Assignment On Overcoming Barriers In Disabilities

Overcoming
barriers in
Disabilities

WHAT ARE DISABILITIES?
A disability is a mental or physical situation where
a person is limited to his or her movements,
activities or senses.
A disability is a situation that restricts a person
from his or her every day activities. It can be
intellectual, cognitive, psychiatric, neurological or
any physical or sensory impairments1.

WHAT ARE THE TYPES OF
DISABILITIES?
 It is an umbrella term for a lot of impairments,
limitations to activities or restrictions in
participation.
 There are various disabilities that may be
permanent and temporary. It can be chronic and
episodic as well.
 The most common types of disabilities are
sensory, physical, neurological, psychiatric,
intellectual and cognitive2.

 A physical disability may relate to
muscoskeletal, respiratory, circulatory as well
as nervous system disorder.
 Sensory disabilities involve vision and hearing
impairments.

 Neurological disabilities include acquired
disabilities like brain or traumatic injury of
multiple sclerosis. It also includes intellectual
disabilities like those pertaining to difficulties in
communication, learning, processing or
remembering3.
 Psychological disorders include phobias,
anxiety or even depression.

WHAT ARE THE PROBLEMS OR
BARRIERS IN DISABILITIES?
The situation of disability is a relative scenario that
is created through the absence or presence of a
person due to his or her restrained functioning or
limitations with respect to other4. This includes:
 An environment that is not physically accessible,
 An absence of appropriate assistive technology,
 A negative attitude, depicted by the people
towards disability,

 Policies, systems and services that nonexistent
and hinder the involvement of those people
who have a certain health condition.
However, over the time other barriers also
surface that comprises of the following factors:
 Physical or structural barriers in movements in
the manmade or natural environment.
 Policies that lack awareness and enforcement
with respect to the existing laws that enforces
these policies and programs to be accessible to
the people with disabilities5.

 Communication barriers that affects people
with hearing, speech or reading and writing.
 Attitudinal barriers like stereotyping and
stigma and prejudices are the most basic types
of barriers faced by these differently abled
people.
 Programmatic barriers like inconvenient
scheduling, provider’s attitude or knowledge,
insufficient timings, lack of communication
with other participants or patients6.

WHAT ARE THE WAYS TO
OVERCOME THESE BARRIERS IN
DISABILITIES? Proper initiatives by the government and the
other social organizations to create awareness
among the people in the society.
 Organizing workshops to practice community
developments with people who are differently
abled as well as the normal citizens.
 Enabling technologies, services and programs
that can help people with disabilities to become
independent7.

References:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "Disability and Health
Disability Barriers | CDC". Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
2019. Online. Internet. 8 Sep. 2019. . Available:
https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/disabilityandhealth/disability-barriers.html.
Disability.wa.gov.au. "What is disability?". Disability.wa.gov.au, 2019.
Online. Internet. 8 Sep. 2019. . Available:
http://www.disability.wa.gov.au/understanding-disability1/understanding-
disability/what-is-disability/.
Smith-Khan, Laura, et al. "To ‘promote, protect and ensure’: overcoming
obstacles to identifying disability in forced migration." Journal of Refugee
Studies 28.1 (2014): 38-68.
World Health Organization. WHO global disability action plan 2014-2021:
Better health for all people with disability. World Health Organization,
2015.

Thank You!