Do not focus on our disability, try to focus on our ability- Disability Forum Coordinator member

Do not focus on our disability but try to focus on our ability.

This was highlighted by the Pacific Disability Forum Coordinator Member Service Unit, Angeline Chand during the workshop for the Pacific Disability Forum.

Chand says a person with a disability also has the right to be included in any services in the communities.

She says the purpose of the workshop is for people to think about how they look at people with disabilities.

She adds when we look at the Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, it refers to the person with disabilities who have long-term impairments which could be physical and they may be using a wheelchair or have no upper limbs or anything to do with their physical body.

Meanwhile, Pacific Disability Forum Communication Officer, Paradise Tabucala says a disabled person should be referred to as a person with a disability, not a person living with a disability.

She says the Pacific Disability Forum wants the media to avoid the use of terms such as disabled, handicapped, special, deaf, dumb, mute, dwarf, the blind and many more.