HSHM368 Living with Disability in Contemporary Society Assessment 2: Essay Weight: 50% of the unit assessment Word length: 3000 words (+/-10%) Notes: Written assignment Due Date: Is displayed at the...

Running Head: LIVING WITH DISABILITY IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY     1
LIVING WITH DISABILITY IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY     17
LIVING WITH DISABILITY IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY
Table of Contents
Introduction    3
Barriers that prevent social inclusion for the people with disabilities    3
Measures to address the barriers mentioned    7
Conclusion    12
References    14
Introduction
Individuals suffering from issues like dyslexia, impaired vision hearing issues, learning disability and others seen to be excluded from the society. Such individuals are not included in the activities of the society and are ignored from the society. They are believed to be a burden on the society. Children suffering from issues such as unable to speak at early age and others are not admitted to schools and others. This affects the morale and confidence of such individuals. This essay focuses on the barriers that lead to exclusion of individuals suffering from disabilities from the society. This essay also focuses on identifying the measures that can be taken to include such affected individuals in the societal activities. The discussion of measures will ensure that all the aspects of the society is considered to ensure that the individual with any type of disability can be included in the society.
Barriers that prevent social inclusion for the people with disabilities
Individuals face difficulties in normal life due to injuries and other issues. However, in case of people suffering from any kind of disability, the society creates various barriers to exclude such individuals from the society. According to the opinion of Blick, Saad, Goreczny, Roman and Sorensen (2015), the creation of such barriers may be deliberate or non-deliberate but it plays an integral life in the life of individual suffering from disability. The barriers that prevent social inclusion for the people with disabilities can be separated into various categories like attitudinal, physical, social, transportation and others. Description of such barriers is as follows:
Attitudinal barriers:
These are the most basic forms of barriers and gives rise to other type of barriers. The attitude of the individual in the society leads to exclusion of individuals with disability from the society. Individuals believe that the affected individuals are a burden and hence pay no heed to communicating with them and others. As per the perspective of Caton and Chapman (2016), people sometimes stereotype those with difficulties, with the basic assumption that they are unhealthy and poor due to their impairments. Due to this, they try to maintain space with that individuals that ultimately lead to the exclusion of affected individuals from the society. In addition to that, the attitude of the affected individuals seems to be demotivated. According to Curtin et al. (2016), due to the actions of the society, the affected individuals consider themselves inferior to others and hence do not interact much with others. They assume that they are a burden on the society and hence consider themselves inferior. This acts at a barrier in their inclusion in the society.
Communication barriers:
Individuals who suffer from disabilities that affects speaking, hearing, writing, reading or understanding generally experience this. According to the views of Davidson, Grigorenko, Boivin, Rapa and Stein (2015), people attempt to make them understand about something and they understand something else. However, individuals with disabilities are unable to read, write, or understand. After few attempts, people stop attempting to make the affected people understand. People show lack of interest in communicating with affected individuals, as it requires an extra effort to make them understand something. Use of technical language, difficult words and long sentences acts a barrier for understanding people with cognitive impairments. People such to avoid such individuals that ultimately excludes them from the society. As per the opinion of Drake, Bond, Goldman, Hogan and Karakus (2016), apart from few people, individuals tend to feel isolated that affects the morale and confidence of the individual with disability.
Physical barriers:
It includes barriers that block the mobility of an individual suffering from disability. It includes stairs, curbs or other structures that pose difficulty for the individual with disability. Such barriers restrict affected individuals from accessing areas that a normal person can visit and enjoy. According to the views of Dwertmann and Boehm (2016), the society does not help such individuals, as every individual remains busy in their lives. Individuals with physical disability require physical as well as moral support from society. Lack of such supports leads to their exclusion from the society that negatively affects the confidence of the affected individual.
Policy barriers:
This refers to the policies that restricts the entry of the individuals suffering from disability. It may be due to a number of reasons like lack of infrastructure for disabled individuals, lack of knowledge of others. As per the views of Funk (2016), due to policy barriers, the affected individuals feel neglected from the society, the public is able to access few places but the individuals with disability are unable to visit or access such places. This leads to an exclusion of such individuals from the society that negatively affects the morale of the individuals with disability. They think themselves to be inferior in comparison to normal individual that leads to an instable state of mind for the disabled individuals.
Architectural barriers:
It refers to the barriers that restrict the movement of individual suffering from disability. According to the perspective of Garcia et al. (2015), in various places, proper arrangement are made free movement of wheelchairs through slopes and others. However, in certain places there is no such arrangement. Therefore, the individuals with disabilities face difficulty in accessing such places that leads to exclusion. The external design and the internal infrastructure affect the movement of disabled individuals. For example, in certain areas the intensity of light is very high. In such scenario, individual having partly impaired vision face difficulty. They feel irritated through such lights that ignites them to leave the place.
Due to this, they are unable to interact with the individuals effectively. This will also have an impact in their future, as they will be hesitant to visit such places. Therefore, appropriate arrangement should be made to ensure that the individuals with disability could be included in all the public events. According to the views of Goodley (2016), special arrangement like the one special glasses, wheelchair, hearing devices and others can be ensured to ensure that he affected individuals are able to include themselves in the society.
Structural barriers:
It refers to the barriers on the part of organisations, governments, bureaucracy and others. As opined by Hammel et al. (2015), it has been observed that the sections of the society consisting of individuals with disability tend to get ignored. As they constitute a very small section of the society, the government and other organisation does not pay much heed to them. Organisations do not employ individuals with disability as they have lower efficiency. As per the opinion of Harrison, Falvo, Weiss and Holland (2017), in spite of certain rules by the regulatory bodies to provide employment to individuals with...