Experience disability

On July 3, 2021, visitors were able to experience disability at a stand in the Frauentor City Center in Görlitz. The stand was initiated by lecturer Dr. Carsten Rensinghoff  and was part of the seminar course "Self-awareness as a driver of inclusion". Rensinghoff himself experiences life as a disabled person on a daily basis. In 1982, at the age of twelve, he suffered a severe craniocerebral injury. Since then, he has lived with spastic hemiplegia on his left side and is physically disabled.

The students of the Shb 18 matriculation course in Curative Education/Inclusion Studies at Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences focused here on perceptual impairments. By drawing a star, it was possible to experience impaired eye-hand coordination because the drawing was only carried out by looking into a mirror. Another visual irritation is naming the visible color when the color is written down differently. An example: the text is written in "black", but the font color is red. In this case, "red" must be named. In the case of specific disabilities, this leads to irritations that are not apparent to the unaffected person. This problem is often the result of a neurological disease such as a stroke.