Disability in Malaysia

This Malaysian Wants To Make KL Accessible For People With Disabilities IncluCity by NakSeni is an inclusive crowdsourced map for accessible, safe venues and spaces. (2023, Says)

Poor disabled-friendly facilities a bane for handicapped persons in Kedah. “I am unable to visit wet markets, grocery stores, hospitals, clinics, shops, restaurants, cafés, books stores and ATMs, when I'm in my wheelchair.” (2023, New Straits Times)

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Sen. Ras Adiba Radzi disability-rights advocate honored in Washington. (2023, BenarNews)

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Sign Languages

Maybank explores language of inclusivity featuring the deaf community, this Chinese New Year (Feb, Marketing-Interactive)

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Braille

English-BM braille dictionary in the works “The country’s first ever English-Bahasa Malaysia braille dictionary is in the pipeline.” (2023, The Star)

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Financial Inclusion

Ras Adiba calls for introduction of more inclusive financial system for persons with disabilities. (2022, Malay Mail)

New initiative to support financial education of blind people. (2022, Disability Insider)

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Social Protection

Dubious disabilities, duping doctors “Three doctors and a woman were among 33 people remanded yesterday for falsifying Socso disability claims amounting to RM2.1mil [483,000 USD] since 2017.” (Sep, The Star)

How an OKU card [disability card] benefits persons with disabilities (2022, Free Malaysia Today)

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Transition from Education to Employment in Malaysia: Situational Analysis of Youth with Disabilities (Apr, Fora Education)

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Disabled activist Anthony Thanasayan passes away aged 63. (2023, The Star) Also celebrated on the Debrief.

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Finally, after 5 months, police officer who assaulted deaf driver to be charged. “It comes after protests from the disabled community and rights groups over the long delay in bringing charges despite video evidence.” (Nov, Malaysia Now)

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Profile of Debrief illustrator KA Tan "Painting makes me reflect and reflect. When society is progressing, what should life be like and what is its meaning? Are those illusions important to life?" (In Chinese, 2023, Penang China Press)

A day in the life of people with visual impairments. (2023, Malaysia Now)

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Podcast discussion on the persons with disabilities act: “a toothless tiger”. (No transcript, 2023, BFM)

Nothing about Us without Us “Malaysia has a long-standing practice of making policy decisions and planning programmes for persons with disabilities (OKU) and care partners – without engaging us.” (2022, FMT)

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Opinions of the disability community a survey of 700 disabled people regarding factors that influence their voting behaviour and disability issues that are important to them. Key priorities identified were employment, education, and enforcing rights. (2022, Make the Right Real) See coverage on Free Malaysia Today.

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