What is ableism?

Definitions of ableism are complex and layered:

• Attitudes, actions, and/or circumstances that devalue people because they are disabled or perceived as having a disability.

• Intentional or unintentional discrimination or oppression of disabled individual.

• Anything that positions a person without a disability over a person with a disability, solely based on disability or differences in ability.

• Attitudes, actions, or systems that consider a person with a disability as inferior.