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Fewer than this percent of Americans who have disabilities are currently working.
What is 20%?
In a nationally representative public opinion poll, this percent of the general public agreed or strongly agreed with the statement that learning disabilities (LD) was a term often used to describe a condition that could really be called laziness
What is 50%?
Disabilities are more common among this gender
Who are females?
This number out of 26 million people with disabilities are not even in the labor force
What is 21 million?
These groups allow members to address stigmatised social identities and provides opportunities to engage with ideas about rights, empowerment and greater equality.
What are Self-advocacy groups?
How many countries (out of 195) have signed CRPD an agreement to protect the rights of people with dissabillites.
What is 170?
In 2009 when the annual unemployment rate for people without disabilities was 9 percent, the rate for people who have disabilities was this percent.
What is 14.5 percent?
Up until this year many adults and children with a learning disability had to stay in large institutions.
What is 1970?
This percent of people with disabilities do not have their general needs of assistance met.
What is 40%?
Is it still hard for Disabled people to find a job despite the Americans with Disabilities Act
What is yes?
Children with special educational needs (SEN) are this many times as likely to be bullied regularly than children with no SEN
What is twice(2x)?
This percent of disabled people cannot afford health care.
What is 50%?
In this year, the Americans with Disabilities Act was passed to help lessen discrimination against those with disabilities in the workplace.
What is 1990?
This percentage of respondents in the 2017 British Attitudes Survey thought that disabled people are not as productive as non-disabled people.
What is 32%?
Over this many people or 15% of the world's population live with some form of a disability
What is 1 billion?