Talk to Me: Treating People with Intellectual Disabilities with Respect

Whether you are in a health care or other professional environment or just having a personal conversation, consider these basic rules for communicating with a person with an intellectual disability.

[floatingpointerror]

Someone who does not respect people with intellectual disability does not deserve it either

[polymolliejolly]

I’m currently 15 right now with a intellectual disability. I’ve been through many meetings since I was in grade 2. I’m averaging a 77 in school right now, and it’s been hard because I have had suicidal thoughts because I hated the way I think. I feel useless to this world, and no one will need me because I learn differently. I don’t know who I am, or what my purpose is, I have no care for others, because I don’t even care about myself. Since I was little I’ve always have wanted to be a helicopter pilot. But as time went by and I started to realize how difficult it would be I gave up on everything.
I lost something in me. I have so many things I want to fix about myself, but I don’t know how! I’m very sad, and I wish I was smart like the girls at my school! I wanna be normal like people at my school! It’s not fair to be me!!

[WilmaT.Ranque]

I am a Special Education teacher, I care all disabilities because I believe everyone are unique that God created with a skills and talents and that's a gift. ❤❤❤

[davidtichborne]

thanks I have a intellectual disability and mental health problems I am a special Olympian who's gone to proventials for track basketball and floor hockey and I'm going to college myself to study in psychology I also believe though that there is help and hope somewhere out there for people no matter what challenges disabilities health problems that they have I bet somewhere there's help and hope whatever you're struggles are i hope you get the help and support that you need

[rachaelpino]

Not only should people in the health care industry treat people with respect, but EVERYONE should

[anakinskywalker]

I am a college graduate and I want to help people with intellectual disability since I have not much time left on earth I can't do it I have stage 4 lung cancer and I really feel that I am dying I sleep almost the whole day.And I want to keep battelling for these people even if it would be useless now because my treatments and kimo therapy failed.and I belive that these people has a talent that will show someday.I can prove it I have dyxlexia But after a few years of me being diagnosed with it at age 7 I discovered that I am good in Studying and art I am top 1 overall living with a disability doesn;t make you different from the rest but you are unique in evreything.

[joshsmith]

I 15 I suck at math so much I have really bad motivation and I think I'll be homless when I grow up I think I'll fail high school because Im not getting the help I need I'm always sad and I'm in a special class but I'm really unmotivated I'm hurting I think I'm to far behind from everyone else in my school to get better in my special class we do nothing but basic math and they dont push me at all and I think even if they did push me I dont have the motivation to try I was born with brain damage because my mum drunk alcohol when I was being born I cry myself to sleep most nights I need someone to talk to

[flowerlotus]

I am a highschool graduate as for me i dislike the fact i get treated with more disrepescect cause of my id its rude and yet some lf us are able to do work most people have to work at with more ease for me i suck at english and math and yet im called when theirs heavy objects to move i find it inexcuseable to treat me other other like me less then normal

[dominicdixon]

I have a learning disability ADHD trouble paying attention I repeat myself a lot

[patrickrichmond]

This is a great video. This should teach us that people with disabilites have talents too. Parliament in London still needs to be jumped all over. Until just recently Parliament granted more rights to mothers with buggies than to those in wheelchairs. Doug Paulley soon straighten them up.

[jonathanthompson]

I have intellectual disabitly and I have a six year old boy but I never stop fighting myself or anyone else who has a disabitly we are all
Beautiful in my ways and we have a lot to give and show to others out their

[moniquerussell]

Why do videos like this only show the people that are verbal and have a higher capacity?! Show the nonverbal behavior ones as well!!

[divinebeing]

I work with disabled people my client has cerebral palsy and I love him

[cartconrad]

I have an intellectual disability and many physical disabilities now I did Special Olympics as well and also I was never told I was really going to make anything out of myself I did I went to college I became a firefighter I was told none of those things whatever happened but they did I did so much only to have it all taken really away due to blood clots many times over and severe chronic pain I can understand and what he talking have many disabilities is very most people tell that did know I have disabilities bet sometimes there telling the truth or not there very hard when people make fun of me because of it its happen many but do not give up

[davidbush]

As someone who has a mentally disabled cousin and was in special Ed myself. I always had respect for them.

[emmae]

Good video but I wish the statistics at the beginning were read. I am visually impaired so it would be helpful.

[ltxecty]

I have ADHD since I was four or five it been really rough on me sometime but I go to special Olympics every year I never missed a year of special Olympics and for my extreme hyperactivity running is my favorite and I like to help people out and I always worry for people and I always think outside the box and ADHD is special needs I'm now 15 years old

[blueebt]

I'm a 34 year old New Zealander that has a 4 year old daughter and yes I'm special needs too with a learning disability and I'm not good at reading sometimes and my spelling still sucks thank you for spell check but even when I went to school I too still had to go through people bulling me verbally and sometimes physically that's also how my friends and I learnt how to fight for us no one is going to come we are on our own and even with there eyes you can still see the judgement some of the teacher adds or students that volunteer or for their University they would be nice to us at school but in public no they didn't want to know us talked about us with there friends and laughed at us so we didn't entirely trust people and stop saying hello to them in public after that we went to Hamilton North school for special needs and there was a age that we could stay at school or leave after we were 18 I stayed until I was 21 because that's what my Dad signed for. I also played basketball we would be in news papers and tv talking about our special needs I was always scared because for me we were putting ourselves out there and could be targets for anyone that wanted to target us and now my new scare is that even though I look normal I'm scare that some people that had bullied me in the past will recognise me with a child and think she's special needs she shouldn't have a child she's not capable to look after a child and try and take my child away from me people keep telling me that's not going to happen but that doesn't help at all it's always going to be there thank you for listening.

[lisarougier]

I've got some difficultys as well and what i don't like is when people don't want to treat you fairly don't take you seriously like any other person and some people just want to judge you wrong. All because that you have got a problem it doesn't mean that you are the problem evreybodys got problems nobody's purfect

[jshir]

I'd love to make a movie about my experiences with intellectual disability, autism, mental illness to show the world