Working Thesis: Over the years disabled Americans have struggled to stay afloat in America’s society and were viewed as being incapable, thus leading to laws that allow almost anyone to claim disability and receive financial and physical assistance, causing difficulty for the truly disabled to get what they need to be viewed as capable.
"AACN Practice Guidelines." SpringerReference (n.d.): n. pag. Web. In the article, it discusses how there are several principles that assist non-disabled people with working with people with disabilities. In the same order of the article, these are the six principles. People believe that the disabled are capable of doing. Second, people don’t believe that disabled can be more capable or of assistance once their “problem is fixed”. Next it goes on to discuss that disability is mostly just a political term and that now the technology that people possess allow people who are disabled the same opportunity to work and be assistance to our society. The fourth principle is that disabled people have an identity and a culture and fifth, people can still be joyful and have happiness with a disability.
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The passage in the book discuss how because of the lack of employers and people having a bad “job situation”, people are now claiming disability. People who are fraudulently claiming disability claim to “know the system” and how to deceive it. Of course this enrages people who actually are disabled and who still work for income as well.The book then goes on to talk about how when non-disabled people fake it, then it changes the way people who are truly disabled and do need the benefits are perceived. Because of the scammers, some disabled people feel ashamed to say that they are on benefits since people mostly assume that if you are on benefits you are just “playing the