NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION OF KOREA Submission to the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – July 2022 discussed, causing concern from the disability community. ㅇ In terms of the procedure and determination methods of the comprehensive service support survey, criticism has been raised that the screening process is insulting as during the final examination, the disabled person has to prove their disabilities and incompetence if an objection is raised against the results of the judgement. ㅇ As such, as long as the disability concept and registration and screening process based on a medical model continue, it is difficult to completely move away from the method which provides uniform quantity and quality of service according to medical standards. ㅇ In addition, improvement is needed as people with various diseases who have significant restrictions in their daily lives to the extent that disability determination is possible are excluded from disability registration and put in a blind spot of welfare services as seen in the rejection of disability registration application of a patient with Tourette Syndrome.2 □ Recommendations ㅇ Since Korea is the only country that maintains the disability classification and registration system based entirely on medical standards, it should abolish those systems in line with international trends and move towards a direction that provides customized service by adding criteria for evaluating personal and environmental factors such as lack of power or resources needed for self-reliance in addition to comprehensive service support survey that measures the degree of social functioning. ㅇ Evaluation item on restriction of social function should be reorganized so that the comprehensive service support survey sufficiently considers the difference between types of disabilities, and the screening process and delivery system should be supplemented so that they do not operate in a way where persons with disabilities endure insult to receive support services. 7