Sentences with phrase «assumptions about disabilities»

A big assumption about disability is that you're disabled your whole life.

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AAAS Board Chair Geraldine Richmond, who convened the 28 April forum, said unconscious assumptions about gender, ethnicity, disabilities, nationality, and institutions clearly limit the diversity of the science and technology talent pool and undermine scientific innovation.

For many of them, it's because people explicitly taught them... particularly for the dyslexics and the students that have other hidden disabilities, having a name for why they weren't learning how to read, and not allowing them to develop a negative assumption about their own capability, was really important.

In fact, the same common treatment practices that Levine suggests are rooted in assumptions about the nature of learning disabilities.

The organization's success challenges society's assumptions about inclusion and exclusion in art and culture, disability visibility, and access to creative expression as a human right; like any other contemporary artists, Creative Growth artists use art to tell their stories.

The right to damages for wrongful dismissal and the right to disability benefits were based on opposing assumptions about the employee's ability to work.