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my friends post are attachedMaster of DISASTER MANAGEMENT.The course is EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS FOR SPECIAL NEEDS POPULATIONS-Response to two of my classmates.The question was :1) After reading an emergency operations plan of your choosing identify and list five (5) instances where special needs populations are included in the planning process and another five (5) where they have been overlooked.2) Utilizing the lists generated above, start thinking about the groups within the community that could be called upon to assist with including different segments of the special needs population. What resources do they possess? What conflicts may arise? -Instructions:-Look at the two of my classmates posts. I need you to respond to each of them in a full-page (3-4 paragraphs).-All you need to do is to choose one point of the post and explore it a little bit with at least one source support. Also, you can add a little bit new relevant to the topic. In the attachment, you will find my classmates posts.(ACADEMIC WRITING) One Page (3 or 4) paragraphs for each of them.1- Use APA Style format 6th edition. Including in-text citation.2- Use Grammarly program to change all the mistakes that give you because my university uses and depends on it3- Use simple academic words as a second language.4- Avoid the passive voice absolutely.5- Avoid start new sentence with unclear subject such as (THIS).please meet the requirements. response_1.docx Unformatted Attachment Preview Response 1 : The instances when special needs populations are included in the planning process include the provisions set to evacuate special needs individuals, provisions made for offering mass care services for people with special needs. Further, the instances where special needs are overlooked include maintaining security, especially for children susceptible to sexual predators. For example, during the Southeast Asian Tsunami, Interpol warned people against sexual predators who masqueraded as aid (Gross, 1996). The mental health needs of children may be disregarded in the event of hazardous activity. Other people may be accidentally overlooked, for example, the hearing impaired who cannot hear announcements made through public address systems. Moreover, vaguely defining groups by a mental or physical disability may cause their problems not to be addressed, such as lowincome citizens without cars would need transport to be offered. Non-English speakers could also be overlooked and fail to get assistance during and emergency. Some of the groups within the community that could be called upon include social services, the American Red Cross and Social Services. The Red Cross offers food for volunteers, patients, and emergency workers (Sorensen, 2006). They also alert the next of kin about the deceased and injured and unites the wounded with their relatives. Social Services takes care of the special needs of orphans, the disabled, children who separated from their loved ones, and the elderly. One conflict that could arise include authority, which hinders the provision of services. Further, many groups are within an area that causes competition amongst themselves despite sharing a vague vision about their existence in that region. References Gross, K. C. (1996). Guide for all-hazard emergency operations planning. FEMA. Retrieved from https://www.fema.gov/pdf/plan/slg101.pdf Sorensen, B. V. (2006). Populations with special needs. Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Retrieved from https://dhhr.wv.gov/healthprep/about/archives/Documents/ORISE\%20PopulationSpe cialNeeds\%202006.pdf Response 2 : 1) After reading an emergency operations plan of your choosing identify and list five (5) instances where special needs populations are included in the planning process and another five (5) where they have been overlooked. I have explored a school emergency operations plan (SEOP) that was developed in 2016 for Leechburg Area School District, which is located in Pennsylvania. Focusing in providing the needs for those having disabilities or special needs is one of the significant intend of this SEOP. Here are five instances in which this group of people have been included in the plan: 1- 1- Paying a great attention in evacuating and transporting students with special needs such as blindness, emotional disabilities, hearing loss, and physical disabilities. 2- 2- Setting a designating areas and gates for these people during evacuation and transportation to avoid crowding with those having no functional needs. 3- 3- Including those students who may require additional help while being temporarily on crutches in the planning process. 4- 4- Providing the secretaries and administrators with the list of students who have special needs in order to support them during any hazard that may occur. 5- 5- Including those students who have limited English proficiency to be treated as special needs during disasters. Another five instances where they have been overlooked: 1- 1- Although the school pay a huge attention to support special needs in the SEOP, there are no mentioning regarding involving them in the drill exercises. 2- 2- The SEOP is not translated for those students who are non-English speakers. 3- 3- The school should inform the responders who will come from outside about how many students have disabilities and what these are. 4- 4- Students with special needs require special communication process which is not provided in this EOP. 5- 5- This SEOP provides designated areas for students with disabilities during evacuations, but there are no designated areas for them during sheltering inside the school. 2) Utilizing the lists generated above, start thinking about the groups within the community that could be called upon to assist with including different segments of the special needs population. What resources do they possess? What conflicts may arise? The school has its own trained personnel who will likely be the first responders when disasters occur. However, the need for such well-developed personnel in terms of disaster management will be critical, particularly during major disasters. Thus, during these major incidents, I believe that the flowing groups will be called by the school: • Fire departments & EMS • Voluntary groups such as the Red Cross. • Municipal Emergency Management Coordinator • County Emergency Management Agency • Transportation providers • Communication providers • Food suppliers Reference Leechburg Area School District. (2016). Emergency Operations Plan. Retrieved January 10, 2020, from https://www.leechburg.k12.pa.us/cms/lib/PA01916522/Centricity/Domain /6/LASD\%20EOP\%20Basic\%20Plan\%20FINAL.pdf ... Purchase answer to see full attachment