ELE PEC - Unit 1.3: RA 9442

RA 9442

It is an act amending Republic Act No. 7277, otherwise known as the “Magna Carta for Disabled Persons, and for Other Purposes”

RA 7277 Magna Carta for Disabled Persons

It is an Act Providing for the Rehabilitation, Self-Development and Self-Reliance of Disabled Person and Their Integration into the Mainstream of Society and for Other Purposes

Corazon C. Aquino

Who is the President of the Philippines that approved the RA 7277?

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Who is the President of the Philippines that approved the RA 9442?

RA 9442

It prohibits all acts resulting to the vilifications including derogatory remarks against PWD, granting of incentives to those caring for and living with PWD, and distributing penalties to those rightful to it.

Persons with Disabilities

_______ include those who have long-term physical, mental, intellectual or sensory impairments which in interaction with various barriers may hinder their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others.

Psychosocial

It refers to any type of disability acquired through behavioral, cognitive, emotional, or social impairment that limits one or more activities necessary to effective emotional transactions and other civilizing processes or activities in daily living, such as but not limited to deviancy or anti-social behavior

Mental/Intellectual

It is a type of disability that results from organic brain syndrome and/or mental illness

Deaf or Hard of Hearing

It is a type of disability that refers to people with hearing loss, implies little or no hearing/ranging from mild to severe.

Hearing loss

It is also known as hearing impairment that means that the complete or partial loss of the ability to hear from one or both ears with 26 dB or greater hearing threshold, averaged to frequencies’ 0.5, 1, 2, 4 kilohertz.

Intellectual Disability

It is a type of disability that significantly reduces the ability to understand new or complex information and to learn and apply new skills

Cancer

It refers to a genetic term for a large group of diseases that can affect any part of the body

Malignant Tumors

Other terms used for cancers are neoplasms and _______

Cancer

One defining feature of cancer is the rapid creation of abnormal cells that grow beyond their usual boundaries, and which can then invade adjoining parts of the body and spread to other organs

Rare Disease

It refers to disorders such as inherited metabolic disorders and other diseases with similar rare occurrence as recognizes by the DOH upon recommendation of the NIH but excluding catastrophic forms of more frequently occurring diseases

RA 11215

The republic act referring to Cancer is _______

RA 10747

The republic act referring to Rare Diseases is _______

Visual Disability

A person with ________ (Impairment) is one who has impairment of visual functioning even after treatment and/or standard refractive correction, and has visual acuity in the better eye of less than (6/18 for low vision and 3/60 for blind), or a visual field of less than 10 degrees from the point of fixation

Learning Disability

It refers to a person who, although normal in sensory, emotional and intellectual abilities, exhibit disorders in perception, listening, thinking, reading, writing, spelling, and arithmetic

Physical Disability

It refers to the restriction of ability due to any physical impairment that affects a person’s mobility, function, endurance, or stamina to sustain prolonged physical ability, dexterity to perform tasks skillfully and quality of life

Physical Disability

Its causes may be hereditary or acquired from trauma, infection, surgical or medical condition and include the following disorders:

• Musculoskeletal or Orthopedic Disorders

• Neurological Disorders

• Cardiopulmonary Disorders

• Pediatric and Congenital Disorders

Speech and Language Impairment

It refers to one or more speech/language disorders of voice, articulation, rhythm, and/or the receptive and expressive processes of language

Purchase of Medicines

One of the benefits of a PWD citizen is at least twenty percent (20%) discount for the _________ in all drugstores for the exclusive use or enjoyment of persons with disability

Related Medical Services

One of the benefits of a PWD citizen is at least twenty percent (20%) discount on medical and dental services including diagnostic and laboratory fees such as, but not limited to, x-rays, computerized tomography scans and blood tests, in all government facilities, and professional fees of attending doctors in all private hospitals and medical facilities, in accordance with the rules and regulations to be issued by the DOH, in coordination with the PHILHEALTH.

Educational Assistance

One of the benefits of PWD are _______, for them to pursue primary, secondary, tertiary, post-tertiary, as well as vocational or technical education, in both public and private schools, through the provision of scholarships, grants, financial aids, subsides and other incentives to qualified persons with disability, including support for books, learning material, and uniform allowance to the extent feasible: Provided, That persons with disability shall meet minimum admission requirements;

Groceries

Another benefit of people with disability is the discounted ________ prices and other daily needs like vegetables, meat, fish, and other agriculturally based products for daily consumption

True

The RA 9442 is a provision of express lane for PWD in commercial and government establishments, giving priority to the persons with disability, elderly, and pregnant Filipino Citizens

[True or False]

True

PWD shall be treated as dependents

[True or False]

National Internal Revenue Code

Individual taxpayers caring for PWD shall be accorded the privileges granted by the ________ insofar as having dependents

False

Individuals or NGOs establishing homes, residential communities or retirement villages for PWDs cannot allow:

1. Realty tax holidays for the first 5 years of operation

2. Priority in building and/or maintenance of provincial or municipal roads leading to the homes, residential community or retirement village

[True or False]

Deliverance from Public Ridicule

It is a prohibition on actions of making fun or contemptuous imitating or making mockery of persons with disability whether in writing, or in words, or in action due to their impariment/s

Deliverance from Vilification

Where this form shall be defined as:

1. The utterance of slanderous and abusive statements against a person with disability; and/or

2. An activity in public which incites hatred towards, serious contempt for, or severe ridicule of persons with disability