Presentation on Overcoming Barriers Faced by People with Disabilities

This presentation examines the multifaceted nature of disabilities, defining them as mental or physical conditions that limit a person's movements, activities, or senses, thereby restricting their daily lives. It categorizes disabilities into sensory, physical, neurological, psychiatric, intellectual, and cognitive types, highlighting the challenges associated with each. The presentation delves into the problems and barriers encountered by individuals with disabilities, encompassing physical, attitudinal, communication, and programmatic obstacles. It emphasizes how environmental inaccessibility, lack of assistive technology, negative societal attitudes, and inadequate policies contribute to these barriers. The presentation concludes by outlining potential solutions, such as raising awareness, promoting community development initiatives, and implementing enabling technologies and services to foster independence and inclusion. The information presented is supported by referenced sources that offer additional insights into the topic. This assignment is available on Desklib, a platform that provides students with access to study resources.

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.

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