Additional Needs

What is an additional need?
According to Pete Youth an additional need means “any child or person with a physical, sensory, communication, behavioural or learning disability, or a long-term or life-limiting condition. This may also include children with emotional health and wellbeing needs where there is an impact on their daily life, including those with more significant mental health problems.” In my opinion additional needs means someone who needs extra help in order for them to lead normal lives. It can be someone with a physical or mental disability.
There are many different types of additional needs your may have a physical need for example if you are in a wheelchair or a sensory need for example if you are blind, a behavioural need for example is Dyslexia and people can have emotional needs such as
People with additional needs may feel like they are unable to move freely using public transport, they may find the design of the transport disables them for example the gap between the train and the platform step may be too wide or high causing people with additional needs unable to use public transport because they are scared of the risk that may occur. Also if a person in a wheelchair tries to use the train they will need to rely on a ramp and an assistant to put it into place these problems may occur when using a bus. People with sight impairments may find it hard to cross the roads or know which bus to get on also the objects on the pavement such as bins, flowers or benches create an obstacle course for sight impaired people to cross. Economic barriers are things such as if the disabled individual cant afford to take a taxi everywhere or has someone available to drive them whenever they wish then the persons mobility restrictions are reduced. If a disabled person has a high income and needed to buy specialist equipment to help with their mobility such as an electrical scooter then they would be able to whereas if someone