Disability is not Inability

:: ADJUSTMENTS

An adjustment is a deliberate change in the architecture of a service/facility to enable access by person with a limitation that may otherwise significantly deny functional access.

The government and society encourages voluntary adjustments and the government even gives incentives for services and facilities to be adjusted to enable access by persons with various limitations.

Adjustments come in various shapes and categories. Adjustments are mainly categoriesed according to disability needs and according to facility or service.

There are two types of adjustments:

a) Voluntary Adjustments and b) ordered adjustments.

A voluntary adjustment is like the sarova panafric one and can be induced either by and opportunity/incentive or an event. The current push is for adjustment orders to be voluntary. The government and disability community also gives incentives to various service providers or

The NCPWD has the power to order an adjustment to make a facility or service disability friendly. Such an order is structured and is also negotiative with opportunites for a grieved party to represent its case and appeal should they feel discriminated upon.

The implementation of the provision is still in limbo but the section related to adjustment orders is quite clear and specific. The provision also assumes that there is no need for an adjustment order againt a government institution since the government it is assumed will always and ONLY adjust on a voluntary basis and subject to availability of resources.

There are various inducements to encourage voluntary adjustments provided both by the government and the disability sector private or civil society.

DISABILITYKENYA.