LD201 Understand the Context of Supporting Individuals with Learning Disabilities Identify legislation and policies that are designed to promote the human rights‚ inclusion‚ equal life chances and citizenship of individuals with learning disabilities? The human rights act allows individuals with learning disabilities the right to equal chances when it comes to jobs this will promote inclusion and will also make the individual feel like they’re included and valued as a member of the community‚ the
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with Learning Disabilities 1.1 People with learning disabilities are more vulnerable than other people; they are affected by certain laws. There isn’t one law or Act which covers their situation‚ but they may be affected by laws concerning: * Education * Voting rights * Ownership of property * Guardianship * Control of finances * Consent to sex In the United Kingdom‚ specific legislation that affects people with learning disabilities include: * Disability Discrimination
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gave rise to disability rights. Disability rights groups argued that the problem lay with way society respond to people with disabilities. Disability group took actions against institutional discrimination‚ poor access‚ social environments and inequalities. In 1945‚ many disabled people were killed. Also many people were isolated and sterilised. The Disability Employment Act‚ (1944)‚ is to provide shelter‚ employment and jobs for disabled people. A Social and Medical models of disability established
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Many students with disabilities in the United States are receiving a sub-standard education because states are not complying with federal rules on special education as a result of discriminatory practices (BBC News Online). In many cases‚ children with disabilities are being taught in separate classroom‚ when they should not be segregated. In addition‚ schools are not always following regulations meant to protect students with disabilities from discrimination. Historically ethnic and linguistically
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exclusion of individuals with learning disabilities. The Equalities Act of 2010 combines 116 different legislations to provide a legal framework the purpose of which is to protect the rights of individuals. It simplifies past legislation providing the UK with a law that protects individuals from discrimination and make society equal. Merged legislations are: The Equal Pay Act 1970 The Sex discrimination Act 1975 The Race Relations Act 1976 The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 The Employment
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1. Disability Services Act 1991 The Act aims to ensure that people with disabilities receive services that enable them to achieve their maximum potential and participation in the community. It provides a legislative and funding framework for a range of disability services‚ most significantly employment services. It specifies that services are to complement those available generally to people in the community‚ and are to enable people with disabilities to achieve increased independence‚ employment
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Movie Critique Summary The movie Radio is based on the true life story of James Robert "Radio" Kennedy‚ an African-American male with a slight mental disability‚ played by Cuba Gooding Jr.. The setting of this movie is in the small rural town of Anderson‚ South Carolina in 1976.The movie begins with the main character‚ Radio‚ pushing a grocery cart filled with his personal belongings and a radio‚ which he was affectionately named after‚ along a train track. During Radio ’s frequent journeys
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prohibiting the discrimination against people with disabilities in employment‚ public services‚ public accommodations‚ and telecommunications. EEOC was given enforcement authority for title 1 of the act‚ the employment discrimination provisions. Title 1 of the act took 2 years before coming into effect to allow the Commission time to develop regulations and technical assistance‚ time to conduct comprehensive public education programs on the new disability law‚ also to allow time for employers to adjust
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Today‚ more than 60 million people in the United States‚ approximately one in five‚ have some type of disability (The Equal Rights Center. n.d.). The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) defines a person with a disability as a person who has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activity. In general‚ a physical or mental impairment includes hearing‚ mobility and visual impairments‚ chronic alcoholism‚ chronic mental illness‚ AIDS‚ AIDS Related Complex‚
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I. Societal Responses to Disability 1. How the perceived cause of disability affects societies response. 2. Personal examples of societal response to disability. II. Social Workers and People with Disabilities 1. Service systems designed to address issues specific to disability. 2. Personal thoughts on the service systems design to help the disabled. III. The Ecosystems Model and People with Disability 1. Individual 2. Family 3. Culture 4. Environmental-Structural 5. Historical
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