National Institute for Empowerment of Persons with Multiple Disabilities (NIEPMD) is established at Muttukadu, Chennai, Tamil Nadu,to fulfill the objective of serving as a National Resource Centre for Empowerment of Persons with Multiple Disabilities
Despite enacting landmark legislation to promote the rights of people with disability in the past decade and an increasing awareness of their marginalization, India’s actions to promote the rights of eight percent of its citizens has been found wanting, a World Bank report says.
Flipping through the newspaper one fine morning, a not-so-unusual news caught my attention. The heading goes like this, “Private Airline offloads wheelchair-bound man”. Digging deeper into the main body of the news, t
Psychologists study the human mind and human behavior. Psychologists investigate the physical, cognitive, emotional, or social aspects of human behavior. Clinical psychologists often interview patients and give diagnostic tests.
Rehabilitation Science is a study of scientific measures for training, education and therapeutic management to persons with disabilities to restore their physical, mental, emotional, social and vocational usefulness as per their capabilities
The disability rights movements in India have achieved laudable goals on various fronts, but its greatest drawback has been neglect of the rights of persons with mental illness. The Government of India has passed two acts, Mental Health Act 1987 and Persons
India, a sleeping giant is now waking up. Waking up to a more evolved society with a changing mindset, growing infrastructure, more reach to technology and a greater impetus to education. Waking up to bridge the barriers which hinder the evolution of about sixty million disabled Indians to the so called normal Indians.
Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) for the differently-abled people is an integrated programme component of CORD which works toward
Patients with locomotor / orthopaedic disabilities due to various ailments like poliomyelitis, Cerebral Palsy, Congenital Deformities, Leprosy, Burn contracture, Paraplegia, Hemiplegia etc.
Is being established at Muttukadu, Kancheepuram district, Tamil Nadu, (about 30 km from Chennai Central railway station, Mofussil bus terminus and airport) to fulfill the objective of serving as a national resource center for empowerment of persons with Multiple Disabilities such as those with