Instruction
Disability in the Media
What are your personal biases?
Why do you feel this way and how can you help improve your biases?
Do you feel this bias(es) will affect your ability to work?
Read the Article, “Changing Attitudes Changing the World: Media Portrayal of People with Intellectual Disabilities.”
http://www.specialolympics.org/uploadedFiles/LandingPage/WhatWeDo/Research_Studies_Desciption_Pages/Policy_paper_media_portrayal.pdf (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
1-What were the different mediums that were investigated in the study discussed in the paper
i. Discuss some of the behaviors the study looked at ii. Thoughts on differences between entertainment vs print?
2-Discuss a few of the major takeaways, from your standpoint, in this article.
3-Name a depiction you have seen, whether in life or media, of an individual with intellectual disability. In general, how were they depicted?
Pick a movie from below and answer the following questions:
1-What is the categorization and diagnosis/disability shown?
2-Identify some stereotypes from the movie
3-Identify some negative and positive outlooks from the movie
4-Honest thoughts on the portrayal
The movies:
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?
I Am Sam
Forrest Gump
Benny & Joon
Rain Man
Daredevil
Philadelphia
A Beautiful Mind
The Bone Collector
Kings Speech
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Scent of a Woman