Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century

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The aim of the DVP is to create intersectional, multi-modal, and accessible disabled media. [1] The platform serves as a space for disabled people and people with disabilities to make their voices heard. Participants who share their interviews and stories contribute to an archive of powerful stories that are available to future generations. [11] Special provisions apply when determining whether the effects of an impairment that has fluctuating or recurring effects are long-term. ( See paragraphs C5 to C11). Also a person who is deemed to be a disabled person does not need to satisfy the long-term requirement. ( See paragraphs A9 to A10.) D10. However, many types of specialised work-related or other activities may still involve normal day-to-day activities which can be adversely affected by an impairment. For example they may involve normal activities such as: sitting down, standing up, walking, running, difficulty in going up or down steps, stairs or gradients; for example, because movements are painful, fatiguing or restricted in some way

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B23. Whether the effects of any treatment can qualify for the purposes of Sch1, Para 8, which provides that a person with a progressive condition is to be regarded as having an impairment that has a substantial adverse effect on his or her ability to carry out normal day- to-day activities, will depend on the circumstances of the individual case. Severe disfigurements A man with osteoarthritis experiences significant pain in his hands undertaking tasks such as using a keyboard at home or work, peeling vegetables, opening jars and writing. C8. Regulations specifically exclude seasonal allergic rhinitis (for example, hayfever) except where it aggravates the effects of an existing condition. [footnote 7] For example, this may occur in some cases of asthma. ( See also paragraphs A12 to A15 (exclusions).) Likelihood of recurrenceD1. The Act looks at a person’s impairment and whether it substantially and adversely affects the person’s ability to carry out normal day-to- day activities. Meaning of ‘normal day-to-day activities’ C5. The Act states that, if an impairment has had a substantial adverse effect on a person’s ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities but that effect ceases, the substantial effect is treated as continuing if it is likely to recur. (In deciding whether a person has had a disability in the past, the question is whether a substantial adverse effect has in fact recurred.) Conditions with effects which recur only sporadically or for short periods can still qualify as impairments for the purposes of the Act, in respect of the meaning of ‘long-term’ ( Sch1, Para 2(2), see also paragraphs C3 to C4 (meaning of likely).)

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a b "These 16 People and Groups Are Fighting for a More Equal America". Time . Retrieved 2020-10-13. This has a substantial adverse effect on her ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities. Effect of treatment or correction measures difficulty going out of doors unaccompanied, for example, because the person has a phobia, a physical restriction, or a learning disability B16. Account should be taken of where the effect of the continuing medical treatment is to create a permanent improvement rather than a temporary improvement. It is necessary to consider whether, as a consequence of the treatment, the impairment would cease to have a substantial adverse effect. For example, a person who develops pneumonia may be admitted to hospital for treatment including a course of antibiotics. This cures the impairment and no substantial effects remain. ( See also paragraph C11, regarding medical or other treatment that permanently reduces or removes the effects of an impairment.) A man with depression experiences a range of symptoms that include a loss of energy and motivation that makes even the simplest of tasks or decisions seem quite difficult. He finds it difficult to get up in the morning, get washed and dressed, and prepare breakfast. He is forgetful and cannot plan ahead. As a result he has often run out of food before he thinks of going shopping again. Household tasks are frequently left undone, or take much longer to complete than normal. Together, the effects amount to the impairment having a substantial adverse effect on carrying out normal day-to-day activities.D6. Also, whether an activity is a normal day-to-day activity should not be determined by whether it is more normal for it to be carried out at a particular time of day. For example, getting out of bed and getting dressed are activities that are normally associated with the morning. They may be carried out much later in the day by workers who work night shifts, but they would still be considered to be normal day-to- day activities. A man has an operation to remove the colon because of progressing and uncontrollable ulcerative colitis. The operation results in his no longer experiencing adverse effects from the colitis. He requires a colostomy, however, which means that his bowel actions can only be controlled by a sanitary appliance. This requirement for an appliance substantially affects his ability to undertake a normal day-to-day activity and should be taken into account as an adverse effect arising from the original impairment.