1. Who
are they? Definition and categories:
-
Athletes
with a range of physical and intellectual disabilities, including mobility
disabilities, amputations.
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Categories:
- wheel chair – blind – ampute – cerebral palsy – mental disabilities and
others.
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Judgment
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Environment
3. What
have they achieved so far?
-
Medals
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Self confidence
-
Love and
respect
-
New dream
4. When
did the Paralympics start?
1960 – Rome,
Italy
Vocabulary:
Disability: lack of
adequate power, strength, or physical or mental ability.
Amputee: a person who
has lost all or part of an arm, hand, leg, etc.
Cerebral
palsy: a form
of paralysis believed to be caused by a prenatal brain defect or by brain
injury during birth, most marked in certain motor areas and characterized by
difficulty in control of the voluntary muscles.
Intellectual
disability: a
disability characterized by significant limitations both in intellectual
functioning and in adaptive behavior, which covers many everyday social and
practical skills. This disability originates before the age of 18.
Dwarfism: the condition
of being a dwarf or dwarfed.
Multiple
sclerosis: a
chronic degenerative, often episodic disease of the central nervous system
marked by patchy destruction of the myelin that surrounds and insulates nerve
fibers, usually appearing in young adulthood and manifested by one or more mild
to severe neural and muscular impairments, as spastic weakness in one or more
limbs, local sensory losses, bladder dysfunction, or visual disturbances.
Congenital disorder: a
defect that is present at birth
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