Children and adolescents account for a
disproportionate share of ocular injuries. The majority of these injuries are related to
unsupervised and dangerous activities.
These injuries can be devastating and a
significant cause of visual impairment in
most of these children.
When we look back in time we find that the beginnings of work for the disabled leading to better opportunities, more services and programmes were initiated in many cases either by the disabled themselves or by their families. Perhaps the best example of this is Louis Braille, the inventor of what is now come to […]
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.
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
Missing or defective body part, an amputated limb, paralysis after polio, restricted pulmonary capacity, diabetes, nearsightedness, mental retardation, limited hearing capacity, facial disfigurement or other abnormal condition.
Prevention is usually defined at three levels :
Primary Prevention – Action taken prior to the onset of the disease/disability, which
will remove the possibility that a disease/disability will occur.
Special pavement for disabled people by the Chennai Corporation’ reads the sign on a wall on Ranjit Road in Kotturpuram. Anbarasan, a person with physical disability, looks at the sign and laughs. Pointing to the condition of the footpath just below the sign, he assures this reporter that even a normal person would find it […]
Encouraging greater access to transport, including public transport modes, can substantially transform the livelihoods of disabled people themselves and their immediate families.
The discrimination faced by the physically disabled is humiliating and dehumanizing. Often times a person with physical disabilities is not addressed by sales persons
Locomotor disability: Means a person’s inability to execute distinctive activities associated with moving, both himself/herself and objects, from place to place, and such inability resulting from affliction of either bones, joints, muscles or nerves.