Sentences with phrase «disabled people still»

Of course, it can not be denied that a lot of disabled people still suffer from discrimination and stigma despite efforts to integrate them into mainstream society.

We asked for views from disabled people, employers, charities and others on how we can change attitudes among employers as well as improving local services so that we can break down the barriers disabled people still face in the labour market.

Other learning disabled people still have no choice but to live in a residential environment, most typically a nursing, care or group home.

The reason: Almost 40 years after passage of the landmark federal Fair Housing Act, one in five African Americans and one in three disabled persons still face housing discrimination in the United States, according to HUD.

Not exact matches

A special needs trust lets parents, other family members and other interested parties contribute funds for the benefit of a disabled person, while also enabling him or her to still receive means - tested benefits such as Medicaid and Security Supplemental Income (SSI).

The program was and still is designed to serve as a financial safety net for retirees and those receiving benefits as a surviving spouse, surviving dependent child or as a person who is permanently and totally disabled.

«As chaplain to a group of disabled children travelling to Lourdes with HCPT he was as happy speaking with them as with any able bodied person, and thrived on the levelling which Lourdes offers: it doesn't matter how old you are or whether you can walk or speak, you still have value and worth.

Even with the steady proliferation of various kinds of public assistance, services, and institutional care, families are still the major means though which society deals with persons who are not independent: the young, the aged, the sick, the severely disabled, and the needy.

Underlying the presence of physical barriers in churches and seminaries is a set of still - perpetuated attitudinal barriers — primarily the following: (1) low expectations on the part of both pastors and laypeople of just what a disabled person can do; (2) a psychologically defined negation, usually unconscious, reflecting the Jamesian response of «fight or fly»; (3) simple lack of experience with handicapped persons, and consequent embarrassment; (4) biblically derived sanctions, expressing thousands of years of tradition.

The second sign of hope is how many young people have rallied around Adam, even as adults still feel somewhat awkward: There remains a cultural fear and lack of understanding toward special - needs children and the disabled.

But here's the thing: even the people making documentaries about how football disables and kills people still love the sport.

The structures of the romance genre — which rely upon white, middle - class, able - bodied, and heterosexual norms of social mobility and citizenship through the marriage union — make a nonstereotypical and nondiscriminatory inclusion of black and disabled people quite difficult, since social mobility, rights of citizenship, and marriage are still actively denied to black and disabled people.»

For learning disabled people, their long walk to freedom was to commence much later than for other human rights campaigns, and the abuses which had to be overcome are still occurring today.

«Even with today's decision on severely disabled children, disabled people will still be amongst the hardest hit by the bedroom tax, with # 300 million being cut from their housing support.

Many vulnerable people are still impacted by the bedroom tax such as the poor and the disabled and it is actively reducing their living standards.

The Chancellor said: «The disability budget will still rise by more than # 1billion, and we'll be spending more in real terms supporting disabled people than at any point under the last government.»

But they still have no deal to protect the most severely disabled people in the state.

Anthony Thomas, Chairman of LITRG, said: «It is a pity that some disabled people in work may still not always get the support they need from HMRC.

They tell us to blame the unemployed, the disabled, public sector workers, Trade Unions and immigrants for the state the country is in and time and again, people fall for it and still end up questioning why their lives continue to stink, whilst looking for another demographic to blame for their plight.

Even its longtime work and pensions secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, eventually broke ranks and resigned after a budget that proposed still further cuts to disabled people's benefits.

UKIP want to cut taxes for «everyone» (yes, for «everyone») but they want an investment programme to create one million jobs; put more police on the beat and more people in prison; expand NHS services to the disabled; re-introduce student grants; improve pensions; and, not mentioned in Eastleigh but still party policy, they want to protect defence spending too.

Nicky Morgan twice claimed plans to slash Personal Independence Payments (PIP) for disabled people were still under a consultation - despite it formally ending a week ago.

Online dating at the age of 76 is still possible, internet dating websites are used for seeking carers for disabled people now and online dating addiction has become a problem for many people in recent times.

Fragment still further access to local authority support services, such as support for disabled children and young people and those with special educational needs, and weaken local co-ordination of education provision.

It is still difficult for many people to not only accept the existence of the gifted learning disabled child, but to also understand the need for special programming.

I am still disabled and money is soooo tight with the economy the way that it is but having these 2 new little ones along with my 12 year old sweet girl cat (gotten from a shelter when she was 10 weeks old) make me feel like the riches person on earth.

They hope that Hank's story will show people that disabled cats can still make excellent companions.

While private cars will be banned, buses will still be allowed, as well as trucks carrying goods to stores and vehicles for disabled people.

The bottom line is the answer to this question: «Would the applicant still be disabled if the person was not using drugs or alcohol?»

If you press the mute button on your Echo device during a phone call, it will disable the microphone so the person you are talking to will no longer hear you, but you will still be able to hear them.

But people still are determined to disable services.

Though Facebook offers a way to disable auto - play of News Feed videos when you're not on Wi - Fi to save people's data plans, some users who didn't still felt burned when they saw their bills.

Microsoft should still provide a way to let people disable this feature without enabling Airplane Mode every time they put their device to sleep.

Apple still doesn't recommend people disable it as this could lead to unexpected shutdowns, but users will likely appreciate having the option.

However, if you don't want to use Bixby and do want to disable it, you are still able to do just that, which is fine for most people.

By disabling this setting, people can still just copy and paste that information wherever they like, so I don't see this as very harmful.