Module 2: WHO CARES?

(Page 12) Worksheet 2

WHAT IS MY ATTITUDE?

Answer the following questions on a separate paper.

1. How do you feel when you see a person with obvious disabilities?
2. What difficulties do you have when meeting disabled people?
3. Why are people with disabilities often treated as if they were stupid?
4. What are the difficulties a disabled person might have to overcome in relation to other people's reactions and in society as a whole?
5a. Do you have any particular difficulties to overcome in doing what is asked of you in school?
5b. How does this affect the way you see yourself and how others treat you?
5c. How do you try to overcome this handicap?

Some teenagers who are learning to
live with disability were asked the
following questions. Answer them
yourself and then compare your
answers with theirs which you will be
given.

6. What is a real friend?
7. Do you need others' help? If so in
what ways?
8. What do you want to be and do in
your life?
9. What do you find most difficult?
10. What gives you the greatest
happiness?