We do spend a lot on improvising the lives of people with disability. Perhaps we should spend more but there has been a vast improvement over the last 20 years.
We do spend a lot on improvising the lives of people with disability. Perhaps we should spend more but there has been a vast improvement over the last 20 years.To continue the analogy, why not do it the other way around and have a month long focus on the issues facing people with disabilities perhaps (and this is crazy talk) culminating in initiatives that actually improve their lives.
There is a big difference between advocating for better services and being denied your rights. Disabled people rights are well catered for under Irish law.
Speaking as a father and step father of children with additional needs (my kids call our house "Teach-t'ism") I can say that the supports available now are incredibly good in comparison to what was in place 15-20 years ago. The issue is that we train lots of people to work in this area and a large proportion of them then choose to work part time. 96% of them are women and 42% work part time. There is a strong correlation between gender and part time work. The same problem exists in nursing and, to a lesser but growing extent, in medicine. Funding, legislation and intent from the State in the area of disability are not the issues causing the problems. High marginal tax rates, high childcare costs and very generous welfare rates are the problem.the Act for Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Acts has yet to be fully commenced. Some 20yrs after it passed through the Dáil.
maybe it should be called Teach lán T'ism since there's so many of us and none of us are normal. .(my kids call our house "Teach-t'ism")