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Learning Disabilities in Children

Learning Disabilities in Children

If you think your child might have a learning disability, you may feel overwhelmed by the information, the numerous tests, and the lack of clarity about how to get the best help for your child. What you need is a roadmap for sifting through the information and finding the valuable support that is available.

Disability inclusion – Everyone’s Right to be Included

Disability inclusion – Everyone’s Right to be Included

Worldwide, one in six people, or around one billion, live with a disability. A majority of people with disabilities often feel excluded at school, from public services, and in the world of work. In this video, women and men with and without disabilities explain what disability inclusion is, why it’s important and how to make it happen.

Disability Bill stuck in the charity model – Annie Koshi

Disability Bill stuck in the charity model – Annie Koshi

It has been said often enough but let it be said again. The conversion of difference into disability is as much man-made as the consequences of droughts and floods. It is in our attitudes and laws; it is in our thinking and actions that we put up barriers that create disability.

Spinal cord injury

Spinal cord injury

Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a damage to the spinal cord, which causes neurological impairments (paralysys, loss of sensation or both) down the site of injury.

Models of Disability in society

Models of Disability in society

The medical model is presented as viewing disability as a problem of the person, directly caused by disease, trauma, or other health condition which therefore requires sustained medical care provided in the form of individual treatment by professionals. In the medical model, management of the disability is aimed at a “cure,” or the individual’s adjustment and behavioral change that would lead to an “almost-cure” or effective cure. In the medical model, medical care is viewed as the main issue, and at the political level, the principal response is that of modifying or reforming healthcare policy.

World report on disability

World report on disability

The first ever World report on disability, produced jointly by WHO and the World Bank, suggests that more than a billion people in the world today experience disability. People with disabilities have generally poorer health, lower education achievements, fewer economic opportunities and higher rates of poverty than people without disabilities.

Disability or Disabling Environment – Mr.M.Madhizhagan

Disability or Disabling Environment – Mr.M.Madhizhagan

… I ran around as I played as a child,hopping and dancing with children in the neighbourhood. One day I realised that something was wrong; my family members and neighbours were not the same. Some were worried and some did not want to be with me. No play…. It seemed that everybody was looking at me differently.