Disability in Uruguay

[1] After the civil war, an influx of physicians from England and France helped develop more technical knowledge of psychiatry.

[3] Also in the late 1980s, Uruguay created a proposal for bilingual education for Deaf children which was intended to serve as a model for other countries.

[9] This is in contrast to the country's initial medicalized basis for instituting policy for people with disabilities.

[11] Since around 2005, when Frente Ampilo (FA) took control of the government, special attention has been paid to the role of unpaid caregivers in Uruguay.

[13] In the 1980s, another group began to work with ASUR, the Deaf People's Research and Development Centre (Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo para la Persona Sorda CINDE), and advocated for civil rights for the Deaf community.

[14] Movimiento Estamos Tod@s En Acción (META) is an international group for young people with disabilities.

18,651 which protects their rights to access health care, education and which provides benefits and financial help as needed.

19,353) passed in November 2015 makes caregiving an act that all children, the elderly and people with disabilities have the right to access.

[4] The 2008 General Education Law refers to the use of "mother tongues" in article 40 and pushes towards a more bilingual method of instruction including sign language.

[3] Parking spaces reserved for people with disabilities is only available in areas for shopping, hospitals and government buildings.

[25] In 2013, the National Centre for Technical and Technological Assistance was created to provide aid to people with disabilities.

[5] Uruguay has also mandated that all television channels needed to have interpreters for other types of programs and complete the project in 2020.

[22] Since 2015, Uruguay has been hosting an Inclusive Surf Festival to raise awareness about human rights for people with disabilities.

[citation needed] The festival, held at Brava Beach in Montevideo, has helped raise money and bring disability rights activists in Uruguay together.