Minority Inclusion (Disability)

According to Randall’s website, a minority group is an inferior group whose members have considerably less control or influence over their lives than members of a widespread do or majority group. A minority group is not limited to statistical minority: example women, Blacks in South Africa, Blacks in Mississippi and South Carolina in the 1920’s. A minority group is exchangeable with inferior groups and experiences a reduction of opportunities (success, education, wealth, etc) that is extremely low compared to their numbers in society.

The characteristics of a Minority Group are distinguishing physical or cultural traits, example skin colour or language, unequal treatment and less control over their lives, involuntary membership in the group (no personal choice), consciousness of subordination and well-built sense of group cohesion and high in – group marriage. (Randall, 2007)

According to Randall’s Website, types of minority groups are groups of people, within a society, whose members have different ethnic groups who are, differentiate based on culture such as language and food. Different racial groups who are classify according to their obvious physical characteristics, example skin colours, different religious groups who have a religion than the dominant faith. Different sexual groups, males are a social majority; women exhibit four out of five features of minority status, different political groups, linguistic groups, or other characteristics from the rest of society.

Disability is a Minority.

The minority group want to consider is persons with a disability. The Disability rights movement has contributed to accepting person with a disability as a minority or a combination of minorities that are underprivileged by the community, not just, as people are underprivileged by their impairments. Advocates of disability rights issue emphasis on the difference in physical or cognitive functioning, rather than inferiority — for instance, a group of people with autism struggle for acceptance of neuro-diversity, much as opponents of racism struggle for acceptance of cultural diversity. The hearing-impaired area is regard as a linguistic and ethnic minority rather than a disabled group, and many hearing-impaired people do not perceive themselves as disabled at all. To a certain extent, technologies and social institutions that are mean to provide for the prevailing group have disadvantaged them. (Fleischer & Zames, 2001)

From a document written in the year 1995 of a transcript presentation by Camilleri, Joseph M, found that there was still much effort to do to get the right of equal opportunities for persons with a disability. After fifteen years, now a day in 2010, the right for equal opportunities is working, the Me Too program is an example. The “Me Too” program helps persons with a disability to be included in the work force independently by assessing and train them. Still, think that it is too premature to say if it will be so successful the “Me Too” program. After nearly seven months, certain persons with severe disability that are in this program due the fact that their parents or guardians had filled a form for them, they still have not improved, whilst the other with less severe Disability and wished by their own will and with the approval of their parents to take part, they improved. There is a percentage of parents that have not given their consent to the son or daughter even though the excellent ability to work. This made me nuts.