This document discusses people with disabilities from several perspectives. It defines disability according to the WHO and UN as long-term physical, mental or sensory impairments that hinder full participation in society. Disabilities include physical, intellectual, psychiatric, visual and hearing impairments. The document also outlines services, problems faced, prevention efforts, relevant organizations and laws related to people with disabilities.

1. A PERSON
WITH
DISABILITIES
By
Rasique P

2. According toWHO
■ Disability is an umbrella term covering impairments activity limitations and
participation restrictions.
■ Disability is not a health problem. it is a complex phenomena. Reflecting the
interaction between features of a persons body and failure of the society in which
he/she live.

3. A PERSONWITH DISABILITY
■ According to U.N 2006
Person with disabilities have long term physical mental
intellectual or sensory impairments which in interaction with in various barriers hinder
their full and effective expectations in society on an equal basis with others.
 According to Herr and Cramer, 1996
One who usually considered to be different from a normal person physically
physiologically neurologically or psychologically because of accidents disease birth defect
or developmental problem.

4. According toWHO
A person with disabilities means a person suffering from not less than 40 % of any disability
as certified by a medical authority like
• Blindness
• Low vision
• Leprosy
• Hearing impairment
• Loco motor disability
• Mental retardation
• Mental illness
• Physical disability
• Learning disability

5. International Day Of PersonWith
Disability
“TRANSFORMATIONTOWARDSSUSTAINABLEAND
RESILIENTSOCIETYFORALL”

6. Aim OfThe Day Observation
■ It started on 1992
■ It aims to promote the rights and well being of the person with disabilities in all
spheres of society and development and to increase awareness of the situations of
person with disabilities in every aspect of environment social political and cultural life.

7. According to American with disability
act (1970)
■ Many social barriors have been removed.
■ Also realized there is more work that needs to be done for people with disability like:-
1. Safety
2. School
3. Transitions
4. Healthy living
5. Acceptance

8. Role of social worker in the field of
disabled
1. Giving awareness to teachers parents and publics.
2. Individual and family counselling.
3. Providing psychosocial support.
4. Conducting case studies, case works, group works and community organization for their
improvement.
5. Arrangement of rehabilitation those who want.
6. Strengthening legislation on this field.
7. To enable them to self sufficient.
8. To help for improve quality of life.
9. To encourage public for welfare of disable.
10. To bring social support and to remove social stigma towards disability.

9. Services given for the disabled
1. Providing appliances.
2. Providing trainings for their improvements.
3. Self employment.
4. Integration of disables from home to school.
5. Providing formal informal education
6. Providing clinical services.
7. Providing therapies and excersices.

10. Problems of disabled person
 Education Less socialization
■ Psychological problems Finding a suitable couple
■ Lack of security Feeling isolation
■ Lack of confidence
■ Treating society as worthless
■ Withdrawal from social contacts.
■ Lack of acceptance
■ Increased dependence on others
■ Rejecting from the family

12. Types of disability
■ Physical disability
A person with physical disability may need to use of some equipment for assistance with
mobility. It also includes people who have lost limps or who because of shape of their body.
e.g. :- Polio
Absent limp
 Intellectual or learning disability.
People with an intellectual learning or cognitive disability have a reduced capacity to learn task
or process information. A learning disability may make it difficult for a person to take
information and communicate.it make difficulty to reading writing calculations etc.
e.g.:- Dyslexia
Dyscalculia
Dysgraphia

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■ Psychiatric disabilities
A psychiatric disability can develop at any age and is often not apparent
to other people. It is most misunderstood disabilities in the community and peoples
attitudes may be based on prejudice and myth.
e.g.;- Schizophrenia
depression
 Visual impairment
Any kind of vision loss.
eg:- River blindness
presbiopia

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■ Hearing disability
Any type of issue while hearing voice. It can caused by a wide range of factors including
physical damage disease during pregnancy etc.
e.g.;- Sensorineural hearing loss
Auditory processing disorder
 Neurological disability
It is associated with damage of the nervous system that result in the lose of some physical or
mental function.
E.g.:- Epilepsy
Parkinson's disease

15. Disability prevention
■ Disability prevention relates to all level of prevention
– 1. Reducing the occurrence of impairment.
– 2. Disability limitation by appropriate treatment.
– 3. preventing the transition of disability into handicap.

16. NGO’SWORKING FOR DISABLED
■ Disability advocacy service hunter.
■ European disability forum
■ UNISON
■ Australian Federation of disability organization
■ The national association of disabled’s enterprises.

17. Welfare programme for disabled
■ Deen dayal rehabilitation scheme.
■ National award for people with disabilities.
■ Assistance to disabled persons for purchase

18. Acts for the protection of disabled
■ The person with disabilities act , 1995.
■ The mental health act, 1987
■ The rehabilitationCouncil of India act, 1992
■ The national trust for welfare of persons with autism, cerebral palsy, mental
retardation and multiple disabilities act, 1999