Disability

Disability
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Disability is a physical, mental, sensory, emotional, developmental or a combination of all these that has been disoriented in the structure of a human being. The policies made by respective countries concerning persons with disabilities and the role of the government in its application in the society will briefly be discussed.
Governmental policies have adopted the broad definition of disability as used in the Disability Discrimination Act(1992) which in the context of employment can be summarized as a condition caused by trauma, genetics,accident or disease that hinders a person`s performance compared with a person that is not disabled. Government policies identifies with disabled persons as a valuable human resource for the country. The policy tries to create an environment that gives them an equal opportunity to employment, education and social amenity facilities. The policy focuses on prevention of disabilities and rehabilitation measures. The current features of the policy are physical rehabilitation, educational rehabilitation and economic rehabilitation.
Physical rehabilitation primarily includes early detection , intervention and medical interventions of provision of aids and appliances. This also pertains the educational development of professionals in the rehabilitation sector. Educational rehabilitation constitutes of vocational training while economic rehabilitation is basically for an excellent life in the community. Economic rehabilitation tries to offer employment to person`s with disability through recruitment initiatives and forums funded by the government. The government`s policy specifically focuses on issues concerning women and children with disabilities. Current policies in the government aim to make differences on strategic issues and overcome systemic barriers, focus on inviting,recruiting and retaining s...