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Inklusi dan Aksesibilitas: Jalan untuk Kembali Menjadi Manusia Seutuhnya

Penny Handayani & Anissa Azura. “Inclusion and Accessibility. A
Way to Return to Our Whole Humanity.”
Indonesia is home to about 27 million people with disability. A
person with disability is defi ned as anyone who has long term physical
limitations as well as mental, intellectual or sensory impairments
resulting in diffi culty in overcoming various obstacles as well as in
participating fully and effectively in society based on equal rights. There
are various types of disability including the blindness, deafness, speech
impairment, learning diffi culties, autism and attention defi cit disorder.
Society used to assume that people with disability are unproductive
and unable to perform their duties and responsibilities. The fact is that
they are not different from normal people except that they need some
assistive devices to support them. The physical environment is usually
one of the biggest barriers for people with disability that make them
feel desperate. Hence, it is important for the society to understand the
concept of inclusion so that they would be able to help people with
disability to become actively involved in the community. One way to
implement the principle of inclusion is to provide assistive devices for
people with disability to increase their self-confi dence so that they will
be able to work and to live together with us,although in a different way.

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