Thursday, August 19 2010
Ai-Media welcomes the Productivity Commission's inquiry into disability reform as an opportunity to tackle these long term intergenerational challenges. We hope that the inquiry will shine light on issues that can no longer be swept under the carpet.
Impairment is a fact of life. Disability is not. Ai-Media contends that it is community understanding of the nexus between impairment, disability, access and inclusion that is the key to transforming the impact of disability; and unlocking the productive capability of this lost sector of the economy.
The remainder of this submission deals with the issues of how best to structure economic incentives to achieve inclusion for people historically suffering disability. Because of our focus, we will use deafness as an illustrative example of general principles that might be brought to bear in the design of an NDIS.
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