, financial and other basic human rights, make mundane all
activities, and take them for walks in small groups round and round a
shopping centre (mall). Am I becoming a cynic?
I was also thinking that if students are to know what its like to have a
physical disability and maybe an aquired brain injury, pop them in a chair
and push them down the stairs or in front of a moving car. Sorry folks,
thats awful - but I was just thinking how tempting that is, with some
students :-)
Best regards
Laurence Bathurst
School of Occupation and Leisure Sciences
Faculty of Health Sciences
University of Sydney
P.O. Box 170
Lidcombe NSW 2141
Australia
Phone: (62 1) 9351 9509
Fax: (62 1) 9351 9166
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
Please visit the School's interim web site at
http://www.ot.cchs.usyd.edu.au
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Best regards
Laurence Bathurst
School of Occupation and Leisure Sciences
Faculty of Health Sciences
University of Sydney
P.O. Box 170
Lidcombe NSW 2141
Australia
Phone: (62 1) 9351 9509
Fax: (62 1) 9351 9166
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
Please visit the School's interim web site at
http://www.ot.cchs.usyd.edu.au
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Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious
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