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but they can normalize to function, learn and work, show their knowledge and skills despite
various limitations. However, employers and employees have many prejudices against people
with disabilities and disqualify them in the first place for fear of poorly performed duties and
the need for help or additional financial outlay.

There are also types of disabilities such as:

• mental disability,

• intellectual disability,

• physical disability.

However, we will focus on the group of people with physical disabilities, such as:

• people in wheelchairs,

• people with visual impairments,

• blind,

• deaf,

• etc.

In addition to their disability, such people face discrimination and lack of willingness to help
from others. Very often they have restrictions on their choice of profession (they cannot always
do what they love), they struggle with inadequate workplaces for disabled people or a lack of
adapted infrastructure in buildings. People with disabilities sometimes also have limited access
to education, making it more difficult for them to find a job in a particular profession in the
future.

Employers are also afraid to employ people with disabilities because they have additional
rights, such as in the form of shorter working hours, the possibility of additional leave for
health reasons, etc. However, these laws are different in different countries.

People with disabilities really have to face many difficulties. From those created in their heads
(barriers to their physical limitations resulting in fear and lack of self-confidence, their skills),
through limitations to mobility or communication difficulties, to barriers created by other
people in the form of closure and discrimination, depriving them of the chance to function
normally.

Project 2019-1-BG01-KA204_062299
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