... the process which enables people who have a disability to gain power, authority and influence over others, institutions and society. (The Empowerment Process 1998). It is important not to get empowerment and advocacy mixed up advocacy is when somebody is acting on behalf of a particular person to help influence the decisions of another. (Patients Power and Politics 2000). Discrimination against disabled people in our society is widespread everyone can discriminate against a person who has a disability sometimes this can be done without even knowing it. Disabled people hold the same prejudices towards other disabled people as those who do not have a disability according to research from the City University in London. (Duckworth, S 2007 ). They carried out a study which is called the disabled people's attitudes towards other impairment groups. The findings showed that people who had a disability do not always wish to be associated ...

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