SR04

Title: SR04
Type: Interview
Date: November 12th, 2018
Description: The respondent is a Syrian man from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is a small business-owner, teaches at a local university/college, and is currently completing a PhD. He has a teenage child and two other children who are young adults (one is a female who suffers from high anxiety). He also discussed his own sports-related injury. He offered perspectives on how these issues are treated in the United States and Middle East. Although he had never witnessed discrimination against himself or his family related to differences in ability, he noted the importance of giving as much care as you can, and how in predominantly Muslim countries care towards differences in ability is not publicly displayed. He describes care as a strongly familial practice, but he emphasizes that people need to understand the stresses that other people endure in order to better accommodate their needs.
Language: English
Subject: Caregivers, physical injury, anxiety, accommodation, understanding, adults with disabilities, critical thinking in assessing credibility of information and sources, secrecy around mental/emotional ability differences, learning curve in becoming educated and taking action, Syria, United States, 2018,Disability