A disability and the rights of disabled people
A disability is described as an injury to an individual's emotional, developmental, intellectual, cognitive, sensory, or a combination of the aforementioned aspects. While disability can affect a person in unique ways, restricting his ability to perform specific tasks with ease and precision, disabled people deserve the same fairness, treatment, and enjoyment of rights as anyone else (Connolly, 2005).
Implementing a rights-supportive approach
According to Connolly and Ward, it is important to ensure the implementation of a rights-supportive approach to disability practice, as shown by the fact that people with developmental disabilities are more matched than their non-disabled peers. As a result, there is a need to ensure the people are treated fairly without preference with regards to the existence of either physical or mental disability (Connolly, 2005).
Social approaches to ensuring rights for disabled individuals
In the quest to ensure the disabled enjoy different rights as their non-disabled individuals, the social approaches play a significant role in understanding the aspects that are vital in eliminating the barriers and likely challenges to enjoying individual rights and privileges. As a way to ensure the disabled people enjoy their rights, normalization is essential as it provides they live close to the normally-functioning people (Connolly, 2005). Hence satisfying their lives to a higher degree. on the other hand, the person-centered approaches are vital in ensuring the well-being together with the interests of the disabled individuals in the society. As a result, choice and empowerment play a significant role in providing an individual is in a position to live like other people. Besides, it ensures the people can act and conduct their activities like other normally functioning beings irrespective of their disability status. Moreover, empowerment is vital in ensuring the people treat disability with dignity, a fact that provides the people can relate with the disabled with ease. Hence, normalization and empowerment are vital in ensuring a disabled person fulfills his or her potential as far as their abilities are concerned (Connolly, 2005).
References
Connolly, M. &. (2005). Morals, Rights and Practice Effective and Fair Decision-Making in Health, Social Care and Criminal Justice. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
