Os critérios de avaliação da deficiência à luz da Lei Brasileira de Inclusão

Abstract

Over the years, the discussion about disability and people with disabilities has gained prominence on the national and international scene. Public policies were implemented with the aim of protecting human rights. The concept of people with disabilities has evolved and gained a new perspective from the UN Convention in 2008. In 2015, Brazil approved Law No. 13,146, known as the Brazilian Law of Inclusion - LBI, which consolidated the new concept in national regulations, giving rise to a new form of assessment of disability, based on the biopsychosocial model. This paper aims to present the evolution of the concept of people with disabilities over time and to point out the current criteria for assessing disability in the light of LBI, demonstrating the overcoming of the medical model and the indispensability of a multidisciplinary approach, enabling a better understanding the complex universe of disabilities and people in their diversity, especially for the development and execution of affirmative policies and for the exercise of rights in the most diverse sectors and areas.