Adults at risk: An adult at risk is a person who has needs for care and/or support, (whether they are receiving services for those needs or not) and is experiencing (or is at risk of) family violence, sexual violence, or any form of abuse, neglect and harm, and, because of their needs for care and/or support, is unable to protect themself against the abuse, or the risk of it. All parts of the definition need to apply.194 Disability: is defined, in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, as: Audism: An attitude based on pathological thinking that results in a negative stigma toward anyone who does not hear; like racism or sexism, audism judges, labels, and limits individuals on the basis of whether a person hears and speaks... Audism reflects the medical view of deafness as a disability that must be fixed. It is rooted in the historical belief that deaf people were savages without language, equating language to humanity. Because many Deaf people grew up in hearing families who did not learn to sign, audism may be ingrained. Audists can be either hearing or deaf. This attitude can also be present among Deaf individuals.195 Disabled people: is the language disabled people in Aotearoa use to describe people disabled by social arrangements that are not designed to include diverse ways of living. Deaf: The capital “D” in “Deaf is used to denote a group of people who are deaf; who use New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) as their first or preferred language and who identify with the Deaf community. It also denotes a culturallinguistic group of people who share a common language (sign language) and identify with Deaf culture. Deaf culture is well documented in research and literature and includes distinct Deaf values, beliefs, traditions, behaviours, history, art, and humour. The small “d” in “deaf” is used to refer to people who have any degree of hearing loss and includes both people who identify with the Deaf community and those who do not, such as hard-of-hearing people. Being a member of the Deaf community is largely based on personal identity and choice and the degree of hearing loss is not a good indicator of membership of the Deaf community. … disability results from the interaction between persons with impairments and attitudinal and environmental barriers that hinders their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others.196 Instruments: is the generic word used to describe international human rights declarations, covenants and optional protocols. Learning disability: is a reduced intellectual ability and difficulty with everyday activities – for example household tasks, socialising or managing money – which affects someone for their whole life. People with a learning disability tend to take longer to learn and may need support to develop new skills, understand complicated information and interact with other people.197 NZSL: New Zealand sign language. This is one of the three official languages of Aotearoa. Protection: When applied to disabled people and tāngata whaikaha Māori, the concept of protection is often interpreted as paternalistic support, frequently denying people agency and choice, and replacing their own needs and wants with those imposed by others (for example, the difference between substituted decision-making Acting now for a violence and abuse free future 63