People with Different Abilities and Disaster—Lessons Learned from Jogjakarta, Post-earthquake 2006–2016

Abstract

Disability in many countries is stigmatized. The stigma causes people with disabilities to not appear in public areas or identify themselves as “disabled,” a definition which judges them as not as able or as good as other people. Struggling to remove the stigma can begin with replacing the term “disability” with the non-discriminatory one of “different ability”. People with disability have “ability.”