Which of the following insights is being stressed by advocacy groups regarding persons with disabilities today?
a. Disability results when physical and social barriers in the environment prevent a person from taking equal part in community life.
b. Handicapped persons have as much right to social support as nonhandicapped persons.
c. It is recognized that an individual may be limited by an environmental barrier in society.
d. Impairment is a result of society's reaction more than mental or physical condition.
ANS: A
Nearly all definitions identify an individual as disabled on the basis of a physical or mental impairment that limits the person's ability to perform an important activity. The complementary possibilityâ€"that the individual is limited by a barrier in society or the environmentâ€"is never considered. Advocacy groups are stressing that environment and the reactions of others are as crucial as the actual physical or mental limitation.
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