Here are some of the key ideas you will need to understand in this module.
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Relationships
Fulfilling personal relationships are important to everyone and are essential for personal growth and development. Stimulating, lasting and satisfying relationships with family, friends and partners are a high priority for most people, including people with disabilities. Unfortunately, some people may incorrectly believe that people with disabilities are not capable of or do not need to form the same types of relationships as people without disabilities. This thinking is damaging and needs to be changed.
Family
Belonging to a family
The word “family” can mean different things to different people. Families come in many forms, but something that they all have in common is that they provide a sense of belonging. Families can provide an environment for learning and development and safety and security.
Family responses to disability
Every family responds differently to disability. One family may find it difficult to accept the birth of a child with an impairment, another may simply be afraid and need more information about what the future holds, while a third may celebrate the birth of their child. CBR needs to understand where each family is coming from and help them in their unique situation.
Sexuality
Sexuality is an important part of life. The topic can be sensitive in some societies and in some communities it might be assumed that people with disabilities are asexual, infertile or have an overly high sex drive. At the same time, persons with disabilities are at higher risk of sexual violence and sexually transmitted diseases (see Supplementary module: CBR and HIV/AIDS).
Marriage and parenthood
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It is often assumed that people with disabilities will automatically have children with disabilities. There is also a common belief that they will not be able to care for and support their children independently. In extreme cases, people with disabilities, particularly adolescent girls and women with intellectual impairments, have been sterilized without their knowledge or consent.
The CRPD Article 23 states that persons with disabilities have the human right to marry and having a family and have access to reproductive and family planning education.
Violence
Violence can occur in every part of society, within families and institutions, and in schools, workplaces, and the community; many different people are responsible. People with disabilities are disproportionately susceptible to violence, particularly because of stigma, negative beliefs and ignorance. They are at increased risk of becoming victims of exploitation, involving physical, sexual and emotional abuse, neglect and financial exploitation
Women with disabilities in particular may be exposed to forced sterilization andsexual violence.
Welcome to INCLUDE! This short tour will introduce you to the many resources available to you in our
learning community.
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This is the Module library page. It is the first thing you will see after you register and log into INCLUDE.
From here, you can choose to view nine different learning modules, each of which examines a different aspect of Community-Based Rehabilitation.
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Each time you make a selection from the Module library, you will enter a learning module (in this case the Health module) that you can interact with in a number of ways.
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You will have a number of opportunities to reflect on your thoughts, feelings and experiences related to CBR, as well as on what you have learned so far. If you want, you can choose to share your reflections with other members of the INCLUDE community.
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Note that when you are inside a learning module, you use the Continue and Back buttons at the bottom of the screen to move ahead to the next page, or go back to the previous page.
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You can also choose to jump directly to a different part of the current module by making a selection from the menu on the left side of the screen.
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In each learning module, you will also have the opportunity to respond to poll questions and learn what others in the INCLUDE community are thinking about CBR.
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You can also review numerous real-life examples of how others are successfully implementing CBR around the world.
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And you can create an action plan to help you:
•Better understand the needs of your programme, and
•Take specific, concrete steps to address them
As with reflections, if you want, you can also choose to share your action plan with other members of the community.
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Additional resources are available any time you want to access them, frrom the menu at the top of every screen.
From the Reflect option on this menu, you can:
•Review all of the reflections you have entered so far, or
•View the reflections other members of the INCLUDE community have entered and chosen to share
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Under Action Plan, you can:
•Work on your own action plan, or
•View action plans that other members of the community have created and chosen to share
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You can also view the full library of real-life examples of CBR in action from this menu.
If you want to locate the examples that are most relevant to your work, you can filter these examples by subject and region, as well as by the gender and age(s) of the population being served.
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In the Community section you can:
•Participate in conversations (discussions) with other members of the INCLUDE community
•View the results of every poll question included in the course
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Finally, you can view a set of additional resources related to CBR in the Resource library.
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Finally, you can view a set of additional resources related to CBR in the Resource library.
