My rights are about to be violated – what to do?
Exercise 11.
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From unit: Learning about your rights
Personal development Rights
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More than 30 minutes
Individually
Pedagogical guide for educator
This exercise aims to show the AAWID that although we all are granted specific rights sometimes they could be violated, and in many cases from people who are very close to us. The exercise contains a story and one Activity 1 entitled “Violated rights”. The story explains a similar situation where an ageing man with ID is forced by his brother to leave his home and move to a social institution for elderly people with ID.
Steps:
- The educator and AAWID read the story carefully and have a short discussion on it;
- Then he provides to the AAWID a list and a pen and challenges him to answer the question of which of the main character’s rights are about to be violated by his brother and in what way. Depending on the level of understanding of AAWID the educator can use the cards with the rights/wishes from the previous exercises and can ask the AAWID to list them orally instead of writing them on a piece of paper.
- The educator could assist AAWID by asking him supporting questions like:
- Is it a wish that Philip wants to keep on living in his house? Why do you think so?
- Has he the right to decide where to live? Why do you think so?
- Has Philip’s brother the right to decide on the name of Philip and their mother? Why do you think so?
| Note: It is important, regardless of the answer given by the AAWID, both the educator and the AAWID to discuss well the rights indicated by AAWID and to discuss together and in more detail the correct answers. |