“I was invited to Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation for an interview and after a conversation with the Director General, I was asked to begin training as a presenter. I overheard a conversation between the DG and another staff personnel at SLBC, where the latter commented ‘she can become a teacher at the blind school instead’, to which the DG replied ‘why should she be confined in her opportunities just because she is blind’”, narrates BisoManike Grero, who currently works as a counselor at the low vision unit of the Eye Hospital in Kandy. BisoManike’s experience illustrates the long-standing prejudices about persons with disabilities held by larger society in Sri Lanka. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities identifies that disability is caused by society – in the way infrastructure is organized and built and by the attitudes held by society about persons with disabilities. Therefore, an impairment of an individual would become a ‘disability’ when the impairment meets with social attitudes and built environment.