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  Disability Awareness

Core Information

Common Ways People with a  Disability are viewed and treated:

• victims, or objects of pity

• horrible or grotesque

• burdens, either on society or on their families and carers

• evil, or some threat to the comfort and safety of others

• unable, or assumed to be unable, to do things

• having multiple disabilities (such as assuming that a person who uses a wheelchair also has an intellectual disability)

• childlike

• "special"

Such misconceptions are based on insufficient or inaccurate information about people with disabilities and can perpetuate inappropriate interactions.

... such misconceptions are based on insufficient or
inaccurate information about people with disabilities and can perpetuate inappropriate interactions.