Defensive Driving As drivers, we often ignore the golden rule of driving safely and defensively. There are many reasons why we do not drive defensively. Perhaps we have become too complacent, or perhaps we are in a hurry. When we ignore the opportunity to drive safely, we place our lives and the lives of others in a danger zone. To drive safely and defensively, we must remember a few simple rules.
They can also be discriminated against by people overwhelming them too much. For example when someone insists on helping them with everything because by helping them with everything they are still being treated as if they are something less than human. Still they are being treated as obviously different and in doing so it can also make them offended and lose confidence in the things they are capable of doing themselves. Individual with additional needs are also not employed because of their disability as they are seen as less skill people. This can be a barrier for them because it means they cannot achieve their own dreams and goals in life as well cannot be independent and control over their life.
Nowadays there are many offending things out there that nobody is safe from being offended. There are a couple simple things people can do to avoid offensive things if they do not like them. For example, the Pompeii statue, if one doesn’t like to look at this and finds it offensive to oneself, then the simple thing to do is to not go near it and look at it. You don’t have to go to the city and demand it be removed. Simply just avoid the statue.
Deviance in Social Norms How people react to deviations of their daily routines and social norms can be both interesting, and in my opinion, quite comical. Deviance, by definition, “refers to behavior that violates social norms or to persons that engage in such behavior”. (Orcutt 2004, p1) Studying the social norms or standards about deviant behaviors has shown me how un-tolerated it can be. Breaking American social norms, such as shopping out of other people’s carts instead of off of the designated shelves for merchandise, can create anger and havoc in otherwise peaceful people. Each of the reactions to my deviant behavior of shopping out of another’s cart was met with anguish.
For example if we had an visual impairment we may not be able to read written material which is important to us such as a bank statement. A person with hearing loss could miss hear important Information such as someone shouting them to warn them of a danger. The environment around a person with sensory loss can have a large impact on a person. For example if a a person parks a car on the curb instead of next to the curb. This can cause a person with visionary loss a great deal of distress.
The more severe symptoms include: hallucinations, hiding things, paranoia, violence, and wandering. Wandering is particularly hazardous because the person with sundowners will unexpectedly be missing and may not know where he or she is going or why. People with sundowner’s dementia have turned up lost and unable to find their way back home. So proper identification is recommended. They may also mimic you by following you around and doing everything you do, ask you questions over and over, interrupt you when you’re speaking to someone else, and they may also lose their full language abilities or abstract thoughts that may become difficult for you to
Finally, the lack of respect for the law, police, and emergency vehicle contributes to dangerous situations on the roadways. For instance, drivers who fail to pull over when emergency vehicles are passing can cause a delay for a person’s treatment or worse, an accident. Even with the recent banning of cell phone use while driving, people continue their bad and illegal habits. They talk, text, use face book, and even skype without regards to others. Clearly, a lack of respect for other drivers, pedestrians, and the law is a major problem in our society.
People come from different cultures therefore in some cultures one thing could mean a different things from the other,so this could end in missunderstanding and missing information. Sensory barriers is onother issue for people who cannot hear or see,they cannot receive information or pass over if they have impairment to one or both senses. Environment is an issue for those who have disabilities,let say a service user in a wheel chair cannot erach to make eye contact with the receptionist,for communicating could be affected,or might be a dimly lit room and someone who cant see might have difficulties to read or see propely. Using slangs is also not a good thing to do,and people might interpret different. To use a technical language could be scary for the service user as he doesn't understand the terms and start worrying about what is going to happen is case you might, let say ,wanna take the service user to hospital to give blood to make sure on his health.
Indirect- Subconsciously discriminating against somebody or a group of people Discrimination exists in almost all care settings. Although there are laws put into place forbidding discrimination from occurring, care professionals are often unaware that it is going on. Discrimination affects an individual in a way which reduces their self-esteem and confidence. It can also affect the person's trust and comfortableness in the care setting and therefore, potentially making them leave. This could have a massive effect on their education or health for example.
Also non-verbal types of communication can be taken the wrong way as people interpret messages wrong as they don’t have tone of voice to direct them or the fact that people often use short hand when texting which can be misunderstood. In professional places we often use acronyms that can make understanding conversations difficult. In meetings where parents and carers are present it is important not to use there acronyms as it could cause an alienation of the parents and carers who we really need to keep onside. I have attended meetings where I have felt out of