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  2. Timeline of disability rights outside the United States

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    1992 – The Disability Discrimination Act 1992 became law in Australia, and it banned discrimination against people with disabilities in employment, education, access to premises, accommodation, buying or selling land, activities of clubs, sport, administration of Commonwealth laws and programs, provision of goods, and services and facilities ...

  3. Employment equity (Canada) - Wikipedia

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    The Employment Equity Act designates four groups as the beneficiaries of employment equity: [1]. Women; People with disabilities; Aboriginal peoples, a category consisting of Status Indians, Non-status Indians, Métis (people of mixed Indigenous-French ancestry in western Canada), and Inuit (the Indigenous people of the Arctic).

  4. Workforce Australia - Wikipedia

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    Workforce Australia is an Australian Government-funded network of organisations (private and community, and originally also government) that are contracted by the Australian Government, through the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR), to deliver employment services to unemployed job seekers on Government income support payments and employers.

  5. History of deaf education - Wikipedia

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    Since more individuals with disabilities live in China than any other country in the world, special education has become an important area of focus. China once had great ideological resources in this field; yet, the schools for disabled people created in the late nineteenth century were established by Western missionaries .

  6. Services and supports for people with disabilities - Wikipedia

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    According to the Americans with disabilities act, people with disabilities are guaranteed equal opportunities when it comes to public accommodation, jobs, transportation, [6] government services and telecommunications. These allow for Americans with disabilities to be able to live as normal lives as possible apart from their disadvantage.

  7. Inclusion (education) - Wikipedia

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    Inclusion has different historical roots/background which may be integration of students with severe disabilities in the US (who may previously been excluded from schools or even lived in institutions) [7] [8] [9] or an inclusion model from Canada and the US (e.g., Syracuse University, New York) which is very popular with inclusion teachers who believe in participatory learning, cooperative ...

  8. Disability Discrimination Act 1992 - Wikipedia

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    The Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (Cth) is an Act passed by the Parliament of Australia in which prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in employment, education, publicly available premises, provision of goods and services, accommodation, clubs and associations, and other contexts. Discrimination is defined to include ...

  9. Rehabilitation Act of 1973 - Wikipedia

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    Rehabilitation Act of 1973; Long title: An Act to replace the Vocational Rehabilitation Act, to extend and revise the authorization of grants to States for vocational rehabilitation services, with special emphasis on services to those with the most severe disabilities, to expand special Federal responsibilities and research and training programs with respect to individuals with disabilities ...