DISABILITY AWARENESS
What is Disability Awareness?
The biggest barriers people with disabilities encounter are other people.
Disability Awareness means educating people regarding disabilities and giving people the knowledge required to carry out a job or task thus separating good practice from poor. It is no longer enough just to know that disability discrimination is unlawful. For instance disability awareness relates to topics such as a recent paper released by the Council for Disability Awareness that examines the lack of awareness of the risks and the financial burden that an unexpected accident or illness can have on retirement savings. Despite the fact that three in 10 workers entering the workforce today will become disabled before retiring, disability is often overlooked as a threat to long-term financial security.
Hidden Disability Awareness:
People with hidden disabilities often do not feel like they belong within the disability community because they are not considered to be “disabled enough” to fit into the group. People with hidden disabilities are caught between not being fully accepted as people without disabilities, and not being recognized as having “real” disabilities.
The biggest barriers people with disabilities encounter are other people.
Disability Awareness means educating people regarding disabilities and giving people the knowledge required to carry out a job or task thus separating good practice from poor. It is no longer enough just to know that disability discrimination is unlawful. For instance disability awareness relates to topics such as a recent paper released by the Council for Disability Awareness that examines the lack of awareness of the risks and the financial burden that an unexpected accident or illness can have on retirement savings. Despite the fact that three in 10 workers entering the workforce today will become disabled before retiring, disability is often overlooked as a threat to long-term financial security.
Hidden Disability Awareness:
People with hidden disabilities often do not feel like they belong within the disability community because they are not considered to be “disabled enough” to fit into the group. People with hidden disabilities are caught between not being fully accepted as people without disabilities, and not being recognized as having “real” disabilities.
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