Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century

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It is not possible to provide an exhaustive list of conditions that qualify as impairments for the purposes of the Act. A person may still satisfy the long-term element of the definition even if the effect is not the same throughout the period. A person may have more than one impairment, any one of which alone would not have a substantial effect. Protection from discrimination for disabled people applies to disabled people in a range of circumstances, covering the provision of goods, facilities and services, the exercise of public functions, premises, work, education, and associations. The definition of disability set out in the Act and described in this guidance is the only definition relevant to determining whether someone is a disabled person for the purposes of the Act.

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Likelihood of recurrence should be considered taking all the circumstances of the case into account. Disability Visibility (Adapted for Young Adults): 17 First-Person Stories for Today Book jacket designed by Angela Carlino of DISABILITY VISIBILITY: 17 First-Person Stories for Today adapted for young readers edited by Alice Wong. The requirement that an adverse effect on normal day-to- day activities should be a substantial one reflects the general understanding of disability as a limitation going beyond the normal differences in ability which may exist among people.

In it, he recounts his life’s story and argues that the intellectually disabled are fully capable of participating in society. The cumulative effect of related impairments should be taken into account when determining whether the person has experienced a long-term effect for the purposes of meeting the definition of a disabled person. If you want to take action about disability discrimination, you can check what you can do about discrimination.

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Some impairments with recurring or fluctuating effects may be less obvious in their impact on the individual concerned than is the case with other impairments where the effects are more constant. DVP was launched a way for the disabled community to take back control of their narrative and dismantle the idea that living with a disability is either pitiful or inspirational.This is because, as at this stage, the effects of her impairment have not yet lasted more than 12 months after the first occurrence, and there is no evidence that these episodes are part of an underlying condition of depression which is likely to recur beyond the 12-month period.

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This description helps to assess the health, functioning, activities, and factors in the environment that either help or create barriers for people to fully participate in society. If your impairment would make things harder for you without any medicine, treatment or assistive technology, you might be disabled under the Equality Act. The Equality Act 2010 prohibits discrimination against people with the protected characteristics that are specified in section 4 of the Act. The Act states that this provision does not apply to sight impairments to the extent that they are capable of correction by spectacles or contact lenses. The Act says that, except for the provisions in Part 12 (Transport [footnote 4]) and section 190 (improvements to let dwelling houses), the provisions of the Act also apply in relation to a person who previously has had a disability as defined in paragraphs A1 and A2 (S6(4) and Sch1, Para 9).Because Wong believed that the disabled community was missing a documented history, she worked with StoryCorps to create the DVP and raise awareness of everyday people living with physical, mental, and/or learning disabilities. These storiesvalidated many complicated experiences I had while growing up and felt fully relatable. It may not always be possible, nor is it necessary, to categorise a condition as either a physical or a mental impairment.

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Recognized for her service to the community and activism at the local and national level, Alice received the Beacon Award by the San Francisco Mayor’s Disability Council in 2010 and the Disability Service Award by the University of California, San Francisco in 2011. People who know you well, like your friends and family, might also be able to help think of ways your impairment affects you.The fact that an impairment may have a less substantial effect in certain environments does not necessarily prevent it having an overall substantial adverse effect on day-to-day activities. Neither impairment on its own has a substantial adverse effect, but the effects of the impairments taken together have a substantial adverse effect on his ability to converse.