Sentence examples for disabilities to challenge from inspiring English sources

Each offers a chance for people with learning disabilities to challenge decision-making professionals, chief executives, politicians and service-providers.

While the case will probably proceed through appeals, Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis's thoroughly documented findings of fact and thoughtfully reasoned conclusions of law will echo across the nation to enable hundreds of thousands of people with mental disabilities to challenge — even avoid — unnecessary confinement in proprietary nursing facilities and board-and-care homes.

These initiatives aim to support parents to care for children living with disabilities and to challenge stigma and discrimination such that institutional care is a last resort.

With a special focus on fostering inclusion and diversity, the Global Youth Summit pairs these young leaders to develop strategies designed to change people's perceptions about disability and to challenge negative attitudes.

"With Off the Record, we weren't necessarily interested in making a statement about disability; we were wanting to challenge people's perceptions of society," says Channells.

Public financing for religious education through tuition vouchers; the boundaries of free speech on the Internet; the constitutionality of executing the retarded; the future of affirmative action in federal contracting; the legal definition of disability; even patients' rights to challenge decisions on managed care treatment are all on the court's agenda.

Last month's election to the United Nation's Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) unfortunately did little to challenge that.

It was also proposed that patients with intellectual disabilities may be less likely to challenge errors or delays to their care or that they may fail to comply with investigations or treatment, consequently resulting in delays or omissions.

Today's workshop, which takes place during Learning Disability Week at Norfolk Lodge where Sheffield Mencap is based, aims to challenge perceptions of learning disability and encourage more people – both with and without disabilities – to write.

"I don't mind the fight – trying to challenge people about disability athletics is what I'm meant to do.

My first thought, given I did not know the actors, was that the casting director had found the most unbelievable actors with disabilities to play the challenging roles.