People With Disability Discrimination

Discrimination is a part of life for many people in minorities. There is one minority that extends across age, gender and race, this minority consists of people with disabilities. The minority of people with disabilities can be entered at any age. Also, disability is one of a few minorities that can be hidden from other people. Because not all disabilities are visible the discrimination people with disabilities face may be greater than discrimination against other people. There is legislation that makes it illegal to discriminate against people with disabilities. However, despite legislation people with disabilities still face discrimination in various parts of their lives. The textbook defines discrimination as behavior directed against persons

In addition, the psychology trainees usually depend on informal accommodation. The article stated that accommodation offices are not always sufficient to meet the needs of students with disabilities (Lund et al. 2014). Diversity is an important part of psychology. Disabilities are prevalent among both psychologists and graduate psychology students. Graduate students are not always aware of potential mentors with disabilities while in school. Approximately six to eight percent of psychology internship applicants have at least one disability (Lund et al. 2014). Accommodations for psychology graduate students has received little attention in the literature (Lund et al. 2014). One form of disability discrimination that occurs when the student discloses the fact that they have a disability is the reaction of the faculty reacted in either a mixed or negative way a third of the time. In some cases the psychology students were pressured to

2014). Participants were recruited through listerservs. There is the potential that some of the participants knew of the disability status of the researchers. If an individual had a disability and were enrolled or planned to enroll in a doctoral program in psychology by the next year were allowed to participate. The survey consisted of 24 multiple choice questions, followed by 6 open-ended questions. The categories of questions in the survey were: demographics, training, disability characteristics, impact of disability, disability-related support, and open-ended (Lund et al. 2014). Fifty-six people who completed the survey said they have or are working toward a professional psychology degree. Slightly under three quarters of the sample was female. Fifty-four of the participants were white. Almost a third of participants said they had multiple disabilities. The most commonly endorsed category was physical or orthopedic (Lund et al. 2014)befor. Most of the participants acquired or were diagnosed before adulthood. The majority of participants had received a doctorate (Lund et al. 2014). Fourty-one of the participants said they had acquired their disability before going to graduate school (Lund et al. 2014). Of these 41 participants 39 answered a question about if their disability influenced the choice of college to attend (Lund et al. 2014). Half said that their disability influenced their choice of school.