Television still falls far behind film in depicting characters with disabilities, according to a new study released on Wednesday by Nielsen and the nonprofit org RespectAbility. As an encouraging s…
. As an encouraging sign, the report found that content featuring depictions of disability rose more than 175% over the past decade — but that the majority of those roles were played by performers without those disabilities.
A survey attached to the study also found that audiences with disabilities more often found problems with those portrayals. Specifically, the survey found that people with a disability are 8% more likely than people without a disability to say TV portrayal is inaccurate, and 7% more likely than people without a disability to say there is not enough content featuring people from their identity group.
But RespectAbility, which focuses on promoting more accurate and diverse portrayals of people with disabilities, says the industry still has much work to do.
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