Disability is not a character trait
The representation of disability in film and television: it’s time to stop the stereotypes.
A 2011 report from the World Health Organization found that 15% of the global population lives with some form of disability.
That’s a pretty sizable chunk, and one that should be hard to ignore.
Yet, for the most part, this is what Britain’s mainstream media continues to do.
In 2017, the Office of Communications (Ofcom) revealed that a mere three percent of employees at the UK’s five main broadcasters