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Inclusive Communities = Stronger Communities GLOBAL REPORT ON ARTICLE 19: THE RIGHT TO LIVE AND BE INCLUDED IN THE COMMUNITY 93 Figure 9: Inclusive Education. Country Profiles survey Figure 10: Educational programmes for adults with disabilities Country Profiles survey For adults with intellectual disabilities little or no vocational training is available but for those that do access some programmeming it is most likely to be in programmes designed for people with disabilities and respondents indicated that many of these programmes are “lifeskills” programmes which do not provide employment skills.
94 Inclusive Communities = Stronger Communities GLOBAL REPORT ON ARTICLE 19: THE RIGHT TO LIVE AND BE INCLUDED IN THE COMMUNITY While people with intellectual disabilities seemed to fare better in accessing health care than education and employment, care tends to be delivered through disability specific programmes and services and is not delivered on an equal basis with others in the community. People with intellectual disabilities are more likely to live in poverty and people who are poor are much less likely to access health care in both high and low income countries. Figure 11: Characteristics of the health services for people with disability. Country Profiles survey Barriers to inclusion may be attitudinal or exist in policy or law. Several key issues were identified as critical factors in the exclusion faced by people with intellectual disabilities from their communities. Key Issues: ‰ Societal Attitudes The overwhelming message from self-advocates and families was that communities and societal attitudes including religious beliefs were negative towards the inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities. Fear, prejudice and ignorance characterized the response from communities when people who had been excluded previously attempted to participate. A mother in Russia told us “I wanted to take my child to the children’s party devoted to the New Year celebration, but they didn’t let me. This is the attitude not only of our society but also of government and
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