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Disability
The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 protects the rights of disabled people. As many as one-in-four people in the UK is disabled in some way. Different types of disabilities exist and they are commonly associated with a visual or hearing impairment, lack of mobility, and mental or emotional impairment.
The poverty, disadvantage and social exclusion experienced by many disabled people doesn't come from their impairments or medical conditions. Their disadvantages come from other people's attitudes, environmental barriers that stop them from getting to places and organisational rules and arrangements that impede them.
If a person has a disability they will have more difficulties to overcome to perform actions or activities that able-bodied people take for granted. For example, this could be simply communicating with others, moving around or just making every day decisions.
REMEMBER – we all have a responsibility to make our communities a better and safer place for disabled people.
British Paralympic Association
Royal National Institute of the Blind
