Problems of Disabled People
Contents: 1. Persons with disabilities and welfare services/Bindeshwar Pathak. 2. Special education and training for people with disability/Thakur V. Hari Prasad. 3. Sustainable development and mainstreaming of the disabled child/Shambhu Nath Jajodia. 4. Persons with disabilities and their rights/R.K. Bhattacharya. 5. The problem of hearing defect: a socio-psychological approach/Lal Mohan Ghosh. 6. Disabilities and human value/Nikhil Barat. 7. Development of values and policy towards persons with disabilities/Amalendu De. 8. Understanding hearing disability for sustainable development and rehabilitation/A.K. Sinha. 9. Persons with disability and process of normalisation/Sony C. Gill. 10. Creating friendly work environment for the employees with disabilities/Onkar Sharma (Aifd). 11. Challenge of Advocacy and empowerment/Chitra Ghosh. 12. NGO\'s and people with disabilities/Leena Chatterjee. 13. Disability certificate- an advantage or disadvantage/Jaganmoy Banerjee. 14. Attitude towards the disabled persons/Ashoke Chowdhury. 15. Status of disabled in Bangladesh/Nurul Islam. 16. Mental disability: problems and current approaches to rehabilitation/A.N. Singh. 17. The national policy on disability with emphasis on rural India/Haramohan Sinha. 18. Civil society and mentally sub-normal children/Manjumohan Mukherjee. 19. Community based rehabilitation approach/J.K. Sengupta. 20. Sustainable development and community based rehabilitation/Sarbani Sen. 21. "Opportunities can prove their abilities"/Nita Biswas. 22. Developing values towards persons with disabilities/Lalit Kumar Majumdar. 23. Intervention strategies for community worker/Dipak Mitra. 24. Welfare facilities for person with disability. 25. The National Trust for the welfare of persons with autism, Cerebral palsy, menal retradation and Multiple Disabilities Act, 1999. 26. The persons with disabilities (equal opportunities, protection of rights and full participation) Act, 1995. 27. Rehabilitation Council of India Act 1992. 28. Employees\' State Insurance Act, 1948 [34 of 1948, dt. 19-4-1948]. 29. The Workmen\'s Compensation Act, 1923 (Act No. 8 of 1923). Bibliography.
"Social work and disability is an analysis of the concept of normalizing person with disability. The book offer the concept of disability, identified concern of policy maker, welfare administrators, parents and family members of disabled, community worker working with government and non-government organizations. This volume presents a selected collection of articles written by professional experts working in the field of disability. Some of the contributors are suffering from disability and a few of them are the family members of disabled. Contributors of this volume include reputed academicians. This book is useful for social workers, nurses, doctors, lawyers, sociologist, social scientists, parents, caregivers and family members of disabled.
Most of disabled people, today live in the home along with their family members, many of them who had no experience of managing their life. Majority of person with disability are not aware of their rights and welfare programmes. This book is helpful to answer all the questions to provide the disabled to ensure that they may approach benefits that are available for them. The book has been written in simple language and very easy to understand." (jacket)
