"including individuals with disabilities in everyday activities and ensuring they have access to resources and opportunities in ways that are similar to their non-disabled peers."
Creating an environment where everyone feels welcomed and valued, regardless of their cultural background, by promoting equity, representation, and access to resources and opportunities.
Diversity: Refers to the differences in race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, ability, age, religion, and socioeconomic status among people.
Cultural Competence: Refers to an individual's ability to understand and respect different cultures; includes knowledge, skills, and attitudes.
Stereotypes: Refers to generalizations about groups of people based on limited or incomplete information.
Prejudice: Refers to negative attitudes or beliefs about a group of people based on stereotypes.
Discrimination: Refers to denying equal opportunities or treatment to an individual or a group based on their race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, ability, or any other characteristic.
Microaggressions: Refers to comments, behaviors or actions that are often unintentional but still convey negative attitudes or stereotypes towards marginalized groups.
Intersectionality: Refers to how different forms of oppression, such as racism, sexism, homophobia, and ableism, overlap and intersect.
Equity: Refers to fairness and justice in the distribution of resources, opportunities, and benefits, to ensure that everyone has what they need to succeed.
Inclusion: Refers to creating an environment that welcomes and respects the diversity of all individuals, and where everyone feels valued, included, and empowered.
Privilege: Refers to the advantages and benefits that certain groups have based on their social identity, and which they may be unaware of or take for granted.
Racial Diversity: This type of inclusivity refers to recognizing and embracing people from different racial backgrounds.
Ethnic Diversity: This type of inclusivity focuses on recognizing and respecting people coming from different ethnic backgrounds.
Linguistic Diversity: This type of inclusivity emphasizes recognizing and accepting people who speak different languages.
Religious Diversity: This type of inclusivity recognizes and accepts people of different religions and faiths.
Gender Diversity: This type of inclusivity recognizes and embraces people of different gender identities, including transgender people.
Ability Diversity: This type of inclusivity emphasizes recognizing and accommodating people with different abilities and disabilities.
Age Diversity: This type of inclusivity recognizes and respects people of different ages, including seniors and younger people.
Socio-Economic Diversity: This type of inclusivity acknowledges people from different socio-economic backgrounds.
Cultural Diversity: This type of inclusivity focuses on accepting and celebrating different cultural beliefs, practices, and traditions.
Regional Diversity: This type of inclusivity recognizes and embraces people from different regions of the world and acknowledges their unique contributions to society.
"results-oriented, rather than focused merely on encouragement."
"People with disabilities do not face barriers to participation and have equal access to opportunities and resources."
"inaccessible physical environments and methods of public transportation, lack of assistive devices and technologies, non-adapted means of communication, gaps in service delivery."
"They hinder the involvement of all people with a health condition in all areas of life."
"It supposes that a disability inherently reduces the individual's quality of life and aims to use medical intervention to diminish or correct the disability."
"physical and/or mental therapies, medications, surgeries, and assistive devices."
"They allege that this approach is wrong and that those who have physical, sensory, intellectual, and/or developmental impairments have better outcomes if, instead, it is not assumed that they have a lower quality of life."
"It is an alternative approach that focuses on societal barriers and rejects the notion of individuals needing to be "fixed"."
"It is not assumed that they have a lower quality of life."
"focused merely on encouragement."
"If people with disabilities do not face barriers to participation and have equal access to opportunities and resources."
"inaccessible physical environments and methods of public transportation."
"It is a common barrier to full social and economic inclusion."
"It is a common barrier to full social and economic inclusion."
"Lack of accessible services and support designed for their specific needs."
"They hinder the involvement of all people with a health condition in all areas of life."
"It supposes that a disability inherently reduces the individual's quality of life and aims to use medical intervention to diminish or correct the disability."
"Becoming active participants in all aspects of life without a presumption of lower quality of life."
"It is not assumed that they have a lower quality of life and they are not looked at as though they need to be "fixed"."