The Story of Different Minds  ·  The Disability Discrimination Act

Access Duties

Why services and employers had to think about barriers.

The barrier became part of the legal question.

Simple version

Disability discrimination law required organisations to think about access and unequal treatment.

Why it matters

This moved some responsibility from the individual to the system.

Awareverse lens

Awareverse applies the same thinking to communication, sensory needs and executive functioning.

Question to ask

When looking at access duties, ask: who had power, who was being labelled, and what would have changed if the human being had been seen first?

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