How are the handicapped treated in Germany?

Question

Please use examples/details
dont just say
good, or equally
Give one of the laws that helps them
How much rights do they have?
etc
Thnx

Answer 1

I am an American who teaches in overseas schools so I can only speak about what I know of the school systems here in Germany. Basically any child who isn't "normal" by German standards is sent to a SONDERSCHULE which literally means special school. All kids there are lumped together. You could be blind and brillian but you'll go to school with kids with Down Syndrome or Autism or severe behavior problems. NOt mush is expected of sonderschule students. The schools try to give them the very basics but with so many varying disabilities and no differentiation nobody gets a whole lot out of it.

There are handicap parking parking spots here, but there aren't as many laws about making work locations handicap accessible. SOme offices are located in historical rbuilding that have been standing for 500 years. NObody is going to gut the place to put in an elevataro just so someone with a wheelchair can work there. They'll just tell you to find somewhere else to work.

People with disabilities are generally less visible int his culture. THere are facilities where many of them live and the system is arrnaged so they arent out and about as much as in the US.

Anyway those are my observations based on living here for 8 years. None of this is meant as a statement of fact.

Answer 2

gd question.. i went to germany once and i didnt see anything unusual..