Social Exclusion of Blind People in UK Society

Project

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
Using UK contemporary issues regarding disability in media, focus on the one named
disability and clearly explain how people with disability are socially excluded in society........3
Issues of funding with provision related to disabilities ..............................................................4
How effective legislation are promoting the social inclusion for people with disabilities.........5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Person with disability means when an individual with long term physical, intellectual,
mental or sensory impairment that hinders their full and effective participation in community.
Usually, in society, people with disability faces various challenges which influences their morale
and peace (Medina-Rico, López-Ramos and Quiñonez, 2018). In UK, there are 7 million people
of working age population are disabled which defined by Equality Act 2010. The project is based
on disabilities in person and their living rights. In this report, the issues regarding the disability in
media and how people with disability are excluded in society is explained. Furthermore, it also
include the issues relating to the provision of funding for people with disabilities and also the
laws and legislation are defined in promoting social inclusion for people with disabilities.
TASK 1
Using UK contemporary issues regarding disability in media, focus on the one named disability
and clearly explain how people with disability are socially excluded in society.
Disability is a term which represent the condition of body that makes difficult for people
to do certain activities in smooth manner (Iriarte, McConkey and Gilligan, 2015). There are
different types of disability such as vision impairment, hard of hearing, intellectual disability,
physical disability, acquired brain injury, autism spectrum disorder and many others. In world,
there are 1 billion persons with disability due to which they are represented among the world's
poor and tend to be poorer. The main role of media is to influence the public opinion and
establish societal norms by offering images and stories (Eisenberg, Andreski and Mona, 2015).
Person with disabilities are covered in media with seldom and when they are featured, they are
represented negatively and not appropriately. The media plays an important role in raising
awareness, misinformation and countering stigma. Persons with disability are treated as objects
of charity, medical treatment and pity that have to overcome a disabling and tragic condition in
order to inspire the non-disabled. Blindness is one of the disability that is socially excluded in
society (Ellis, K. and Kent, 2016). Media also plays a vital role in creating awareness among
people and also influence the way people with disabilities are treated in society. They generally
depicts the people with disabilities according to the common stereotypes such as heroism and
pity. The blind people generally feel excluded form the society due to which their morale and
motivation level to survive gets reduced. There are various factors that are socially excluded ins