Integrated National Disability Strategy

White Paper
Office of the President

APPENDIX A

Structures That May be Involved in Monitoring Disability

Office on the Status of Disabled Persons, Office of the Deputy President

South African Human Rights Commission

The Public Protector

The Commission on Gender Equality

The National Youth Commission

The Consumer Council

Public Service Commission

Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA)

The Constitutional Court

Industrial Court

National Economic Development Labour Council (NEDLAC)

Commission for the Protection of Cultural, Linguistic and Religious Communities

South African Federal Council on Disability

Disabled People's Organisations

Other NGOs

APPENDIX B

Glossary of Terms

It is important that terminology and definitions reflect a definite shift in philosophy and a move away from the present medical/individual approach to disability. The language needs to reflect the fact that the difficulties learners experience are not just within themselves, but also in the social environments in which they are living and learning.

Assistive devices
Assistive devices are any device and ergonomic solution capable of reducing the handicap experienced by an individual.

Community based rehabilitation (CBR)
Community based rehabilitation is a strategy within community development for the rehabilitation, equalisation of opportunities and social integration of all people with disabilities. It is implemented through the combined efforts of disabled people themselves, their families and communities, and the appropriate health, education, vocational and social services. (ILO/WHO/UNESCO Joint Position Paper, 1994)

It is therefore a strategy for enhancing the quality of life of disabled people by improving service- delivery, by providing more equitable opportunities and by promoting and protecting their human rights. (Helander, UNDP, 1994)

Disabled person
'An individual whose prospects of securing and retaining suitable employment are substantially reduced as a result of physical or mental impairment' (ILO Convention 159)

Early childhood development (ECD)
(See ECD Policy Guidelines Document)

Environmental accessibility
The term encompasses both accessibility of the built environment and accessibility in terms of access to communication, for example,

1. Design of buildings, nature trails, urban and rural infrastructure that will ensure inclusive use by all citizens, including wheelchair users and parents with prams.

2. Use of technology that will ensure inclusive use by all consumers, e.g. the use of Sign Language on television, availability of documents in Braille and/or on cassettte.

Human resource development (HRD)
Human resource development is a set of social investments which support the development of a healthy, educated, stable and productive population. It addresses the development of human capabilities, abilities, knowledge and know-how to meet people's evergrowing needs for goods and services, to improve their standard of living and quality of life. It is a process in which citizens acquire and develop the knowledge and skill necessary for occupational tasks and for other social, cultural, intellectual and political roles that are intrinsic to a vibrant democratic society.

Inclusion
Inclusion implies a change from an 'individual change model' to a 'system change model' that emphasises that society has to change to accommodate diversity, i.e. to accommodate all people. This involves a paradigm shift away from the 'specialness' of people to the nature of society and its ability to respond to a wide range of individual differences.

Independence
Independence is a state of being whereby available and adequate support services, assistive devices and personal assistance to people with all disabilities at all levels enables people with disabilities to exercise choice, bear responsibility and participate fully in society.

Independent living
Independent living implies the ability of a person to live just like anyone elseãwith opportunities to make decisions that affect ones life, being able to pursue activities of ones own choosing. Independent living is having the right and opportunity to pursue a course of action. It is also having the right to failãand to learn from ones failures, just as non-disabled people do.

Mainstreaming
Mainstreaming focuses on the individual and small groups within the present system, without any necessary assumption that the system may be flawed and needs to be changed to make inclusion possible.

National Qualifications Framework (NQF)
(see ECD Policy Guidelines document)

People with speech disabilities
People with limited or no speech (non-speaking people) are people with normal hearing, but who are unable to express themselves due to a physical or intellectual impairment or are unable to express themselves through speech.

Personal assistance services (PAS)
Personal assistance services enable people with severe disabilities to exercise their rights to choice and dignity within their own homes.

Examples of PAS include readers for persons with visual disabilities; drivers for persons with visual or severe physical, intellectual disabilities, including people with epilepsy; interpreters/ facilitators for Deaf persons and non-speaking persons; personal care assistants for people with severe disabilities; service dogs for people with visual and severe disabilities; advocates for people with severe intellectual disabilities.

Rehabilitation
The UN Standard Rules define rehabilitation as: '. . . a process aimed at enabling persons with disabilities to reach and maintain their optimal physical, sensory, intellectual, psychiatric and/or social functional levels, thus providing them with the tools to change their lives towards a higher level of independence. Rehabilitation may include measures to provide and/or restore functions, or compensate for the loss or absence of a function or for a functional limitation. The rehabilitation process does not involve initial medical care. It includes a wide range of measures and activities from more basic and general rehabilitation to goal-oriented activities, for instance vocational rehabilitation.'

SA Qualifications Framework (SAQA)
(see ECD Policy)

Social services
Social services is a collective term for services within the health, welfare and education sectors.

Special Needs Education
Special Needs Education focuses on the education system and its ability to accommodate learner with different special needs (social model), and refers to the education of learners with a wide rang of educational needs of a specialised nature. It includes:

1. learners who require psychological and educational guidance, career and counselling service and life-skills;

2. learners with sensory, physical and neurological disabilities;

3. learners with varying degrees of mental disabilities;

4. learners with emotional and/or behavioural difficulties;

5. learners with severe developmental and health disturbances;

6. learners with speech and language difficulties;

7. disadvantaged learners (in poverty, suffering from chronic malnutrition, street children);

8. learners with general and specific learning disabilities;

9. gifted and talented learners.

Support services
Any device, mechanism or strategy that lessens or limits the handicap and enables people with disabilities to maintain their dignity and to live independent lives within their communities. It could include personal assistance services (PAS), assistive devices and specialised equipment.

Vocational rehabilitation
'That part of the continuous and co-ordinated process of rehabilitation which involves the provision of those vocational services, e.g. vocational guidance, vocational training and selective placement, designed to enable a disabled person to secure and retain suitable employment' (ILO Convention 159).

APPENDIX C

Glossary of Acronyms

Acronym	Full Title
ABET	Adult Basic Education and Training
ATM	Automated Teller Machine
CAAC	Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication
CANSA	The Cancer Association of South Africa
DEAFSA	The Deaf Federation of South Africa
DICAG	Disabled Children Action Group
DPI	Disabled People International
DPO	Disabled People's Organisation
DPSA	Disabled People South Africa
ECD	Early childhood development
ESS	Education Support Services
HRD	Human resource development
IBA	Independent Broadcasting Authority
ICCD	Interdepartmental Committee on Disability
ILO	International Labour Organisation
LHR	Lawyers for Human Rights
LRA	Labour Relations Act
NAPCOSA	National Paralympic Committee of South Africa
NCCD	National Co-ordinating Committee on Disability
NCESS	National Committee for Education Support Services
NCPD	The National Council for the Physically Disabled
NCSNET	National Commission on Special Needs in Education and Training
NEAP	National Environmental Accessibility Programme
NEDLAC	National Economic Development and Labour Council
NEPA	Ntsika Enterprise Promotion Agency
NLC	National Literacy Co-operative
NOBSA	The National Organisation of the Blind in South Africa
NPA	National Plan of Action for Children in South Africa
NQF	National Qualifications Framework
NTB	National Training Board
NTI	National Training Initiative
OTASA	Occupational Therapy Association of South Africa
PAS	Personal Assistance Service
QUASA	The Quadriplegic Association of South Africa
SABS	South African Bureau of Standards
SABWO	The South African Blind Worker Organisation of South Africa
SADI	South African Disability Institute
SAFCD	The South African Federal Council on Disability
SAFMH	The South African Federation for Mental Health
SAHRC	South African Human Rights Commission
SANCB	South African National Council for the Blind
SANEL	The South African National Epilepsy League
SAQA	South African Qualifications Authority
SMME	Small and Medium and Micro-Enterprises
TTESS	Task Team for Education Support Services (Now called NCESS)
TTY	Text telephone
VET	Vocational Education and Training
WHO	World Health Organisation

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