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What is Disability Inclusion?

A Disability Inclusion seeks to include people with disabilities in all spheres of life for societal development by recognizing their ability, potential, valuing and respecting their contributions and perspectives, honoring their dignity, and effectively responding to their needs for functional contributions. Unlike Disability Segregation, Disability Inclusion promotes an integrated, mainstreaming and inclusive society for the benefit of persons with disabilities and society as a whole.

Disability Inclusion means (a) being accepted and recognized as an individual beyond the disability; (b) having positive personal relationships with family, friends, and acquaintances; (c) being involved in the development process of a society; (d) having appropriate reasonable accommodations for all persons with different abilities.

Including people with disabilities in everyday activities and encouraging them to have roles similar to their peers who do not have disabilities is regarded as “Disability Inclusion”. This involves more than simply encouraging the PWDs; it requires making sure that adequate policies, functional legislations and practices are in effect in a community for Disability Inclusion.

Inclusion should lead to increased participation in socially expected life roles and activities such as being a class mate, employer, employee, colleague, business partner, friend, community member, leader, spouse, brother, sister, or parent by, with and for persons with disabilities.

Socially expected activities may also include engaging in social activities, using public resources such as transportation and libraries, moving about within communities, receiving adequate health care, inclusive quality education, being employed in public and private workplace, being elected or appointed in public office, having relationships, and enjoying other day-to-day activities without any barriers.

    

                          Mission

The website’s mission is to advocate and promote the inclusion of people with disabilities in all facets of community life by eliminating barriers, creating opportunities, empowering, and promoting innovative inclusion.

To accomplish the mission, this website should:

1- Educate and inform policymakers about issues and matters related to ‘Disability Inclusion’.

2- Advocate for policies, laws, practices and services that support people with disabilities to exercise their rights and roles as members of society in order to reach their full potentials, and become productive in the society and have meaningful lives.

3- Promote innovative approaches to supporting people with disabilities to live, learn, work and enjoy community life.

4- Advocate for the elimination of barriers that create separation and segregation and limit opportunities for full inclusion and community participation.

5- Raise public awareness about people with disabilities for attitudes change, and inclusion.

                             Vision

This website has a vision of normalizing ‘Disability Inclusion’ by a social justice, an accessible and inclusive community, in which the ‘Disability Rights’ as ‘Human Rights’ are recognised and respected.

                             Purpose

The purpose this website is advocacy for ‘Disability Inclusion’, awareness-raising, knowledge and information sharing on matters related to ‘Disability Inclusion’ in education, healthcare services, employment, assistive technology, social and political participation.

                          Core Values

This website believes that people with disabilities, irrespective of race, age, gender, cultural or linguistic background, religious beliefs, geographical location, or the nature, origin, and degree of disability should:

1- have a right to life and dignity respect;

2- are people with human and disability rights that must be recognised and respected;

3- are entitled to the full enjoyment of the citizenship roles and responsibilities;

4- are entitled to live free from prejudice, discrimination and vilification;

5- are entitled to social support and adjustments as a right and not as the result of pity, charity or the exercise of social control;

6- contribute substantially to the intellectual, cultural, economic and social diversity and well-being of their community;

7- possess many skills and abilities, and have enormous potentials for life-long growth and development;

8- are entitled to live in, and be a part of, the diversity of the community;

9- have the right to participate in the formulation of laws, policies and programs that affect our lives; and

10- must be empowered to a decent work which will lead to good standard of living and satisfying lives.

                      Principles

In realizing the mission, vision, purpose and core values, this website is guided by the following principles:

1- Respect for inherent dignity of persons with disabilities;

2- Non-discrimination of persons with disabilities;

3- Full and effective participation and inclusion in society;

4- Respect for difference and acceptance of persons with disabilities as part of human diversity and humanity;

5- Equality of opportunity in all spheres;

6- Accessibility and reasonable accommodation.