Environmental Issues

In 2006, The United National Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities was enacted, however, not all accessibility needs are currently being met. Many barriers still exist including barriers to shopping, attending school/work, or recreational activities (Jackson 2018). People with disabilities are categorized by their primary disability (e.g., intellectual, autism, hearing impaired, wheel chair…

Physical barriers can come from the natural environment or also from human-made changes within the natural environment. The natural environmental barriers can be as diverse as the terrain and climate to human-made changes including things such as walkways and other things built into the environment. Able-bodied people give little thought to these barriers but it…

Another interesting environmental disability is a deadly combination of inactive lifestyle and nutrition. This is not the typical disability that one thinks about when looking at environmental issues and the disabled individual. However, this is a growing problem as there has been an increase in obesity over the past couple of decades and it is…