The Disability Discrimination Act

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For many centuries, discrimination was more a matter of targeting peopled with disabilities. Discrimination disability involve an action or human behavior that offend individual’s dignity and unfairly penalize them due to disability and their association or perceived connection to a group. Discrimination towards disabled people have existed in society for decades and these negative attitudes cause many barriers and disadvantages.The Disability Discrimination Act known as an act that protect people with a disability and their connection such as relatives, friends and carers of disabilities. On July 26, 1990, President George H.W. Bush signed into law the Americans with Disabilities Act, which prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities …show more content…

The general public still perceives persons with disability as different from the norm. Meanwhile, society often does not fully understand disabilities. This results in harmful stereotypes and stigmatization. In facts, disabled people are still blocked from participating and contributing to society. These factors are leading to discrimination, thus leaving a negative effect on the persons concerned. In Asian, Middle-Eastern and African, their societies hold a deficit view of disability due to their cultural beliefs and attitudes. This also exists in Western countries, but to a lesser degree. They beliefs that an individual is disabled due to a curse or a misdeed they committed in their past life, or committed by a member of their family. The disability is punishment for that wrongdoing. Not only that, certain culture still belief if a child have a disability, he or she is a loss of face to the …show more content…

Research by the Association for Higher Education Access Disability shows that school-leavers with disabilities are four times less likely to progress to higher education. This shows that there are barriers and difficulties within the education system. First and foremost, the lack of available options provided in mainstream education is a major obstacle for students with disability. This is because, there are not enough services available to students with disability to match their requirements. Another major challenge is the attitude of peers. Children could have stereotypical ideas and misconceptions about disability. This can effect in feelings of insecurity having a sense of inadequacy which may lead persons with disability to experience isolation, lack of motivation to learn, and in some cases absenteeism from school.Besides, It is difficult for adults with disability to return to higher education because of limited pathways to courses. More importantly, higher education has no system of supports for people with disability who wish to go to education part-time, often because of the effect of their condition.Besides, one of the main effects underlying disability discrimination is harmful psychological effects. People who experience discrimination can suffer from significant negative consequence and this can be severely

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