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Right of disabled person under persons with Disabilities Act 2008: A case study in the state of Perlis

Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) have equal rights like other normal people.Therefore, this study was carried out to identify the rights of PWDs under the Persons with Disabilities Act 2008 and its practice in the state of Perlis.Respondent for this research was ten people with disabilities who were...

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Main Authors: Jaafar, Hirwan Jasbir, Abdul Wahab, Harlida, Omar, Hamiza
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2013
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Online Access:http://repo.uum.edu.my/12515/1/Right.pdf
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spelling my.uum.repo.125152014-11-03T04:08:40Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/12515/ Right of disabled person under persons with Disabilities Act 2008: A case study in the state of Perlis Jaafar, Hirwan Jasbir Abdul Wahab, Harlida Omar, Hamiza K Law (General) Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) have equal rights like other normal people.Therefore, this study was carried out to identify the rights of PWDs under the Persons with Disabilities Act 2008 and its practice in the state of Perlis.Respondent for this research was ten people with disabilities who were selected through purposive sampling.Data were collected through interviews conducted with them.The results found that most of respondents are not aware of the existence of their rights under the Persons with Disabilities Act 2008.Besides that all the respondents agreed that these rights are not fully implemented in Perlis.Between the recommendations made by the respondents in this study is an ongoing effort to increase awareness and understanding throughout the community about the challenges they face and their needs.In addition, an organization which responsible for PWDs is required for the purpose of expressing an impeller their needs to the government to take actions that can help facilitate them to live as a normal person. 2013-07-07 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://repo.uum.edu.my/12515/1/Right.pdf Jaafar, Hirwan Jasbir and Abdul Wahab, Harlida and Omar, Hamiza (2013) Right of disabled person under persons with Disabilities Act 2008: A case study in the state of Perlis. In: International Conference on Business and Information (BAI2013), July 07-09, 2013, Bali, Indonesia. (Unpublished) http://ibac-conference.org/BAI2013/
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Jaafar, Hirwan Jasbir
Abdul Wahab, Harlida
Omar, Hamiza
Right of disabled person under persons with Disabilities Act 2008: A case study in the state of Perlis
description Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) have equal rights like other normal people.Therefore, this study was carried out to identify the rights of PWDs under the Persons with Disabilities Act 2008 and its practice in the state of Perlis.Respondent for this research was ten people with disabilities who were selected through purposive sampling.Data were collected through interviews conducted with them.The results found that most of respondents are not aware of the existence of their rights under the Persons with Disabilities Act 2008.Besides that all the respondents agreed that these rights are not fully implemented in Perlis.Between the recommendations made by the respondents in this study is an ongoing effort to increase awareness and understanding throughout the community about the challenges they face and their needs.In addition, an organization which responsible for PWDs is required for the purpose of expressing an impeller their needs to the government to take actions that can help facilitate them to live as a normal person.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Jaafar, Hirwan Jasbir
Abdul Wahab, Harlida
Omar, Hamiza
author_facet Jaafar, Hirwan Jasbir
Abdul Wahab, Harlida
Omar, Hamiza
author_sort Jaafar, Hirwan Jasbir
title Right of disabled person under persons with Disabilities Act 2008: A case study in the state of Perlis
title_short Right of disabled person under persons with Disabilities Act 2008: A case study in the state of Perlis
title_full Right of disabled person under persons with Disabilities Act 2008: A case study in the state of Perlis
title_fullStr Right of disabled person under persons with Disabilities Act 2008: A case study in the state of Perlis
title_full_unstemmed Right of disabled person under persons with Disabilities Act 2008: A case study in the state of Perlis
title_sort right of disabled person under persons with disabilities act 2008: a case study in the state of perlis
publishDate 2013
url http://repo.uum.edu.my/12515/1/Right.pdf
http://repo.uum.edu.my/12515/
http://ibac-conference.org/BAI2013/
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