The definition of disability is “a condition such as an illness or an injury that damages or limits a person's physical or mental abilities” according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary (n.d.), and the meaning to discrimination conferring to the Webster’s New World Law Dictionary (2010) states, “the act of denying rights, benefits, justice, equitable treatment, or access to facilities available to all others, to an individual or group of people because of their race, age, gender, handicap, or other defining characteristic”. Many individuals are faced with discrimination because of their limitation and there are those who are willing to admit it is, not truthfully, accepted in today’s world. Perfection and strength goes hand in hand, the Greek
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As stated before disable individuals are categorized as a minority group; is a “dynamic interaction between strong and weak social groups”, focusing on individual’s color of their skin, diversity, and religion (Pasotti, 2010). Theories are essential in promoting, researching, and how practical they can be for instance in the health care field the use of positivism theory with social model of disabilities remains to be the favorite contender when providing service to the disabled. This theory focuses how to come up with a cure if any, reducing impairment, or can assist with a clinical intervention by using controlled trails, random statistical samples, and structured questionnaires (Oliver, 1998, ). Social model of disability is promoting equality and it is everyone’s responsibility to fairly and equally treat everyone, especially those who are in the health and social care practice this focuses on structures and barriers of the individual experiences and to take notice the importance of interacting with people who have disabilities (Hugh, 2011). This model has influence public policy making, Anti-discrimination laws, equal opportunity for instance conveying the attention there may be some deficiency of services or support that the disable individual may encounter causing difficulties to participate within society (Byrne, 2007, Anastasiou, …show more content…
These policies ensure all citizens, especially the impaired are not to be discriminated and it will not be tolerated in any aspect and no one can or will denied anyone’s equal rights. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was created in 1964 under the title VII of the Civil Rights Act of that year (Twomey, 2012). This law prohibits any form of discrimination to any employee by investigating complaints that have been filed. The investigation are conducted by trained counselors of the agency who have received an informal complaint of an alleged discrimination that cannot be no older than 45 days of the date that was filed and the counselor job is resolve the matter amicably if not the complainant has 15 days to file a formal complaint (Rosenblum, 2012). The agency makes a determination if the complaint has solid standing and will then proceed to accept, deny, or partially make a ruling. If the ruling was accept a full investigation will be conduct following the guidelines of the EEOC regulation using the methods of sworn witness interviews, documentation, interrogatories, conferences, and any other information that can be collected. Once all data is collect the complainant will receive within 30 days of what was found and if it should proceed to
As stated before disable individuals are categorized as a minority group; is a “dynamic interaction between strong and weak social groups”, focusing on individual’s color of their skin, diversity, and religion (Pasotti, 2010). Theories are essential in promoting, researching, and how practical they can be for instance in the health care field the use of positivism theory with social model of disabilities remains to be the favorite contender when providing service to the disabled. This theory focuses how to come up with a cure if any, reducing impairment, or can assist with a clinical intervention by using controlled trails, random statistical samples, and structured questionnaires (Oliver, 1998, ). Social model of disability is promoting equality and it is everyone’s responsibility to fairly and equally treat everyone, especially those who are in the health and social care practice this focuses on structures and barriers of the individual experiences and to take notice the importance of interacting with people who have disabilities (Hugh, 2011). This model has influence public policy making, Anti-discrimination laws, equal opportunity for instance conveying the attention there may be some deficiency of services or support that the disable individual may encounter causing difficulties to participate within society (Byrne, 2007, Anastasiou, …show more content…
These policies ensure all citizens, especially the impaired are not to be discriminated and it will not be tolerated in any aspect and no one can or will denied anyone’s equal rights. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was created in 1964 under the title VII of the Civil Rights Act of that year (Twomey, 2012). This law prohibits any form of discrimination to any employee by investigating complaints that have been filed. The investigation are conducted by trained counselors of the agency who have received an informal complaint of an alleged discrimination that cannot be no older than 45 days of the date that was filed and the counselor job is resolve the matter amicably if not the complainant has 15 days to file a formal complaint (Rosenblum, 2012). The agency makes a determination if the complaint has solid standing and will then proceed to accept, deny, or partially make a ruling. If the ruling was accept a full investigation will be conduct following the guidelines of the EEOC regulation using the methods of sworn witness interviews, documentation, interrogatories, conferences, and any other information that can be collected. Once all data is collect the complainant will receive within 30 days of what was found and if it should proceed to