Sentence examples for understood disability from inspiring English sources

Those who thought David Cameron understood disability because of his late son were very wrong.

Deaf people often blame these situations on a lack of 'deaf awareness', and indeed deafness is a very poorly understood disability.

When I wrote Scapegoat, I wanted to see what similarities there were between offenders, locations, victims, to see if there was anything we could do to establish risk profiles that might help disabled people and organisations better understand disability hate crime.

A lot of disabilities are not represented in the Games and, while the public may assume they understand disability because of the Games, they do not see the everyday lives of disabled people behind the scenes.

At Scope we want to people to understand disability better and feel less awkward.

A further benefit of using ethnographic techniques emerges through the analysis of how non-governmental organisations understand disability issues.

"The vision for this space began many years ago when we realized that students with disabilities often don't have a strong voice on campus and that people on campus sometimes make inaccurate assumptions when they don't understand disability," Erickson said.

In general, however, philosophy has benefited from applying feminism's theoretical lenses to better understand disability.

Either those people are blind (which would be very ironic) or they don't understand disability that well.

"Chinese people were able to understand disability better than before," Xiaojie Zheng, secretary of the Hong Dan Dan centre, an organisation supporting the blind in Beijing, told The Independent in 2012.

In contrast, the social model understands disability as a relation between an individual and her social environment: the exclusion of people with certain physical and mental characteristics from major domains of social life.