1. Disability Services Act 1991 The Act aims to ensure that people with disabilities receive services that enable them to achieve their maximum potential and participation in the community. It provides a legislative and funding framework for a range of disability services‚ most significantly employment services. It specifies that services are to complement those available generally to people in the community‚ and are to enable people with disabilities to achieve increased independence‚ employment
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Disabilites Disability has several definitions. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) defines a disability as: a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a major life activity; a record of a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a major life activity; or when an entity takes an action prohibited by the ADA based on an actual or perceived impairtment. I chose the movie Edward Scissorhands as my example for disabilities‚ and how it makes life so different from
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KENYA ON THE RIGHTS OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES INTERNATIONAL LAWS Under The Constitution of Kenya‚ article 2(5) and (6)‚ treaties and rules of international law are part of Kenyan Law. This essentially means that even without domesticating some of the treaties their obligations apply directly to Kenya. The Convention on the Rights of the Child is the first treaty that protected children rights. It guiding principles have a direct impact to children with disabilities. These include; non-discrimination
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discussing what mainstreaming is and briefly telling you about the history of mainstreaming. I will also be talking about the advantages and disadvantages of mainstreaming for children with disabilities and non disabled children. Mainstreaming or inclusion in general is the practice of educating children with disabilities in a regular classroom alongside non disabled students. Making them part of the students everyday life in the classroom. (Allen‚ 2005) Children that are mainstreamed are not kept isolated
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universally accessible space is hard work and takes time but its benefits outway the costs. There are many disabilities in the world‚ some visible and some invisible to the human eye. According to Merriam-Webster the official definition of the word disability is “a physical‚ mental‚ cognitive‚ or developmental condition that impairs‚ interferes
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• Social Model of Disability Morris explains that the social meaning of “disability” doesn’t refer to just physiological impairment but rather disabling barriers of prejudice‚ discrimination‚ and social exclusion. The cornerstone of social model of disability should be‚ Morris states‚ separating out impairment from disability. Disability includes unequal access to education and housing‚ higher living costs‚ and negative attitudes‚ and Morris affirms that recognition of differences is basement of
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Models of Disability There are various different models of disability but the ones I am going to be focusing on are medical and social. The difference between these two models of disability is that the medical one is where the individual is disabled for example they may have to use a wheel chair. The social model is the view of people in the society on people’s disabilities and how they approach this. For example in our setting we do not have wheelchair access for upstairs for people who may need
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discussion on the treatment and delivery and the differences between the social and medical model will address how the individual is treated in relation to health care. Key issues surrounding a work place or educational environment and generally the discrimination they face from different aspects within society will be discussed from a critical perspective. The introduction of relevant government legislation‚ in particular the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 and the new Act in 2005 will show what measures
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Explain the possible impact of the disability discrimination act in promoting anti-discriminatory practice. The Disability Discrimination Act was formed in 1976 then updated for the first time in 1995 and during 1998 the act was updated for the last time. The disabilities discrimination act was made for individuals who suffer from a disability this right was made so even they can have the same rights as everyone else. They don’t want any individual with a disability to feel as if though they are not
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The social and medical model of disability There are a number of ‘models’ of disability which have been defined over the last few years. The two most frequently mentioned are the ‘social’ and the ‘medical’ models of disability. The medical model of disability views disability as a ‘problem’ that belongs to the disabled individual. It is not seen as an issue to concern anyone other than the individual affected. For example‚ if a wheelchair using student is unable to get into a building because
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