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Barredo (left; wearing sunglasses) congratulating chess players Henry Lopez (right) and Sander Severino (center) who won gold medals at the 2018 Asian Para Games. Mike Barredo, a blind man himself, organized the Philippine Sports Association for the Differently Abled (PhilSPADA) in 1997, which became the National Paralympic Committee for the Philippines. [2]
Under this Magna Carta for Disabled Persons, it is unlawful for any learning institution "to deny a disabled person admission to any course it offers by reason of handicap or disability." [ 1 ] In formulating educational policies and programs, the State should take into consideration special needs or requirements for PWDs, and it shall also ...
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Filipino people. It includes Filipino people that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Disabled people from the Philippines .
Jane Campbell, Baroness Campbell of Surbiton, disabled rights activist and member of the House of Lords (born with spinal muscular atrophy) Sir Winston Churchill , MP between 1901 and 1964, twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; in his second premiership (1951–55) became increasingly deaf (condition onset 1949) and a wheelchair user ...
The formation of the national sports association that focuses on sports played for Persons with Disabilities or PWDs started as an idea by Michael Barredo, then-former board member of the National Council for the Welfare of Disabled Persons (NCWDP) appointed by former president Fidel V. Ramos in December 1996, after the series of consultations between stakeholders of the sport together with ...
Balais was a television commercial model for Unilab Philippines from 2017 to 2019. [14] He was also featured in several news outlets in the country, including GMA Integrated News ' 24 Oras in 2019, [ 15 ] ABS-CBN Entertainment in 2021, [ 16 ] and CNN Philippines in 2022.
Adeline Dumapong was born in Kiangan, Ifugao to a family of six children. She contracted polio when she was three years old. She spent her elementary and high school days in Bahay Mapagmahal, a housing institution for youth with disabilities and went to school at NOH School for Crippled Children inside the compound of Philippine Orthopedic Center, Quezon City.
Note: This category's interpretation of disability is quite broad, and may include people with medical conditions that may not typically be considered disabled. See also Category:People with disabilities .