Margarette has a sensory disability. |
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A sensory disability affects your senses, like your:
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We call her ‘Margarette’ because she didn’twant us to use her real name. |
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Margarette’s sensory disability affects her hearing. |
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She wears hearing aids to help her with: |
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Margarette experienced disability discrimination at her job. |
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Disability discrimination is when you’re treated badly because: |
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Margarette told her boss how to make herjob better. |
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She told them there should be more: |
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her job. |
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She told them how people said bad things about her sensory disability. |
Margarette contacted Anti-Discrimination NSW (ADNSW). |
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ADNSW is an organisation that helps stop discrimination in NSW. |
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Discrimination is when you treat someone badly because of something about them they can’t change. |
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Margarette told ADNSW what: |
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ADNSW had a meeting with: |
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In the meeting Margarette: |
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Margarette’s boss will: |
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Margarette’s boss will buy new equipment to support Margarette at work. |
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Margarette will go back to work with bettertraining to help her learn new skills. |
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Everyone at Margarette’s job will have training about how to work with people with disability. |
This list explains what the bold words in this document mean. |
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Anti-Discrimination New South Wales (ADNSW) ADNSW is an organisation that helps stop discrimination in NSW. |
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Disability discrimination Disability discrimination is when you’re treated badly because:
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Discrimination Discrimination is when you treat someone badly because of something about them they can’t change. |
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Sensory disability A sensory disability affects your senses, like your:
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13 Dec 2021