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Admin Post: Drawing Challenge #17 - Disability Diversity
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This is the fourth (and final) in our series of Diversity challenges. The goal of this particular challenge is to portray persons of diverse physical and mental abilities.
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A disability is any condition of the body or mind (impairment) that makes it more difficult for the person with the condition to do certain activities (activity limitation) and interact with the world around them (participation restrictions).
There are many types of disabilities, such as those that affect a person’s:
Although people with disabilities sometimes refers to a single population, this is actually a diverse group of people with a wide range of needs. Two people with the same type of disability can be affected in very different ways. Some disabilities may be hidden or not easy to see.
According to the World Health Organization, disability has three dimensions:
A round-up post for submissions to this challenge will be done on Saturday 12th May, 2018.
Happy Drawing, everyone! :)
Challenge #17: Disability Diversity
Create a drawing featuring a disabled person.
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A disability is any condition of the body or mind (impairment) that makes it more difficult for the person with the condition to do certain activities (activity limitation) and interact with the world around them (participation restrictions).
There are many types of disabilities, such as those that affect a person’s:
- Vision
- Movement
- Thinking
- Remembering
- Learning
- Communicating
- Hearing
- Mental health
- Social relationships
Although people with disabilities sometimes refers to a single population, this is actually a diverse group of people with a wide range of needs. Two people with the same type of disability can be affected in very different ways. Some disabilities may be hidden or not easy to see.
According to the World Health Organization, disability has three dimensions:
- Impairment in a person’s body structure or function, or mental functioning; examples of impairments include loss of a limb, loss of vision or memory loss.
- Activity limitation, such as difficulty seeing, hearing, walking, or problem solving.
- Participation restrictions in normal daily activities, such as working, engaging in social and recreational activities, and obtaining health care and preventive services.
A round-up post for submissions to this challenge will be done on Saturday 12th May, 2018.
Happy Drawing, everyone! :)
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Fave Characters with Disabilities
- Avatar: The Last Airbender has Toph, who is blind.
- Barbara Gordon/Oracle from DCU.
- Furiosa from Mad Max: Fury Road.
You guys should feel free to add some of your own fandom faves to the list. :)
Re: Fave Characters with Disabilities
Amputees: Misty Knight, Luke Skywalker, Hiccup from How To Train your Dragon
Also: Eliza Esposito from The Shape of Water can't speak.
Re: Fave Characters with Disabilities
Diefenbaker (deaf) and Turnbull (I don‘t even know. I just read a meta which argued that he might have „mild form of dyscalculia,“ though his eccentric social interactions are much more prominent in my mind)
I‘m not doing them but maybe someone would like to draw Sheldon or Amy from BigBangTheory?
Re: Fave Characters with Disabilities
Re: Fave Characters with Disabilities
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Disability, Representation, and the X-Men
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"disabled characters in media can humanize disability and normalize assistive devices so that people in the real world know how to behave around disabled friends, colleagues, and strangers without needing disabled people to explain it to them directly."
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