Most people face hardships at one time or another. However, for people with disabilities, barriers can be more frequent and have more serious consequences. Barriers are factors in a person’s environment that limit functioning and cause disability.
Such factors include physical barriers, lack of relevant assistive technology, negative attitudes by people towards disability and services systems and policies that are either non-existent or hinder the emancipation of all people with health conditions in all areas of everyday life.
These barriers to normal living lead to social inequalities that undermine the well-being of society. In its latest annual report, the Commission for the Rights of Persons with disability confirmed that, in 2017, it handled 522 complaints, 44 per cent of them being against government entities. Many rightly wonder why the government is not leading by example in bringing down the barriers encountered by people with disabilities.
The majority of complaints against government entities related to the education sector and mainly involved issues with learning support educators at schools as well as matters involving students with disabilities and certain courses...
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