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Slowly Enabling The Disabled, Marion Lloyd

Marion Lloyd

Access to higher education for disabled students is far from a right in Latin America, although some countries, particularly Brazil, are making an effort to improve access and conditions for the disabled. Discrimination starts early, at the elementary-school level. Students are either isolated in special schools, which rarely go beyond the eighth grade, or forced to compete in regular schools, without any tools to help them overcome their disabilities. A majority drop out before high school.