Reframes

Reframe Assumptions: Myths and Facts about Disabilty

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Volume 8 Issue 1 January, 2018

❌ Disabilities are always physical and visible

✅ Disabilities are of many types like psychiatric illness and many are invisible

❌ Individuals with learning disability are not intelligent

✅ Majority have average or above average intelligence

❌ Wheelchairs are only for paraplegics

✅ Mobility aids are used for wide range of conditions from fatigue to paraplegia

❌ Employing a person with disability can be costly for the employer

✅ Not really, majority do not require costly aids

❌ A successful differently-abled person is considered to be a superhuman and they want to be

✅ A disabled person just want to be treated like a normal individual

Dr. Priyanka Mantagi, Intern. MVJMC & RH, Hoskote, Bengaluru