Sentence examples for perception of disabled from inspiring English sources

Seoul in 1988 changed the perception of disabled people in a society which treated them as second-class citizens.

Lister added that, by completing the voyage, she would challenge the public's perception of disabled people: "I want to get able-bodied people to rethink their views about the disabled.

Four years since the perception of disabled athletes was altered for ever by the way their extraordinary feats were embraced and celebrated in London, it is difficult not to suspect that the Paralympic movement is taking a journey into the unknown in Rio.

"This partial picture feeds the tabloid media's negative narrative on 'benefits scroungers', and these releases in turn have an impact on the public – and therefore employers' – perception of disability and disabled people.

It has a profound effect on public perceptions of disabled people".

"The London 2012 Games celebrated Paralympians as sporting equals and changed perceptions of disabled people," said Atkinson.

The government has declared that among its many legacy aims for the London Olympics and Paralympics, it wants to overhaul perceptions of disabled people in Britain.

However, disability rights activists have called for the government to do more to normalise perceptions of disabled people at work, rather than treating the situation as "a problem that needs to be explained away to employers".

As with the Olympics, the Paralympics bears responsibility for a series of expansive legacy promises, including a vow to "change the lives" of 10 million disabled people by "increasing participation in sport and physical activity"; and to transform "attitudes and perceptions of disabled people" in wider society.

Just as the Paralympics have done much to change perceptions of disabled people, so ensembles such as the British Paraorchestra and the South-West Open Youth Orchestra are shifting attitudes by creating a platform for gifted disabled musicians to perform and excel.

"I think everybody's perceptions of disabled sport has changed".