Glossary of Disability Terms
Glossary of Disability Terms
List of
Tourism for People with Disabilities
Every PWD has a right to live with dignity and grace. He also has the right to move out independently with least assistance.
Disabled Peoples International
Disabled Peoples’ International is an International cross-disability network of 135 national assembly’s (member organizations) of persons with disabilities.
Sense International
Sense International works in the developing world to help people who are both deaf and blind to live full and active lives.
National Association of Blind (NAB)
To empower the blind with education and training, towards self-sufficiency through employment or self-employment and thereby integrate them with dignity into the mainstream of society.
Research Centers
The institute occupies 43 acres on the Mussoorie-Dehradun Highway. Autonomous in nature, it is considered to be the largest of its kind in Asia.
Implement the UNCRPD
India has ratified the UN Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, but done very little to protect the rights of the disabled in accordance with it.
Awards 2009-10
We have just announced the CavinKare ABILITY Awards for 2009-2010.
Awards
Award for Outstanding Leprosy Work, Dr R Ganapati, Director,
Challenges Vs Responses
A vast majority of disabled children are not getting appropriate education and the existing coverage is very poor.