Disability Capabilities is an empowerment and participation advocacy entity.
We research and write on functional capability enhancement.
For every disability in a person, there are tens of capabilities.
Every disability is an opportunity.
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Welcome to Disability Capabilities.
Disability rights and inclusion have come a long way in the past decades. However, for the most part, disability rights were granted from a position of pity, which reinforced stereotypes of weaknesses among disabled and neurodivergent persons[1]. As a matter of fact, disability rights are often eroded because of
Disability is conceptualized in many contexts and frameworks. One of the most inspiring and empowering approaches of handling disability in a society is the Capability Approach (CA). This asserts that disability must be handled constructively by critiquing the barriers people with disabilities face in achieving their goals with the competencies
Disability in general, causes people to interpret and understand the world in ways different from the majority of people around them. That is only logical because they encounter a set of experiences that causes them to develop distinct lenses of perceiving, understanding, and engaging with the world. Neurodiversity is fundamentally
Highly gifted persons are people with an IQ of 145 and above[1]. Those with an IQ of over 180 are considered “Profoundly Gifted”[2]. At that level, it is difficult for people around such a person to understand and appreciate their views on things. As such, profoundly gifted persons