Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century

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Only those disabled people who are defined as disabled in accordance with section 6 of the Act, and the associated Schedules and regulations made under that section, will be entitled to the protection that the Act provides to disabled people.

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty

If the substantial adverse effects are likely to recur, they are to be treated as if they were continuing. Progressive (for example, muscular dystrophy), static (for example, limb loss), or intermittent (for example, some forms of multiple sclerosis external icon ). A man has an operation to remove the colon because of progressing and uncontrollable ulcerative colitis.The Act provides for a person with one of the progressive conditions of cancer, HIV and multiple sclerosis to be a disabled person from the point at which they have that condition, so effectively from diagnosis. See also paragraph C11, regarding medical or other treatment that permanently reduces or removes the effects of an impairment. It is one grounding stone on the path to true liberation and acceptance for human beings in all their glorious variations.

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty

Your impairment is considered a disability under the Equality Act if it makes it harder for you to do everyday activities. The Act provides that, where an impairment is subject to treatment or correction, the impairment is to be treated as having a substantial adverse effect if, but for the treatment or correction, the impairment is likely to have that effect. The time taken by a person with an impairment to carry out a normal day-to-day activity should be considered when assessing whether the effect of that impairment is substantial. Her obesity in itself is not an impairment, but it causes breathing and mobility difficulties which substantially adversely affect her ability to walk.Those using this Guidance for the first time should read it all, as each part of the Guidance builds upon the part(s) preceding it.