**10. Recommendations**

16 Learning Disabilities

8.9% 9.7%

19.5% 20.5%

EU27 million 2010

53.2%

2009

 49.2% 

Apart from the public assistance and the Active Labour Market Policies (ALMP) which are provided by EU27 to support employed persons with disabilities, at a percentage of 16.3% (Euro 7.233 million) in 2006 ( Eurostat database, 2010) a basic factor which reduces the unemployment rates of persons with disabilities is the level of education.The lower the level

Work status Lower Level Medium Level Higher Level

The increased economic crisis in our era has dramatic influence in all sectors. Indicators reveal that whereas the world population will increase in the next 20 to 40 years by 2.593 million the increase of population in the EU27 countries is minimal. In parallel, the rates of unemployment are considerably disproportionate between disabled and non-disabled persons. There is, also, a quite unbalanced relationship between unemployed persons graduates of lower and upper secondary education and tertiary education. The rate of unemployed persons of lower secondary level raised from 2007 to 2009 by 47%, of upper

The problems identified are related to an unbalanced relationship between unemployed disabled and non-disabled persons, educational attendance and social security expenditure. Yet, the most important problem is the terminology used to describe persons with disabilities which is linguistically, psychologically and socially inappropriate. As a result, prevalence data are highly disputed preventing the implementation of the required measures and the effective communication between professionals, parents and disabled persons. In the sector of learning disabilities, which should be changed to learning impairments to avoid confusion between the general term and one of the types of learning impairments, the use of terms which are not clearly expressed should be given adequate

Activities 31.6% 56.3% 69.7% Employment 25.3% 48.5% 61.7% Unemployed 19.9% 13.3% 11.4%

Table 11. Non-disabled VS disabled unemployed youth, source Eurostat.

Table 12. Educational level and unemployment, source Eurostat, 2010)

of education the higher the rate of unemployment (Table 12).

secondary level by 25% and of tertiary level by 32%

Total population 502.8 501.00

Status EU27 million

Unemployed non-disabled

Unemployed Youth disabled

Youth non-disabled

**9. Conclusion** 

The situation requires immediate consideration and measurements in a multi-dimensional setting. The unemployment rates of persons with disabilities must decrease. It is necessary that these persons are included in the normal social setting as much as possible in order to contribute to the efforts of economic recovery which, also, will result to the reduction of public expenditure on supporting projects..

The problem of the use of disputable terms in describing and/or classifying persons with disabilities is extremely important, mainly in the sector of learning impairments, since situations like **slow learners, learners with difficulties, learners with disorders and learners with disabilities,** though seemingly identical they are characterized by substantial differences among them, which necessitate appropriate measures for dealing with them..

The terms of classification should be substituted by the appropriate ones. The provisions established by UNO (2006) and other organizations should be followed

Though a number of disabled persons are employed, barriers to employment should be prevented.

The social model of disability, implemented in UK should be considered. Under this model, persons with intellectual or psychological variations are not always considered to be disabled.
