Diversity and Disability

Diversity and Disability

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Celebrate Life; Celebrate Diversity

We welcome you to the community page "Celebrating Disability", an online discussion forum where we introduce, discuss, debate as well as campaign and advocate various concepts, perspectives, paradigm shift, models and legal provisions that concern and impact persons with disabilities. The title Celebrating Disability emerges from one of the ideologies of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) to celebrate human diversity and that Disability is a part of human diversity.

This online community page aims at demystifying the stigma associated with disability and reinforces the paradigm shift experienced by persons with disabilities from the charity and medical model to the social and developmental model, a holistic development of the society where persons with disabilities are an integral and contributing part and not apart. It will also focus on discussions and debates with regard to legal frameworks that impact persons with disabilities rightfully as well as adversely. The context and connect of UNCRPD with most terminologies & concepts to be discussed in the forum goes without saying. The perspectives of different professionals and their work with persons with disabilities are to be dealt as well. Any requirement for a larger campaign or advocacy may also be analysed in due course of a discussion.

This community page "Diversity and Disability" will provide motivational stories and achievements by persons with disabilities on an equal basis with others, articles by expert persons with disabilities as well as professionals without disabilities on their work and perspective, the gaps in the legal framework and way forward to harmonise the same, strategies/models to implement UNCRPD at every level and a lot more, by way of public discussions, debates and other creative methodology on each article/story. In addition a webinar will be organised every quarterly to discuss the topic of the term. The topics may widely range from different provisions of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its connect with UNCRPD & vice versa, evolving concepts on disability, innovations pertaining to products, designs, services, infrastructure, information, communication and technology etc.

Supported by Vidya Sagar, Chennai

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Ameet Bhadrapur, 30 from Bengaluru suffers from 70 per cent hearing loss. But despite his lack of confidence over interaction with people, he is a working professional. I am partially hearing impaired with 70% hearing loss. I can hear some low frequency sounds. I am using behind the ear hearing aids for both the ears. With this I am able to hear most of the sounds. However my speech and pronunciation are not clear. Hence I lack confidence in interacting with others. When were you diagnosed? I…
A Father's Wish For Awareness And Inclusion Of Autism

A dad of a 25 year old adult on the autism spectrum, and a member of the SCAN support group, Chennai shares the challenges faced by his son, the techniques deployed to overcome these and enable him to be an independent young adult. #AutismDad Today my son is 25 years old, a MBA post graduate with work experience in Human resources from a reputed company. My son’s childhood days with autism Looking back it has been a roller coaster ride filled with challenges from the time my wife…
Are Dads Of Special Needs Children Getting More Involved in Parenting?

Gopinath Ramakrishnan, Co-Founder and Managing Trustee of Special Child Assistance Network (SCAN), a support group for families of special needs children, reflects on the involvement of Dads in parenting. When we started the parent support group Special Child Assistance Network (SCAN) in Chennai back in 2015, it was mostly a women and children group. Yes, there were a couple of us dads hanging around, but it was by and large comprised of, and driven by the moms. In fact, the WhatsApp…
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Anita Iyer Narayan, Founder and Managing Trustee of Ekansh Trust, Pune, shares her views on Adaptive Clothing as well as on the AD-DRESS NOW Project, a contest to sensitise the clothes designer as well as the manufacturer about the difficulties that people with disabilities face while dressing independently. Adaptive clothing is clothing specially designed for people with physical disabilities, the elderly, and the infirm who may experience difficulty dressing. It can be because they do not…
Sexuality Education for Children and Adolescents with Disabilities

In the second part of this series on Personal Safety and Sexuality Education for children and adolescents with disabilities, Dr. Sangeeta Saksena and Renu Singh of Enfold Trust focus on sexuality education for children and young individuals on the autism spectrum and those with Intellectual disabilities. They even discuss certain myths and concepts. Read the first part here We begin with a few common terms and concepts used in this article. Sexuality: Derived from Latin ‘secare’ meaning…
"Let's Make Happy Memories For Our Children With Special Needs"

Rohini Singh, mother of an 11 year old child with special needs, introspects on how sometimes parents themselves are guilty of not giving their children an opportunity to be loved and accepted the way they are. And yet again, an event has led me to think what we as parents of children with special needs demand from the rest of the world to do but not have it in us. Yes, I am talking about the words ‘acceptance, inclusion’. We ask the world to accept and include our children the way they are, to…
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Madhavi Latha Prathigudupu, who has been using a wheelchair since childhood due to polio linked paralysis, found a world of freedom when she started physiotherapy and yoga in water. Now she is in the forefront advocating aquatherapy to others disabled in the community. Could you tell us a little bit about yourself and your disability? I was born in a remote village in South India. I have a very loving and caring family. Today, whatever I am able to achieve in my life is mainly because of the…
He Is Like An Amex Card. We Never Leave Home Without Him.

Dr Renuka Nambiar, based in Malaysia talks about her son Sanjeev, who was diagnosed with Autism when he was 4 years old. She talks about all the love and effort the family put together to make Sanjeev a person of his own today. Please tell us a bit about your son’s condition: Sanjeev was born in 1994. He was diagnosed Autistic with comorbid Epilepsy when he was 4 years old. What were the early symptoms? He was a normally developing child who reached all his developmental milestones on time,…
I Am Here Because Of Your Love, Maa

Vineet Saraiwala, Inclusion Lead, Future Retail Limited, pays an emotional tribute to his mother, a mother of two sons with Retinitis Pigmentosa. A Mother's Day Special. It was my mother’s destiny to have two sons, both with retinitis pigmentosa (RP), a degenerative disease in which vision deteriorates as age progresses. We, my brother and I, are glad that we are not alone in this journey as our mother is equally there in our struggles for the past 25 years. But we never noticed it. My mother’s…

Disability

I would like to know from Smt. Chitra Paul, who has written an article in your page, if she thinks that the representation of disability in children's literature as positive. It will be very helpful for my research if I get a reply from her. Thanks…

Support and Occupational Therapist in Patiala

Received a request for an OT in Patiala for a 2 year old child with Cerebral Palsy. Any suggestions, recommendations would be welcome Family currently going to PGI Chandigarh for doctor visits thanks

Evolving personalities by Persons with Disabilities

People tend to develop their personalities from the different things that they get to know and do in their lives, which may also have an impact from time to time. People develop their personalities at all ages and it is a constant shift for every…

Please support VaccesS, a 2 Day Expo at Vidya Sagar, Chennai

Vidya Sagar (Formerly, The Spastics Society of India), a 30 year old non-profit organisation working with persons with disabilities , is conducting a 2 Day Expo titled "VaccesS" @ Vidya Sagar, #1, Ranjith Road, Kotturpuram, Chennai - 600…

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