What Would You Do to Make a Better World?
Research Paper-What would you do to make a better world?
Eliminate Discrimination against People with Disabilities
Laura Rodriguez Romero
To make a better world I would try to change how people with physical and intellectual disabilities are treated and perceived. I work toward a world in which they are celebrated instead of marginalized. My hope is that people with disabilities will be welcomed to share the unique gifts they have to offer. My dream is that people with disabilities become a vital part of the conversation on what it means to live fully.
Discrimination, although generally means the action of separate or distinguish things from one another, also, from the socio-psychological perspective suggests inadequate and different treatment given to a person or group of people for different reasons among them is the physical disability. “Discrimination against people with disabilities in favor of people who are not is called ableism or disablism. Disability discrimination, which treats non-disabled individuals as the standard of ‘normal living’, results in public and private places and services, education, and social work that are built to serve 'standard ' people, thereby excluding those with various disabilities”1.
There are several laws that address ableism, such as: “The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), enacted on July 26, 1990, is the United States’ most far-reaching attempt to combat discrimination on the basis of disabilities”2. The purpose of the Act is to define who is covered by it, what illegal discrimination is, and which the legal resources are. This law aims to protect those who have a physical or mental disability that limits the development of one or more of its core activities, such as seeing, working, walking, listening or even breathe.
Although different countries legislation provides for non-discrimination and is declared as a rare phenomenon in our society, however, discrimination is not eliminated by decree, neither by
Eliminate Discrimination against People with Disabilities
Laura Rodriguez Romero
To make a better world I would try to change how people with physical and intellectual disabilities are treated and perceived. I work toward a world in which they are celebrated instead of marginalized. My hope is that people with disabilities will be welcomed to share the unique gifts they have to offer. My dream is that people with disabilities become a vital part of the conversation on what it means to live fully.
Discrimination, although generally means the action of separate or distinguish things from one another, also, from the socio-psychological perspective suggests inadequate and different treatment given to a person or group of people for different reasons among them is the physical disability. “Discrimination against people with disabilities in favor of people who are not is called ableism or disablism. Disability discrimination, which treats non-disabled individuals as the standard of ‘normal living’, results in public and private places and services, education, and social work that are built to serve 'standard ' people, thereby excluding those with various disabilities”1.
There are several laws that address ableism, such as: “The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), enacted on July 26, 1990, is the United States’ most far-reaching attempt to combat discrimination on the basis of disabilities”2. The purpose of the Act is to define who is covered by it, what illegal discrimination is, and which the legal resources are. This law aims to protect those who have a physical or mental disability that limits the development of one or more of its core activities, such as seeing, working, walking, listening or even breathe.
Although different countries legislation provides for non-discrimination and is declared as a rare phenomenon in our society, however, discrimination is not eliminated by decree, neither by
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