State Resource Training Centre
Under the National Programme for Rehabilitation of Persons with disabilities, the Office of the Special Commissioner for the Disabled, Chennai has established a State Resource cum Training Centre at K.K. Nagar.
List of Guidelines
Aids and Appliances
The Modern Training cum Production Workshop is located at C-22, Industrial Estate, Guindy, Chennai-32. This unit undertakes designing production and manufacturing of tricycles and wheel chairs.
Government Regional Braille Press
Government Regional Braille Press is functioning in the campus of the Government Higher Secondary School for the Blind, Poonamallee to supply Braille books for the visually handicapped students.
Special Training Scheme
Teachers of the special schools require special training. Special Educators are given training to teach visually handicapped, hearing impaired and mentally retarded by this Department.
Special Education Schemes
Special Education is provided to the disabled children through 25 Government Special Schools, 58 Aided Special Schools, 182 Unaided Special Schools and Municipal Schools.
Certificate of mental retardation for benefits and standard format
Locomotor disability is defined as a persons inability to execute distinctive activities associated with moving both himself and objects, from place to place and such inability resulting from affliction of musculoskeletal and/or nervous system.
Guidelines for Evaluation of Physical Impairment due to Cardiopulmonary
The assessing physician should be alert to the fact that patients who come for disability claims are likely to exaggerate their symptoms. In case of any doubt patients should be referred for detailed physiological evaluation.
Guidelines for Evaluation of Physical Impairments in Neurological conditions
The evaluation of a Short Statured person should be considered only when it is of disproportionate variety and is accompanied by an underlying pathological conditions, e.g., Achondroplasia,Chandrodysplasia Punctata, spondyloepiphysical dysplasia,mucopoly and acchrydosis, etc.
Guidelines for Evaluation of Permanent Physical Impairment of Trunk (Spine)
Permanent physical impairment due to neurological deficit in addition to spinal impairment should be added by combining formula. The local effects of the lesions of the spine can be conventionally divided into traumatic and non-traumatic.
Guidelines for Evaluation of permanent physical Impairment in Lower Limb
The measurement of loss of function in lower extremity is divided into two components: Mobility and standing components.A fracture of right hip joint bones may affect range of motion of the hip joint.