Promoting Equality and Diversity in Adults with Learning Difficulties and Disabilities

This report discusses the importance of promoting equality and diversity in adults with learning difficulties and disabilities. It explores the impact of prejudice and discrimination on these individuals and examines the applicability of current equality legislations within the healthcare sector. The report also defines key terms and explains how they contribute to promoting equality and diversity.

Equality and diversity.

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Define and explain key terms.................................................................................................3
Equality and diversity promoted in adults with learning difficulties/disabilities...................4
Impact of prejudice and discrimination..................................................................................5
Applicability of human rights within health care and implications of current equality
legislations..............................................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Equality and diversity is defined as promoting equality of opportunity for all through
diversity and giving each individual the chance to created more effectiveness for business.
Equality is about ensuring has an equal opportunity and is not treated differently. On the other
side, diversity is about taking account of differences between people and group of people. The
selected topic for present report is “Adults with learning difficulties and disability”. This reduce
intellectual ability and difficulties with adults. This creates negative impact on business and its
effectiveness. The report will define a key terms and how that promote equality and diversity in
selected areas. This explains the impact of prejudice and discriminations and applicability of
legislations.
MAIN BODY
Define and explain key terms.
A learning disability is reduced
intellectual ability and difficulty with every
day activities. A specific learning disorder is
diagnosed through a clinical review of
individuals developmental, medical,
educational (Brockett and Hiemstra, 2018).
The adults are not able to gives a proper
attention as compare with children. With
adults learning is more difficulties because
they have some characteristics which
includes area of difficulties which are as
follows:
 Difficulty with reading and writing.
 Poor memory.
 Difficulty following directions.
 Inability to discrimination between
among latter and numbers and
sounds.
 Not able to make proper coordination
with eye and hand.
 Difficulty for putting things in the
right sequence.
 Difficulty for adjusting to change.
Those are creates problems with adults at the
time of learnings thinks in appropriate
manner. The adults are disabled tend to take
longer to learn and may need support to
Illustration 1: Learning
(Source: The Current Situation of
Healthcare Products for Adults with
Learning Disabilities, 2017)

develop skills, understand complicated
information and interact with people. This
creates more difficulties for youngsters,
learning with adults.
Equality and diversity promoted in adults
with learning difficulties/disabilities.
Equality and diversity is important
think which helps to motivate people at
workplace and schools (Leberman and
McDonald, 2016). That is very important to
creates and promote at workplace and at the
time of learning because through that peoples
are learned various thinks and learning
ability of adults. This helps to learner and
teacher to teach appropriate in positive
manner by creating more significance.
For that here is select various thinks which
are help to promoted equality and diversity in
adults with learning difficulties and
disabilities. Those are as follows:
 This can be promoted by creating an
inclusive culture for the adults
learners: through that adults are
learned fast because they have
effective and best historical
knowledge which reflects more
effective as well as they have hard
culture knowledge. With the helps of
these adults are learns various thinks
in effective manner (Merriam, 2018).
 Making proper certain that any
learning materials do not
discriminate against any individuals:
this helps to adults for learn properly
with matching criteria of learns. This
creates more effectiveness for peoples
to learn more growth factors in
appropriate manner. This helps to
promote equality and diversity at
workplace or schools with adults.
 Provide equal opportunity to enable
adults learners to fully participant in
learning process: this opportunity is
creates positive learnings for people
in effective manner. With the helps of
adults gets proper thinking and
participation chance about giving and
performing practical works. This
helps to make proper and effective

works force for company work in
respective manner.
 Enabling adult's learner to develop
their full potential: this is effective
action which have effective and
strong need to develop more growth
factors (Russell, 2019). This creates
more significance for learners. In that
coaches required to provide proper
knowledge to learners for develop
their fullest potentials.
 Meeting needs of learners: this helps
to create more effectiveness learners
in appropriate manner. This creates
more suitability for adults to done
their learnings in proper manner. This
creates more effectiveness for learner
to in effectiveness. For the learners
and tutor only comes into the centre
for a couple of hours a week, there
may be a little incentive to take a part
in evaluation.
Those are the ways which are helps to creates
effectiveness for adults to learn better to well
as promoted equality and diversity in adults
with learning difficulties and disabilities.
This creates more effectiveness for the
learners to learn various thinks to produce
learning in positive manner.
Impact of prejudice and discrimination.
All the people deal with prejudice
which defines a negative attitude towards
others based on a prejudgement about those
individuals based on the little prior
knowledge and experience. The
prejudgement is gives negative impact on
people and creates negative environment.
This creates a negative though in adults
minds. The people with disabilities are
diverse group like visually, hearing and
person with higher age group is created
negative impact on adults. Those impacts.
This creates a negative impact on the adults
because of any discrimination with adults are
demotivate to them towards learnings. They
are not learned various thinks with the
presences of any discrimination at the
workplace. Adults are already weaker to
learn thinks because they weaker eye site,
listening ability is also weaker. In that case
any discrimination is creates demotivation in
adults for learning in better manner
(Sogunro, 2015).

If any discrimination is done with adults then
they are punished as per rules and regulations
because this is illegal process and which is
not done with any people and adults at
workplace and learning time. This affected
by disempowerments of individuals.
On the other side, the prejudgement is
think before like they have not any
capabilities to done think and learn in proper
manner. This creates more negative impact
on adult's morale because some people are
thinks that they have not any ability to learn
thinks. The continue to impact disabled
persons economically, by limiting their
ability to join the workforce and make a
living (Field and Network, 2016). This may
be at workplace and schools. The
prejudgement is also affected to employment
with adults. Like management at workplace
think they have any ability to do works as
well as what they do in works because they
have to proper vision and ability to learner
thinks in appropriate manner. The adults with
learning is creates more difficulties and
disabilities to learn thinks and understand
works process and style at work place and
learning places. Those are the impacts of
prejudgement and discrimination with adults
learning.
Applicability of human rights within health
care and implications of current
equality legislations.
The human rights to health means
that everyone has the right to the highest
attainable standard of physical and mental
healths. There are various rights which
important within the health care sectors.
These are creates more effectiveness for
work and its growth factors by creating
various plans. The human have rights to life
saving medical treatment. That is called into
the questions the rights to life and the right of
the individual to choose to die. All people
have rights to work properly and gain proper
services with the health care sectors.
On the other side, there have different
types of current equality legislations which
are explored as follows:

 Age discrimination act: the people at
the workplace and learning time are
already protected against age
discrimination. The age
discrimination in provision of
services and public functions for
adults included in the equalities act
and was implemented in health care
sector in effective manner for proper
growth.
 Carers equal opportunity act: this act
is protect adults from any disabilities
which is happening to them at
workplace and learning time. This
law protects carers from
discrimination through the association
with the person they care for. If
person lacks the capacity to make a
decision or to consent to care and
treatment in the health care sectors,
then provider of health or social care
services must act in the best interests
of that person.
 Human right act: this act is enforce
the fundamental rights and freedoms
contained in the convention on human
rights. This provides dignity in care
includes a various rights and
responsibilities. The fundamental
rights are includes rights which
impact directly on services provision
in the health and social care sectors.
This helps to provide equal rights to
adults and another for learning better
and in effective manner. This creates
more effectiveness for business and
its effective growth.
Those are the important and effective law
which are possible implicated for health care
of current equality legislations. This is an
effective and valuable for providing equal
opportunity to adults with learning
disabilities and difficulties.

CONCLUSION
From the above, study it had been concluded that the equality and diversity has important
and effective part of everyone life which reflects proper motivation in persons life. This has also
important and effective for adults with learning disabilities and difficulties. The report has
covered by different ways to promote equality and diversity within health care and learning with
adults disability and difficulties. Adults with learning impacted by prejudgement and
discrimination at workplace and learning time. At the end of report, it represents applicability of
human rights within the health care and currents equality legislations.

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