Different Types of Disabilities

It is the inability to see. Visual impairment or low vision is a severe reduction in vision that cannot be corrected with standard glasses or contact lenses and reduces a person's ability to function at certain or all tasks. [medical-dictionary]

Some Constraints of Persons With Disabilities

Hopefully PH will have this one. 

1. Difficulties in Transportation

Here and abroad we have different types of transportation. We have buses, jeepneys, trains, taxis, airplane, boat, and many more. As person with disability, it is our concern to have an accessible transportation because just like any other person, we would love to see and experience also the beauty of the world through travelling. Not to mention, some important travels that we do for work, education, and leisure. 

Most of the time, esp for wheelchair person we experience difficulties in transportation and we cannot deny the fact that its really challenging on how we deal such difficulties. 

Fun Run for People on Wheels in the PH

A "FUN RUN" organized by the Philippine Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine (PARM) thru its Making Ourselves Vigilant to Exercise (MOVE) Pilipinas RUN 2013. This was in celebration of the 35th National Disability Prevention and Rehabilitation Week. A simulataneous celebration of the entire PWD (Person With Disability) sector in the country. Also to celebrate and remember the birthday of the "sublime paralytic" Apolinario Mabini, who was known to be one the Filipino hero.

Last July 21, 2013 at exactly 4:30am, Manila, Tacloban, and Davao simutaneously had the PARM MOVE PILIPINAS RUN 2013.

Pilipinos With Disabilities (PWD) partylist on May Election

Finally, for the very first time, a group of Persons With Disabilities will be running in the party-list system this coming May Election in the Philippines. The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has approved the application to participate in this year’s elections. Its representatives are visually-impaired Michael Barredo, orthopedically-impaired Manuel Agcaoili, Adeline Ancheta, Octavio Gonzales and Luis Arrelano – all of whom are persons with disabilities and have worked with and for  PWD sector in the community.

"They are represented by Filipinos, all of them are disabled. Right now we don't have a representation of the disabled," Comelec chair Sixto Brillantes Jr. said Wednesday in explaining their decision regarding PWD application.

“’Yung nominess nila, talaga namang disabled. Pangalawa, may track record sila of working with and for persons with disabilities,” added commissioner Rene Sarmiento, who heads the special voters’ registration for PWDs.

Pilipinos With Disabilities partylist is dedicated to advocate for the rights and promote the interests of persons with disabities. To take actions and be part of the development in the society.

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Davao Wheelchair Ballroom: The SayaWheels

Folks, i would like to share this video of mine dancing again. I did the same when i was still inside the PBB house but with this version, we added another type of ballroom- Samba. So check this out if i pass. lol.

By the way, my partner in here was my student when i was still teaching in college. Her name is Sheila. She's not a pro but she can dance.

Addressing Accessibility in the Tourism Sector

Like the general population, the term ‘persons with disabilities(PWDs)” encompasses a diversity of individuals with different levels of ability and different requirements for travelling. There is a wide range of impairments, including those to do with mobility, sight, or hearing, as well as learning difficulties and allergies. Many PWDs are keen to travel, but wide variation in the level of access within destinations and across the nation generally, combined with poor information and negative experiences, discourages potential customers. Improved accessibility will not only result in economic benefits to the tourism industry but will also assist the move towards full social integration. Unnecessary barriers should be the starting point for thinking about access. Instead of concentrating on an individual’s impairment, tourist facilities and destinations should focus on the barriers to access created by: