Guest Editor’s Note

Abstract

This Special Issue of Intellectual Discourse contains seven articles
on the theme of disability studies. The goal of the Special Issue is
to create awareness of research studies on the area of disability.
The inclusion of persons with disabilities in various areas such as
education, healthcare, access to buildings and information meets the
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which are
fundamental to the focus of the articles. The scope of the theme is wide
as it encompasses several perspectives namely the extra costs of having
a disability, advertisements and their depiction of inclusion and persons
with disabilities, the inclusiveness of Malaysian urban cities, parenting
children with hearing impairment, an examination of stress in parents of
children with autism, the costs of different types of caregivers and the
design of a speech delay screening mobile application for Malaysian
parents.