Disability and Community Life: Employment, Education Barriers Report

This report delves into the significant challenges faced by individuals with disabilities in Australia, focusing on two key areas: employment and education. The report highlights the employment barriers, including workplace discrimination, lack of knowledge regarding workplace rights, inflexible work arrangements, and issues with superannuation and workplace environments. It emphasizes the need for improved awareness of employee rights and the elimination of discriminatory practices. Regarding education, the report examines the barriers within the Australian community. These include remoteness, socio-economic disparities, and the underperformance of indigenous students. The report stresses the importance of providing adequate government support and addressing the educational disparities. The report references key sources to support the arguments and provides valuable insights into the complexities of disability and community life in Australia.

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Topic 1: Disability
Employment Disability
The employment barriers in Australia are quite significant factors for the service
professionals. The most significant employment barriers are:
 Discriminative behaviour at the workplace.
 Lack of knowledge regarding the workplace rights.
 Lack of proper flexibility.
 Mismanagement of the superannuation process (Morris et al., 2014).
 Issues with the workplace conditions and environments.
The issues with these areas are the major considerable factors in managing the employment
factors in Australia. However, it can be inferred that the employees require gathering the
adequate knowledge regarding the workplace rights and policies. The elimination of the
discriminative attitudes would be much helpful in mitigating the issues with the employment
barriers.
Topic 2: Community Life
Education life in Community
It is notable Australia is one of the most developed and wealthiest countries in world.
People received the adequate supports for their education from the community. In spite of such
benefits received for the educational life, some of the significant barriers or disadvantages in
Australian community still exist. The most recognizable barriers to the education life in Australia
are:

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 The level of the remoteness is the significant barrier since the students in the remote areas
are consistently outperformed due to proper guidance.
 The diverse socio-economic class is also a considerable reason for the barriers to the
education process (Mtebe & Raisamo, 2014).
 It is noticed that the indigenous group of students consistently scoring lower grades that
is quite important factor to be taken into account.
Gathering the proper knowledge about the educational rights and providing the proper
government supports can be beneficial in mitigating the issues with the educational factor.

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References
Morris, A., Waghorn, G., Robson, E., Moore, L., & Edwards, E. (2014). Implementation of
evidence-based supported employment in regional Australia. Psychiatric rehabilitation
journal, 37(2), 144.
Mtebe, J. S., & Raisamo, R. (2014). Investigating perceived barriers to the use of open
educational resources in higher education in Tanzania. The International Review of Research in
Open and Distributed Learning, 15(2).