Current

Legislation
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 LAW 7600 vrs 8661

All human beings have some limitation.

We are all capable of doing some things but we can not do others.

People who have physical, mental or sensory impairments. We call these people: in a
situation of disability.
IMPORTANT TERMS
● Diversity
● Difference
● Inequality
● Discrimination
DIVERSITY

● Product of evolution.
● It exists without the human being participating.
● When he perceives it, he classifies it.
DIFFERENCE

● Mental representation of diversity.

● Perceive, recognize and name diversity.
● The human being names them.

● Then it is subject to that differentiation.

INEQUALITY
● Affective and valorative version of the difference.
● One situation, different meanings.
● “Judgment” place we give to the difference in the
scale of values.
● We approximate ourselves according
to the meaning we give it.
DISCRIMINATION
● Behavioral manifestation (discursive or
behavioral) based on inequality.
● Dis-equaling is not
entirely reprehensible, but
promotes discrimination.
Do people with disabilities have special rights?

"We all have equal rights

but we have different
facilitators to access them."
LAW 7600
● Individual model
● Disability = Deficiency
● Deficiency: abnormalities of the body structure and the
appearance and function of an organ or system.
● Work on the deficiency (diabetes, hypertension).
LAW 8661

● Social model
● Disability = Deficiency + Barrier.
● Remove the barriers
● Deficiency without barrier is not disability.
DISABILITY?
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● Individual model ● Social model

● Disability in the individual, change it. ● In the environment, eliminate barriers.

● Focus, absence of functions (mental, ● Change from the individual to the

physical) environment (barriers).

● Rehabilitation, healing (not physical ● Equitable, its environment does not limit it
education, crutches) (extensions)
CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF
INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITY OF THE
UNITED NATIONS

ARTICLE 24: EDUCATION

ARTICLE 24: EDUCATION

1. Right to education in equal opportunities than others. For them, will create an
educational system that allows development:
● Their talent and creativity.
● Their dignity, personality and self-esteem.
● Their mental and physical abilities.
ARTICLE 24: EDUCATION

2. Countries will ensure that people with disabilities:

● Are included in the general education system. (different to integrated).

● Obligatory and free education, primary and secondary, in the same conditions
as the others.
● Have the necessary supports to facilitate their real learning.
ARTICLE 24: EDUCATION
3. Opportunity to learn what allows them to develop:

● It will facilitate the learning of Braile and other alternative communication

systems such as sign language.
● They will provide education in the languages ​that are appropriate for people
with disabilities.
ARTICLE 24: EDUCATION
4. They will employ teachers who know the sign language and the Braille and will
train teachers who know these systems.

● Among the teachers hired there will be teachers with disabilities.

ARTICLE 24: EDUCATION

5. Countries will ensure that people with disabilities:

● Have access to higher education and professional education.

● Have access to adult education and lifelong learning, without discrimination
and on equal terms with others.
EQUALITY EQUITY