SOCIAL RELATIONS FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES

This post will focus on the importance of social relationships for people with disabilities. After high school, maintaining social relationships require more investment work. Most people believe that humans are very sociable beings. At the same time, many would be surprised to learn that some people may not have the same range of friends, family, and acquaintances. There are degrees of closeness or intimacy across relationships. Several factors involve the development and maintenance of relationships. The following five characteristics may pose a challenge for people with disabilities:

• opportunity
• diversity
• continuity
• relationships that are freely chosen and given
• intimacy

This link http://socialrelations.edu.au/MenuBar/AboutUs/WhatisSR.aspx provides an excellent explanation of SOCIAL RELATIONS.

Ability Quest Inc. http://www.abilityquest.org/ is a new non-profit social organization for adults with physical disabilities in Atlanta. They offer monthly activities that increase social interaction that improves and enhances the social skills of individuals.

Disabled Adults Social Activities Foundation Inc. http://www.dasaf.com/ helps to address and meet the social needs of disabled adults by providing a common meeting place and arranging social events where the individual can be given an opportunity to seek out social interactions with their peers.

Modern communication technologies can make social relationships accessible despite distance. The following sites are actual dating sites that specialize in dating for persons with disabilities. The first, Disability Dating Club, is an online dating site with members from, Canada, UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, Turkey and Europe; membership is free. The second, Disabled Dating Info, provides sensitivity information for dating persons with disabilities. My favorite tabs are Dating Advice, First Date, and Dating Tips.

http://www.disabilitydatingclub.com/

http://www.disableds-dating-info.com/