Disability in Chile

Housing

The homes of families of people with disabilities (Oct, Latercera)

Sign Languages

In drafting of the new constitution sign-language has been recognised as an official language (2022, UN Special Envoy on Twitter)

TV and Film

Cromosoma 21: the Chilean series that is making impact on Netflix (In Spanish, Feb, Yo También)

Research

Florencia Herrera, director of Núcleo Disca promoting research with disabled people. (Apr, Universidad Diego Portales)

Pudahuel applies tool for inclusion of persons with disabilities. The municipality used a disaster resilience scorecard's criteria on disability inclusion. (May, Making Cities Resilient)

Multidimensional Measures and the Extra Costs of Disability: How Are They Related? Exploring whether multidimensional poverty measures can be used to study the extra costs of disability. (Jan, IJERPH)

How businesses manage law 21.015 on inclusion of disabled people in the labour market. (2022, Azarbe)

Deaf Role Model of the Month: Pamela Molina (Jan, Deaf Unity)

Association of the Blind demands that the government take responsibility for the death of the person who fell onto the metro track. (In Spanish, 2022, ElMostrador)

Disability in the Chilean constitutional process “Both for substantive and procedural reasons, the constitutional process led by the Constitutional Convention offers solid ground to advance the rights of persons with disabilities as a constitutional issue.” (Apr, Disability & Society)

Government apologizes to woman for forced sterilization. “Doctors performed procedure in 2002 without consent while Francisca was under anesthesia because she was HIV positive” (2022, the Guardian)

More awareness, inclusion and infrastructure, the early legacy of Santiago 2023. “Chilean Para athletes expressed they have felt a positive change in their social lives and sporting careers because of the Parapan American Games in their country” (Nov, International Paralympic Committee)