Shut out : the experience of people with disabilities and their families in Australia / National People with Disabilities and Carer Council.

Canberra : Commonwealth of Australia, 2009.

200051

Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Optional Protocol -- (2007 March 30)

Human rights -- Australia.

People with disabilities -- Australia.

1. Executive summary

2. Summary and analysis of submissions and consultations - the experience of people with disabilities and their families, friends and carers

2.1. Overview

2.2. 'Excluded and ignored' - the experience of exclusion and discrimination

2.3. 'Broke and broken' - the struggles of the service system

2.4. 'Can't get a job' - the employment experience of people with disabilities

2.5. 'Can't get there, can't get in, can't get it' - negotiating the built environment

2.6. 'The wasted years' - the education experience of people with disabilities

2.7. 'Isolated and alone' - the social experience of disability

2.8. The experience of disadvantaged groups

3. Conclusion - implications for the development of the national disability strategy.

This report analyses the main barriers people with disabilities and their families, friends and carers identified that limit their full participation in the economic and social life of the community.

9781921380549

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