Legal Capacity: Implications for People with Communication Disabilities
Barriers:
- Inaccurate assumptions that people who have communication disabilities have diminished capacity
- Insufficient communication supports may prevent a person from demonstrating their capacity
- People communicate with family or others who accompany the person, rather than communicating directly with the person with a disability
Result of Barriers:
- Often a person is denied their exercise of legal capacity and someone else makes decisions for them
Cause:
- Some barriers result from the law itself, some result from behaviour/attitudes and some are a mix of factors
Impact:
- People may be prevented from making their own decisions, resulting in:
- Little or no control over aspects of their life; inability to lead the life they want; frustration, powerlessness and mental health issues
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