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To add to the comments and discussions people are having about the video "Rory O'Shea was here" I would like to post my thoughts from a comment paper I wrote:
A point I found very interesting was how Goble’s article talked mostly about supports from other people, while Priestly’s article got into the use of assistive devices. Priestly is saying that if one can get by using assistive devices then he/she may be viewed as more independent because then they are not only dependent on other people (1963: 121). I think this is very interesting because as we saw in the in-class video titled “Rory O’Shea Was Here”, when Michael was given an electric toothbrush (an assistive device) he thought that he would now be able to brush his teeth by himself. This was not the case as he was unable to properly hold the toothbrush and a person therefore had to keep picking it up off the ground for him when he dropped it. Although assistive devices may be great for some people, and for some situations, I think that one still desires to have human contact and the use of assistive devices, if working effectively, may cut out human contact to a large extent.