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WHO? WHAT? Mentally Challenged washed out.
Mentally Challenged individuals are excluded from many events that take part in the world. It is not easy for these people to get jobs, make friends and have an equal opportunity in schools. Employers of companies don’t believe that mentally challenged individuals can do a job that requires thinking. There are jobs open at Wal-Mart, Target, King Supers, and many other companies and when those who try to get a job but have to say they have a learning disability it puts a damp on their chances at getting the job. In schools those students who are challenged do no t get looked at as just another student, they are seen as weird and difficult to talk to so not many students who don’t know what it is like to be mentally challenged talk or interact with those who go through it every day.
WHY? Challenged can’t do well? NOT!
‘Mentally challenged individuals have a hard time going into a job and doing the job correctly because of what goes on in their heads.’ This statement is not necessarily true, not all Mentally Challenged people are enable of doing one of the more simple jobs available. The jobs that are open are not that great of jobs, such as a bag boy at King Supers. It may not be a job that anyone would have to work hard at but for a mentally challenged person it is not that easy for them with the challenges they go through in their heads. Being a bag boy to a mentally challenged person would be harder because of the thoughts that run through their minds. Say there was an Autistic person doing this job, being around a lot of noise and people could put them into a sensory over load, but when they do the job and does it right to them that would be a hard job. Mentally challenged individuals can do the simple jobs employers believe are still too hard so why not give them a chance?
Stereotypes: Animals True or False.
There are many stereotypes toward mentally challenged individuals. One of those stereotypes is that people with a mental disorder are like pet animals and don’t do anything to survive or to have fun. A good example to prove that they are not like animals is that they even have their own Olympics, which is called Special Olympics. By this activity, they have learned how to share stuff, how to be in good relationship and how to be more skillful on certain areas. The benefits that have been gained through this Olympics are physically, mentally, socially and spiritually benefits which strengthened families and gave opportunities to have great communication with others and to observe.
What to do to Change the Future.
Employers need to be willing to give everyone a fair chance to get hired. When someone sees that a mentally challenged person is looking for a job, they can try to help them put a resume together. Also not only a helping with their resume, they should definitely help with being a reference for them. Mentally challenged people have some confusion in their brain so some cannot think of the way to stop the marginalization toward them.
