You are Different, Everyone is Different

Attitudes towards people with disabilities have changed a lot over the last centuries and decades, but nowadays people's attitude still need some improvement. As special education and social pedagogue students, we have found that today's society is still quite closed towards people with disabilities and their perceptions are mostly negative. In our environment we have also discovered negative attitudes which increases the isolation of people with disabilities. As a result, the majority of atypically developing people are marginalized in society, both in education and work. This project gives us the opportunity to bring the world of people with disabilities closer to the everyday life of the others and to develop a more positive attitude. Our aim is to make them think about disability and challenges are coming with it. We hope that the negative images will fade, new approaches will emerge and our presentations will lead to elimination of the stereotypes among the target groups.

The project was primarily intended to make young people aware of the types of disability and to change their attitudes towards persons with disabilities, with a special regard to people with intellectual disabilities. By developing more positive attitudes, we wanted to create a more solitary society in Hungary. We believe we are going to have a broader and long term impact to the society by developing the attitudes of children.

Activities and Outputs

Team members of Merici group