Education Programmes For Children With Special Needs
The community at large is often unaware of the potential of children with special needs. In the popular mind, special needs are usually identified with very low expectations.
List of Schemes
List of Schemes for Persons with Disabilities from Government of India / State Government and Private Organization with accessibility features
Human Rights and Differently-Abled Persons
Human Rights are universal, and civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights belong to all human beings, including differently-abled persons. Differently-abled persons
Free Software to monitor the growth of children from 5-19 years
WHO’s AnthroPlus is a software for the global application of the WHO Reference 2007 for 5-19 years to monitor the growth of school-age children and adolescents.
RTI Guide for Differently abled people
The RTI guide has been designed especially for use by parents of disabled children, caregivers, students, development professionals or any concerned individual involved with disability.
Differently Abled People Accessible Tours
Traveling in India for the physically challenged is not easy. India is slowly gearing up for making provisions for the physically handicapped or wheel chair bound traveler.
Tamil Nadu Govt. Schemes
Tamil Nadu Govt. Schemes for differently abled Persons – Identification, Special Education, Early Intervention, Training and Employment, 3% Reservation in educational institutions and in employment, Assistive devices for differently abled persons, Maintenance allowance, Marriage assistance and Social Security Schemes
Challenges Vs Responses
A vast majority of disabled children are not getting appropriate education and the existing coverage is very poor.
To ensure that disability is given it’s due in the upcoming Union Budget.
The Union Budget for 2010-2011 is just around the corner and disability groups are stepping up the pressure to ensure that this time around disability issues are not sidelined, just like the Union and Rail Budgets last year.
Reservation & Identified jobs
As per Allocation of Business Rules, 1961, reservation of posts in the Govt., for certain classes of citizens is the concern of Department of Personnel & Training (DOPT). For consolidated instructions on the subject of reservation to persons with disabilities, issued by DOPT vide No. 36035/3/2004-Estt(Res) Dated December 29, 2005, View Complete details about Reservation to the Persons with Disabilities (External website that opens in a new window).
Policy & Guidelines
National Policy For Persons with Disabilities
* National Policy for Persons with Disabilities has been announced in February, 2006. You can have access to English & Hindi Version.Campus2
* The National Policy recognizes that Persons with Disabilities are valuable human resource for the country and seeks to create an environment that provides them equal opportunities, protection of their rights and full participation in society. The focus of the policy is on (a) Prevention of Disabilities and (b) Rehabilitation Measures.