Penyandang Disabilitas Di Indonesia: Perkembangan Istilah Dan Definisi

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ABSTRAK R iset menunjukkan \xa0k e te rkaitan erat \xa0antara \xa0pemahaman publik tentang disabilitas dan penyandang disabilitas dengan perilaku diskriminatif yang mereka alami dalam kehidupan sehari-hari.\xa0 Pemahaman masyarakat di dunia, termasuk \xa0Indonesia , tentang\xa0 penyandang disabilitas \xa0masih cenderung negatif. Pemahaman negatif itu karena masyarakat\xa0 umumnya mendefinisikan dan memperlakukan penyandang disabilitas \xa0ber dasar kan pada pola pikir yang didominasi oleh konsep kenormalan yang berimplikasi pada stigmatisasi dan diskriminasi terhadap para penyandang disabilitas.\xa0 Hal itu, termasuk\xa0 di Indonesia terutama disebabkan masih terbatasnya diseminasi informasi dan edukasi resmi dari pemerintahan atau otoritas terkait serta hasil kajian ilmiah tentang disabilitas dan penyandang disabilitas. Artikel ini bertujuan mendeskripsikan kajian literatur terkait pemahaman tentang disabilitas dan penyandang disabilitas. Diharapkan kajian ini dapat\xa0 berkontribusi\xa0 mengatasi kesenjangan informasi dan edukasi tentang disabilitas dan penyandang disabilitas, serta memberi pemahaman yang tepat dan perilaku yang lebih baik serta menghargai hak asasi para penyandang disabilitas di Indonesia. Dengan demikian \xa0termasuk berkontribusi pula pada\xa0 \xa0perlindungan dan kesejahteraan sosial mereka. KATA KUNCI: disabilitas, penyandang disabilitas,\xa0 stigma , diskriminasi, ABSTRACT Research reveal that public understanding of disability and persons with disabilities closely related with disciminative behaviour that they experience in their everyday lives. Understanding of society around the world, including Indonesian, mostly are negative disability awareness . This negative awareness due to public tend to define, or understand, and treat person with disability nowadays mostly with perspectives dominated by normality’s concept, that implicated to stigmatisation and discrimination towards persons with disabilities . This happened in the world, including Indonesia , caused by lack of dissemination of information and education officially from government or authorithies, and also from scientific research. This a r ticle aims to describe t he review of the literature about understandings of disability and persons with disabilites. It is expected that this article would contribute to ov ercome a lack of information and education about disabilities and persons with disabilities, and provide appropriate understanding and behaviour that respecting the rights of Indonesian people with disabilities. Accordingly, this contribute \xa0protection and social welfare for them will realize closer.\xa0\xa0 KEY WORDS: disability, pe rson/pe ople with disability, \xa0discrimination,