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n.  伤残；无力；无能adj. 伤残的n.  听力；听觉n.  视力n. 综合病征；综合症状小儿麻痹n.  跑道的一圈 ,( 人坐着时 ) 大腿的上方n.  雄心；野心adj.  有雄心的；有野心的n.  口授；听写（的文字）n.  吵闹的；嘈杂的adj.  适合的；适宜的n.  项目；进入；入口adj.  有益的；受益的

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How many different types of disabilities do you know ?

deaf

dumb

sign language

blind lame（跛的，瘸的）

deaf( 聋的 ) /mute( 哑的 )

paralytic/paralyzed( 瘫痪的 )

disabled people

armless

leglesshandless

disabled people

hunchbacked( 驼背的 )

blind

crippled lame

mentally handicapped

paralyzed

How many types of disabilities ?

physical disabilityblind

handless legless

deaf

lame

paralytic

hunchbacked

armless

mute

mental disability

learning difficulty

brain injury…

Types of Disabilities

Physically

disabled

Mentally disabled

blind can’t see

deaf can’t hear

mute can’t speak

lame can’t walk normally

paralytic have no feeling in a certain part of the body

armless

legless

handless

lose a certain part of the body

dwarf a very short and small person

hunchback have a hump( 驼峰 ) on the back

can’t behave properly or normally

blind lamedeaf-mute

armless leglesshandless hunchbacked

paralytic

Disabled people Disabled people

dwarf

Can you name some other great disabled people? And what have they tried to do to overcome these difficulties?

1. Do you know anyone with a

mental or physical disability?

Warming up

1. He is confined( 限制 ) to a wheelchair since he was a young man.

2. He is considered to be the world’s most important living physicist.

3. He's an expert on black holes. 

Stephen Hawking斯蒂芬 · 霍金

Steven Hawking has a muscle disease.He makes great contributions in science.He put forward his theory about blackholes.

He made a research in the beginning of space, matter and time. He put forward his theory about black holes.

physicist / mathematician

Lu Qielei sickness 卢伽雷氏症paralyzed

Steven Hawking

Beethoven 贝多芬

1. He became completely deaf at the age of 35.

2. He was a great musician.

3. The symphony of Fate is his typical works.

Ludwig Von Beethoven

路德维希 · 范 · 贝多芬（ 1770-1827

）

Beethoven was deaf in one ear when hewas 26 and totally deaf at the age of 35.He was a great composer.

1. She lost her eyesight and hearing because of a fever in her childhood.

2. She kept on studying and became a famous writer in American.

3. Her great works "Three days to see" was familiar to people around the world.

Hellen Keller 海伦 · 凯勒

1. She is a deaf( 聋的 ) and dumb( 哑的 ) dancer.

2. She made herself well-known to Chinese people with her wonderful performance of Thousand-Hand Goddess of Mercy in 2005.

Tai Lihua 邰丽华

邰丽华两岁时因高烧注射链霉素失去了听力。 2004 年 9 月，在雅典残疾人奥运会的闭幕式上，《千手观音》一舞世界惊。她曾以表演舞蹈《雀之灵》被广大观众熟知，也是中国惟一登上两大世界顶级艺术殿堂— 美国纽约卡内基音乐厅和意大利斯卡拉大剧院的舞蹈演员。

Deaf-mute

21 位舞者是生活在无声世界的聋哑人 , 他们平均年龄17 岁 , 最小的只有 13 岁。

邰丽华 : 我感觉残疾不是缺陷 ,

而是人类多元化的一个特点 ,

残疾不是不幸 , 只是不便 , 其实每个人的人生都是一样的 , 有圆 ,

有缺 , 有满 , 有空 , 这是你没有办法选择的 , 但是你可以去选择看人生的角度 , 然后带着一颗快乐而感恩的心态去面对人生的不圆满。这就是我对生活的感悟。

1. He is a pianist who lost his arms in an accident when he was 10 years old.

2. He is the winner in the first season of "China’s Got Talent( 中国达人秀 )".

3. He is one of "the Top 10 People Who Moved China" in 2011.

Liu Wei 刘伟

Zhou Zhou, who was

mentally deficient from

his childhood, now has

become a famous

conductor in China.

Hu yizhouHe has a mental disability.His IQ is only 30. (Down’s Syndrome)A famous conductor ( 指挥家） in the Chinese Disabled Art Group

Deng Pufang: son of Deng Xiaoping , paralytic, wheelchair , chairman of the Chinese Disabled Union .

Zhang Haidi: writer , paralytic, in a wheelchair

张海迪 五岁时因患脊髓血管瘤 ,高位截瘫

She got high paraplegia. She teaches herselfmany languages such as English, Japanese,German and has become a famous writerand translator.

Zheng Zhihua :

singer , lame ,

in a wheelchair ,

or supported by crutches(拐杖）

Thomas Edison : scientist and inventor, slightly deaf

Deng Pufang: son of Deng Xiaoping , paralytic, wheelchair , chairman of the Chinese Disabled Union .

Does this disability make it

difficult for them to do some

things? What have they tried

to do to overcome these

difficulties?

What do you learn from tWhat do you learn from these disabled?hese disabled?

They’re broken in body but firm in spirit. （身残志坚）

Think it over

有志者事竟成。

the disabled people

belief optimism

will

patience

confidence

independencedetermination

What spirits and characteristics make the disabled successful?

disability. n. disabled. Adj.

disability既有可数又有不可数。表示“残疾”用作可数 , 表示“无能，劳动能力丧失”用作不可数 ; disabled 表示“残疾的 , 伤残的” , 常用于 the disabled 表“残疾人”

He never gives up his life in spite of his physical _________. And now he calls on the people all over the country to care for the _________.

disability

disabled

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2.Look at the pictures and read what these people have achieved even though they each have a disability. The following list might help you.

mental disability learning difficulty hearing problem

difficulty with eyesight brain injury loss of an arm or a leg

Down's Syndrome infantile paralysis walking difficulty

Rosalyn loves sports. She isproud to havetaken part in competitionsand to have broken arecord by running two laps (800 metres) this year. Her ambition is tobecome part of thenational team forthe next ParalympicGames.

Richard has just passed his university entranceexams. He had the questions read to him and used dictation to give his answers into a special machine. He hopes to become ateacher.

Sally leads a busylife. She likes writing stories and playingbasketball. When she'sfree, she goes to the movies because thesound is 'always very loud. Although somemay think the cinema is noisy, it is suitablefor Sally's condition.

Gao Qiang loves acting.Last year he played amajor part in the school play. Now hisambition isto becomean actor. He takessinging and dancinglessons after school.

Rosalyn is in a wheelchair. She haswalking difficulty.

Richard has very poor eyesight and so notread the questions or write the answers for his college entrance exams.

Sally is hearing impaired (though not deafas she can still understand loud speech inthe cinema).

Gao Qiang was born with Down’s Syndrome,which is a mental disability. Some syndromesufferers have made a good career as actors.

We are going to read an entry on a website called "Family Village". It gives ordinary young people with a disability a chance to tell their personal stories. Glance at the titleand picture, then discuss with a partner what kind of thing you think people would write about and why disabled people find the website beneficial.

The “Family Village” is a _______.

1. To give young disabled people the chance to share their stories with others.

2. To inspire other disabled people.3. To get non-disabled people to u

nderstand more about the challenging life the disabled people lead.

website

The purpose of the website：

A free debateLet me try!

Do you think disabled people can live a happy life as normal people now?

Should disabled students be allowed to go to college? Should they get any extra help? Why or why not?

Yes, they should. Because there are many gifted

disabled students, they can make a contribution

to the society.

They should get some extra help in their

everyday activities.

Disabled people can contribute to society .