Danish Disability Policy - Equal Opportunities Through Dialogue
To an outsider it can be very difficult to form an impression of how a country has chosen to organise and administer a given political sphere. This also applies to Danish disability policy. If you are not actually brought up with the system it can be very difficult to understand the background and the way things work. Language difficulties, different cultural, organisational and administrative frames of reference are some of the obstacles to be overcome.
With this publication we try to address some of these obstacles. We will provide a survey of the fundamental principles of Danish disability policy, and we will try to give an overall description of the way in which the disability policy manifests itself in law and in practice in all sectors of society.
| Section | Page |
|---|---|
| PREFACE | 5 |
| SECTION I. DANISH DISABILITY POLICY | 6 |
| The basis of Danish disability policy | 6 |
| The Danish welfare society | 6 |
| From placement in State-run institutions to equal treatment the development in disability policy | 7 |
| Principles and objectives of disability policy | 9 |
| The players in disability policy | 10 |
| Accessibility | 14 |
| Accessibility to buildings, housing and physical environments | 15 |
| Access to information and communication | 15 |
| Education | 16 |
| The Danish education system | 19 |
| Education and support | 22 |
| Work and social security | 24 |
| The security schemes of the labour market | 24 |
| Possibilities of compensation for disabled people in employment | 25 |
| Early retirement pension | 29 |
| Sheltered employment | 31 |
| Supportive measures (the social area) | 32 |
| Aids and consumer goods | 32 |
| Personal help and support | 33 |
| Extra costs caused by a disability | 34 |
| Family life and personal integrity | 36 |
| Parents with disabilities | 36 |
| Children and young persons with disabilities | 36 |
| Adoption and artificial insemination | 37 |
| Personal integrity | 38 |
| Legal capacity and self-determination | 38 |
| Housing and other types of accommodation | 40 |
| Health | 42 |
| The primary health care service | 42 |
| The hospital service | 44 |
| Services for mentally ill persons | 45 |
| Home nursing | 45 |
| Rehabilitation | 46 |
| Medicine and pharmacies | 46 |
| Transport | 47 |
| Parliamentary resolution on traffic and accessibility | 47 |
| Individual transport scheme | 48 |
| Subsidies for taxi transport | 48 |
| Cars for persons with disabilities (�disability cars�) | 48 |
| Driver�s licence | 49 |
| Parking card | 49 |
| Culture | 50 |
| The Danish Ministry of Culture�s action plan | 50 |
| Libraries | 50 |
| Subtitling of television broadcasts | 51 |
| Films | 51 |
| Appendix 1 | 52 |
| Addresses | 53 |
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