What is a disability?

The condition of being disabled.Limitation in ability due to physical or

mental impairment.

55 million Americans with disabilities

Wide variety: physical, chronic health, impairments, mental retardation, mental illness, and visual, hearing or speech

Vary in level: mild to severe.Severest forms are; blindness, deafness, and

paralysis

Prejudice and Discrimination

• High rates of unemployment• Unproductive workers ( Stereotype )• Government assistance• Education• Poverty• Housing• Public services and accommodations

American with Disabilities Act

• ADA passed in 1990 addresses four main areas.

• Employment• Public services• Public accommodations• Telecommunications• ( The ADA makes it illegal to discriminate

against people with disabilities )

What could be done to accommodate people with disabilities in society?

• Choose one area and discuss it within a group?• Remember the ADA makes it illegal to

discriminate against people with disabilities.• It also requires that accommodations be made

for people disabilities in public services.• Come up with observations, points and

questions to share with the class about how what is in place or needs to be done to help people living with disabilities.