Conversation Questions: Disabilities and Handicaps

• Do you have a handicap?
• Do you know anyone with a handicap?
• What are some handicaps that people have?
• Have you ever parked in the handicapped parking area?
• How are handicapped people treated in your country?
• What do you feel when you see a handicapped person?
• What can you do to help handicapped people?
• Does your country have special training facilities for handicapped people?
• What are some types of disabilities?
• Did you ever know someone with a disability?
• What was it like to work/talk/play with them?
• Were they smarter or less smart than yourself?
• How would you feel to find out your best friend was _______? (going blind, going deaf, losing their legs, etc)
• How would you feel to find out you were _______? (going blind, going deaf, losing their legs, etc)
• Do disabled people have anything of value to add to society?
• If you see or meet a disabled person, what actions should you take?
• What are ways that disabled people can compensate for their weakness?

  After a blindfolded walk, relying on a partner...

• How did you feel starting the walk?
• Did you trust your partner?
• How do you feel now? How do you feel about your partner? (closer/more trusting...fearful)
• What did you learn about disabled people?
• What are things you had to do because you were blind?