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Being Inclusive: Understanding Diversity and Strategies for Inclusion

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Being inclusive is a very broad term. To be inclusive we need to understand diversity. In this article, we will understand diversity and inclusion and we will see how these two topics are important, interconnected, and interdependent. In this picture all the people are of different background: one person has down’s syndrome, one has an intellectual impairment, and two persons are speech and hearing impaired.  Pic courtesy: Muskaan-PAEPID The diversity around us impacts us in many ways. Most of the time we are unaware of it. We live in a diverse world but we hardly acknowledge and understand it. We need to think of the people who are different in any way. There are at least 34 types of diverse groups/people that are listed in many definitions. All these diverse groups do have subcategories within them. For example: if we look at disability, In India 21 types of disability are listed. Disability is the most difficult diversity to work with because it has so many types and combi...